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Background
Night shift work has been associated with adverse health outcomes. Whether night shift work is associated with cholelithiasis remains uncertain, and the roles of genetic risk and lifestyle factors in cholelithiasis risk are unclear.
Methods
We conducted a prospective analysis of 219,810 UK Biobank participants. Cox proportional hazards...
Distal cholangiocarcinoma is a rare and highly aggressive malignant tumor. The inherent tumor characteristics and growth pattern of cancer cells pose a challenge for diagnosis and treatment. Chemotherapy resistance leads to limited treatment options for patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma. However, drug resistance studies in cholangiocarcinom...
Background
Limited epidemiological evidence exists concerning the impact of healthy dietary patterns on reducing the risk of cholelithiasis. We aimed to examine the association of seven established dietary patterns with subsequent cholelithiasis risk and whether this association was modified by genetic risk.
Methods
We conducted a prospective coho...
Background: Night shift work has been linked to various adverse health outcomes, but its relationship with incident cholelithiasis remains unclear. This study aims to investigate the association between night shift work and the risk of cholelithiasis, assess the potential modifying effects of genetic susceptibility, and explore the mediating roles...
Fibrosis resulting from pathological repair secondary to recurrent or persistent tissue damage often leads to organ failure and mortality. Biliary fibrosis is a crucial but easily neglected pathological feature in hepatobiliary disorders, which may promote the development and progression of benign and malignant biliary diseases through pathological...
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a bile duct malignancy with a dismal prognosis. This study systematically investigated the role of the ribosomal protein S6 (RPS6) gene, which is dependent in CCA. We found that RPS6 upregulation in CCA tissues was correlated with a poor prognosis. Functional investigations have shown that alterations in RPS6 expression,...
Background
Early diagnosis of acute gallstone pancreatitis severity (GSP) is challenging in clinical practice. We aimed to investigate the efficacy of CT features and radiomics for the early prediction of acute GSP severity.
Methods
We retrospectively recruited GSP patients who underwent CT imaging within 48 h of admission from tertiary referral c...
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Roux-en-Y reconstruction is a common anastomosis technique during gastrectomy in gastric cancer. There is a lack of studies on gallstones after Roux-en-Y reconstruction gastrectomy. This study investigated the incidence and potential risk factors associated with gallstones after Roux-en-Y reconstructive gastrectomy in gastric cancer.
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Paracetamol induces hepatotoxicity and subsequent liver injury, which may increase the risk of liver cancer, but epidemiological evidence remains unclear. We conducted this study to evaluate the association between paracetamol use and the risk of liver cancer.
Methods
This prospective study included 464,244 participants free of cancer d...
Background: Recent studies have shown that bile acids are essential in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) pathology, and cholecystectomy has direct effects on bile acid metabolism. However, whether cholecystectomy increases the risk of IBS remains unclear. We aimed to investigate the association between cholecystectomy and IBS risk in the UK Biobank (U...
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a group of malignant heterogeneous cancer arising from the biliary tree. The tumor is characterized by insidious onset, high degree of malignancy, poor prognosis, and high recurrence rate. Immortalized cancer cell lines are the best and easiest models for in vitro cancer research. Here, we established a naturally immorta...
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Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma sarcoma is extremely rare in clinical practice. These cells consist of both epithelial and mesenchymal cells. Patient-derived cell lines that maintain tumor characteristics are valuable tools for studying the molecular mechanisms associated with carcinosarcoma. However, cholangiocarcinoma sarcoma cell line...
Background
Gut microbiome dysbiosis has been implicated in various gastrointestinal and extra-gastrointestinal diseases, but evidence on the efficacy and safety of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for therapeutic indications remains unclear.
Methods
The gutMDisorder database was used to summarize the associations between gut microbiome dysbi...
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a group of malignant heterogeneous cancer arising from the biliary tree. The tumor is characterized by insidious onset, high degree of malignancy, poor prognosis and high recurrence rate. Immortalized cancer cell lines are the best and easiest models for in vitro cancer research. Here, we established a naturally immortal...
Objective: To compare the safety and clinical efficacy of endoscopic and surgical treatment of patients with delayed iatrogenic bile duct injury (DBDI) with severity (SG) grade 1 to 2. Methods: The clinical data of 129 patients with SG grade 1 to 2 DBDI who received endoscopic or surgical treatment in the First Hospital of Lanzhou University from N...
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Although overnight fasting is recommended prior to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), the benefits and safety of high-carbohydrate fluid diet (CFD) intake 2 h before ERCP remain unclear. This study aimed to analyze whether high-CFD intake 2 h before ERCP can be safe and accelerate patients' recovery.
