Angelo Bruni, Luigi Colecchia, Elton Dajti, Giovanni Barbara, Francesco Azzaroli
{"title":"New practice guidelines on risk stratification and management of portal hypertension: towards a personalized multidisciplinary approach.","authors":"Angelo Bruni, Luigi Colecchia, Elton Dajti, Giovanni Barbara, Francesco Azzaroli","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-2024-703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-2024-703","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"282-285"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057493/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144006081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advancing prognostic models in salvage liver transplantation.","authors":"Prema Raj Jeyaraj, Brian K P Goh","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-2025-29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-2025-29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"332-336"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057509/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144017231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graft-to-recipient weight ratio: a timeless standard still shaping outcomes.","authors":"Toshihiro Nakayama, Kazunari Sasaki","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-2024-766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-2024-766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"295-297"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057494/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143983356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intraoperative blood loss in perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: should we aim below a certain cut-off?","authors":"Pim B Olthof, Bas Groot Koerkamp","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-2024-677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-2024-677","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"279-281"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057500/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143967531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kun He, Qingyang Zhou, Yabing Wang, Congwei Jia, Dong Wu
{"title":"The first reported death of iNKLPD-GI: rethinking \"watch and wait\" strategy.","authors":"Kun He, Qingyang Zhou, Yabing Wang, Congwei Jia, Dong Wu","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-2024-737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-2024-737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"355-357"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057516/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143976336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ivan Vella, Fabrizio di Francesco, Sergio Li Petri, Duilo Pagano, Caterina Accardo, Giuseppe Mamone, Sergio Calamia, Salvatore Gruttadauria
{"title":"Benchmark center volume and regional disparity in living donor liver transplantation.","authors":"Ivan Vella, Fabrizio di Francesco, Sergio Li Petri, Duilo Pagano, Caterina Accardo, Giuseppe Mamone, Sergio Calamia, Salvatore Gruttadauria","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-2024-712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-2024-712","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"286-289"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057510/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143999138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A practical approach for the diagnosis and management of pancreatic cystic lesions-the Hong Kong consensus recommendations.","authors":"Arjun Chatterjee, Rajat Garg, Prabhleen Chahal","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-2025-69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-2025-69","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"337-341"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057511/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144002867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chen-Hao Gao, Lin Ping Cao, Shu-Qun Cheng, Lei Wang, Ji-Zhou Wang, Mao-Lin Yan, Shu-Sen Zheng, Zhe Yang
{"title":"Radiologic complete response after conversion therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: is liver transplantation necessary?","authors":"Chen-Hao Gao, Lin Ping Cao, Shu-Qun Cheng, Lei Wang, Ji-Zhou Wang, Mao-Lin Yan, Shu-Sen Zheng, Zhe Yang","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-2024-702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-2024-702","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"351-354"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057504/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143997780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National impact and advantages of the robotic approach to liver surgery in the era of minimally invasive surgery.","authors":"Antoine Rouault, Yasmina Richa, Stéphanie Truant","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-2025-94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-2025-94","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"275-278"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057515/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144017239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Short- and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic versus open resection of perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: a propensity score-based analysis.","authors":"Zhi-Peng Liu, Yue Wang, Yu Pan, Xiao-Lin Zhao, Long-Fei Chen, Xue-Song Li, Xiao-Jun Wang, Jian-Wei Li, Xian-Yu Yin, Jie Bai, Yan-Qi Zhang, Hai-Su Dai, Zhi-Yu Chen, Shu-Guo Zheng","doi":"10.21037/hbsn-23-680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/hbsn-23-680","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Laparoscopic resection (LR) of perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (pCCA) is still in the exploratory stage due to its exacting technical requirements, and its feasibility remains controversial. The objective of this study was to compare the short- and long-term outcomes of LR and open resection (OR) of pCCA.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study analyzed the data of pCCA patients who underwent LR or OR from January 2012 to January 2020 at Southwest Hospital. Inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) and propensity score matching (PSM) were used to balance the baseline characteristics between the LR and OR groups. The short- and long-term outcomes were compared between the LR and OR groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Forty-five patients in the LR group and 243 in the OR group were analyzed. After IPTW and PSM, the amount of intraoperative blood loss, incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs), length of stay (LOS), and number of perioperative blood transfusions (PBTs) were significantly lower in the LR group than in the OR group (after IPTW: P<0.001, P=0.009, P=0.01, P<0.001 respectively; after PSM: P<0.001, P=0.003, P=0.03, P=0.04 respectively). Only after IPTW was the 30-day mortality rate significantly lower in the LR group than in the OR group (P=0.005). There was no significant difference in overall survival (OS) or recurrence-free survival (RFS) between the two groups after IPTW or PSM.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>LR of pCCA is an achievable procedure whose long-term outcomes are similar to those of OR, and LR outperforms OR in short-term outcomes such as intraoperative blood loss, SSI, LOS, 30-day mortality, and PBTs. It is believed that it is safe and feasible to treat pCCA with LR after rigorous patient selection.</p>","PeriodicalId":12878,"journal":{"name":"Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition","volume":"14 2","pages":"207-221"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12057507/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144008674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}