Methods:
This...
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are the most used acid-inhibitory drugs, with a wide range of applications in the treatment of various digestive diseases. However, recently, there has been a growing number of digestive complications linked to PPIs, and several studies have indicated that the intestinal flora play an important role in these complicati...
Background
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a group of malignant heterogeneous cancers arising from the biliary tree characterized by insidious onset, poor prognosis and high recurrence rate. Immortalized cancer cell lines are the best and easiest models for in vitro and in vivo cancer research.
Methods
CBC3T-1 was originated from a patient with hilar...
This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13046-020-01626-7.
Background
The occurrence of postoperative complications of distal cholangiocarcinoma (dCCA) is an indicator of poor patient prognosis. This study aimed to determine the immune-nutritional indexes (INIs) that can predict short-term postoperative complications.
Methods
A retrospective analysis of 148 patients with dCCA who were operated radical pan...
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Background
To assess the predictive value of radiomics for preoperative lymph node metastasis (LMN) in patients with biliary tract cancers (BTCs).
Methods
PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library databases, and four Chinese databases [VIP, CNKI, Wanfang, and China Biomedical Literature Database (CBM)] were searched to identify relevant stu...
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a malignant tumor that originates from bile duct’s epithelial cells and is usually characterized by insidious symptoms and poor prognosis. Cinobufotalin (CB), an active ingredient obtained from the Traditional Chinese Medicine ChanSu, is purported to exhibit a wide range of antitumorigenic activities. Howeve...
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Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is an established treatment for common bile duct (CBD) stones. Post- ERCP cholecystitis (PEC) is a known complication of such procedure and there are no effective models and clinical applicable tools for PEC prediction.
Methods
A random forest (RF) machine learning model was develope...
Background:
Most of study regarding periampullary diverticulum (PAD) impact on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) therapy for choledocholithiasis based on data from one endoscopy center and lacked to compare the clinical characteristic of choledocholithiasis with PAD from different geographical patients.
Aim:
To compare the ch...
Background: Gastric acid suppressants have a major impact on gut microbiome which in turn, may increase the risk of cholelithiasis, but epidemiological evidence remains unclear. We undertook this research to evaluate the association between regular use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and H2-receptor antagonists (H2RAs) with risk of cholelithiasis....
Elevated serum uric acid (SUA) levels have been previously reported to play a role in multiple types of cancers. However, epidemiological studies evaluating SUA levels and colorectal cancer risk remain sparse. This cohort study included 444 462 participants between the ages of 40 and 69 years from the UK Biobank, followed up from 2006 to 2010. Mult...
Background:
A previous study showed that irrigation with 100 mL saline reduced residual common bile duct (CBD) stones, which potentially cause recurrent stones after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.
Aim:
To determine whether saline irrigation can improve CBD clearance after lithotripsy.
Methods:
This prospective self-controlled...
Background
Gallbladder drainage plays a key role in the management of acute cholecystitis (AC) patients. Percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) is commonly used while endoscopic naso-gallbladder drainage (ENGBD) serves as an alternative.
Methods
A single center, prospective randomized controlled trial was performed. Eligible AC pat...
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Transfer of noncoding microRNAs (miRNAs) by extracellular vesicles (EVs) promotes the development of chemoresistance in many tumor types. Additionally, restoration or depletion of several miRNAs has been observed in multiple cancer types including gastric cancer (GC). In this present study, we aimed to investigate the mechanism of miR-...
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Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism. Previous studies have found that serum uric acid (SUA) levels are associated with the total cancer risk. However, due to the dual effect of uric acid on cancer, the relationship between the SUA levels and most specific-site cancer remains unclear.
Aim:
To investigate the associations...
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a rare tumor that arises from cholangiocytes, the epithelial cells of the bile duct. The tumor is characterized by insidious onset, high degree of malignancy, poor prognosis and high recurrence rate. Due to the lack of specific biomarkers, it is difficult to diagnose CCA early and evaluate prognosis. Extracellular vesicl...
Background Lack of forward-viewing endoscopy experience impairs training in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). We evaluated the effect of ERCP mechanical simulator (EMS) practice on ERCP performance by surgical trainees.
Patients and methods 12 surgical trainees without endoscopy experience were randomly allocated to non-EMS (n...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a heterogeneous malignancy, which is a major cause of cancer morbidity and mortality worldwide. Thus, the aim of the present study was to identify the hub genes and underlying pathways of HCC via bioinformatics analyses. The present study screened three datasets, including GSE112790, GSE84402 and GSE74656 from the...
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Chronic hepatitis B virus infection remains a major global public health problem. Peginterferon-alpha-2a (PEG-IFN) has direct antiviral and immunoregulatory effects, and it has become one of the first choice drugs for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Cytokines play an important role in immunity, and they directly inhibit vir...
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Different types of periampullary diverticulum (PAD) may differentially affect the success of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) cannulation, but the clinical significance of the two current PAD classifications for cannulation is limited.
Aim:
To verify the clinical value of our newly proposed PAD classification.
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Background:
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is an invasive malignancy arising from biliary epithelial cells; it is the most common primary tumour of the bile tract and has a poor prognosis. The aim of this study was to screen prognostic biomarkers for CCA by integrated multiomics analysis.
Methods:
The GSE32225 dataset was derived from the Gene Express...
Research conclusions differ on the impact of periampullary diverticulum (PAD) on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). An up-to-date meta-analysis evaluated the role of PAD in ERCP, especially in terms of cannulation failure and early complications. A comprehensive literature search was performed. All statistical analyses were carr...
Background
Cholangiocarcinoma(CCA)is an invasive malignancy arising from biliary epithelial cells; it is the most common primary tumour of the bile tract and has a poor prognosis. The aim of this study was to screen prognostic biomarkers for CCA by integrated multiomics analysis.
Methods
The GSE32225 dataset was derived from the Gene Expression Omn...
Background and study aims Preoperative biliary drainage of hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HC) is controversial. The goal of this study was to compare the clinical outcome and associated complications for types II, III, and IV HC managed by percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
Patie...
Introduction:
Transitional drainage, which is followed by cholecystectomy plays a key role in the management of acute cholecystitis, especially in high-risk surgical patients. Endoscopic naso-gallbladder drainage (ENGBD) is an alternative to percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) for patients who need temporary drainage. There is a...
Background Transitional drainage which is followed by cholecystectomy plays a key role in the management of acute cholecystitis, especially in high-risk surgical patients. Endoscopic naso-gallbladder drainage (ENGBD) is an alternative to percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) for patients who need temporary drainage. There is a lack...
Hepatobiliary cancers have poor prognosis due to their high level of invasiveness, distant metastasis, and chemotherapy resistance. Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common type of hepatobiliary cancers representing the fourth leading cause of cancer death worldwide. There is an urgent need to identify the molecular drivers of hepatobiliary canc...
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Endoscopic sphincterotomy is the established treatment for common bile duct stones. Balloon dilation offers an alternative. Prolonged dilation (300 s) with a 10 mm diameter balloon decreases the occurrence of pancreatitis after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). We aimed to determine the optimal duration of dilation...
It has been revealed by our previous proteomic study that the expression profile is different between well‑differentiated and poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Among those differently expressed proteins, peroxire-doxin2 (PRDX2) was our protein of interest. The present study aimed to further investigate the value of PRDX2 as a pr...
Curcumol is the major component extracted from root of Rhizoma Curcumae. Recent studies have shown that curcumol exerts therapeutic effects against multiple conditions, particularly cancers. However, the therapeutic role and mechanism of curcumol against cholangiocarcinoma cells are still unclear. In our current research, we tested the effect of cu...
Histological differentiation is a major pathological criterion indicating the risk of tumor invasion and metastasis in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. The degree of tumor differentiation is controlled by a complex interacting network of associated proteins. The principal aim of the present study is to identify the possible differentiation-r...
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Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) has many applications across various disciplines. This oncofetal protein is routinely used by clinicians for antenatal testing as well for the screening and treatment monitoring of certain malignances. Innovative research using AFP has also been very promising. Recent developments include the use of AFP or...
Human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third most common cause of cancer-related death. Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is perhaps the best-defined tumor marker for HCC, and as such, it is widely used in clinical settings as an adjuvant diagnostic and prognostic tool. Up to 70% of HCC cases exhibit elevated serum level of AFP, but its pathophysiologic...
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Human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third most common cause of cancerrelated death. Various aberrantly regulated signaling pathways, including the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway and the RAF/MEK/ERK pathway, have been reported in HCC, and these pathways may serve as a paragon target for HCC therapy and prevention. With this connection, the multikinas...
Gastric cancer is one of the most common cancers of digestive system globally and Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection is believed to be a major risk factor. HP can be classified into different types based on the presence and expression level of CagA and VacA, and, when exposed to adverse environment, HP changes its phenotype from helical type to coc...
