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Hepatocellular carcinoma: the high-risk patientNicholas N Nissen
Multi Organ Transplant Program, and the Liver Transplant Program, Centers for Liver and Kidney Diseases and Transplantation Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
J Clin Gastroenterol 35:S79-85. 2002..Other novel chemopreventative agents, such as glycyrrhizin and polyprenoic acid, may also have a role in preventing HCC, but they require further study before they can be recommended for widespread use...- Emerging role of transplantation for primary liver cancersNicholas N Nissen
Center for Liver Diseases and Transplantation, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cancer J 10:88-96. 2004.... - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in a patient with a biventricular cardiac assist deviceNicholas N Nissen
Department of Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
JSLS 9:481-4. 2005..The unique aspects of the biventricular assist device patient make laparoscopic abdominal intervention particularly suitable in this patient population... - Choledocho-choledochostomy in deceased donor liver transplantationNicholas N Nissen
Comprehensive Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 13:810-3. 2009..This article describes the technique of choledocho-choledochostomy in deceased donor liver transplantation... - Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: presentation, management, and outcomesNicholas N Nissen
Department of Surgery, Center for Liver Diseases and Transplantation, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 8635 W 3rd Street, Suite 590W, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
Am Surg 75:1025-9. 2009..Pancreatic resection results in greater than 80 per cent 3-year survival in nonmetastatic pNET. In patients presenting with metastatic pNET, excellent survival rates are also achievable using a multidisciplinary multimodal approach... - Recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplant: identifying the high-risk patientNicholas N Nissen
Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
HPB (Oxford) 13:626-32. 2011..Recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after liver transplantation (LT) is rarely curable. However, in view of the advent of new treatments, it is critical that patients at high risk for recurrence are identified... - Diagnosis and management of pheochromocytoma in an academic hospital 3 years after formation of a pheochromocytoma interest groupRun Yu
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Endocr Pract 17:356-62. 2011..To examine whether establishment of a pheochromocytoma interest group improves diagnosis and management of pheochromocytoma in an academic hospital... - Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in glucagon receptor-deficient miceRun Yu
Division of Endocrinology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e23397. 2011..Our results further suggest that completely inhibiting glucagon signaling may not be a safe approach to treat diabetes... - Homozygous P86S mutation of the human glucagon receptor is associated with hyperglucagonemia, alpha cell hyperplasia, and islet cell tumorCuiqi Zhou
Division of Endocrinology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
Pancreas 38:941-6. 2009..The goal of the study was to investigate the genetic and molecular basis of a novel syndrome of marked hyperglucagonemia and pancreatic alpha cell hyperplasia without glucagonoma syndrome... - Hepatocellular carcinoma in a hepatitis C patient with sustained viral response and no fibrosisJames H Tabibian
Department of Internal Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ann Hepatol 8:64-7. 2009..This case raises question regarding the carcinogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma as a sequela of chronic hepatitis C in noncirrhotic liver and moreover after achieving sustained virological response... - Diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma in an academic hospital from 1997 to 2007Run Yu
Division of Endocrinology and Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif 90084, USA
Am J Med 122:85-95. 2009..We aimed to systemically study the diagnostic accuracy and treatment outcomes of pheochromocytoma and to reveal the causes and consequences of misdiagnosis (including both overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis)... - Video-microscopy for use in microsurgical aspects of complex hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery: a preliminary reportNicholas N Nissen
Department of Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
HPB (Oxford) 13:753-6. 2011..The aim of this report is to describe a simple system of video-microscopy for use in open surgery as an alternative to loupe magnification... - Percutaneous liver biopsy after living donor liver transplantation resulting in fulminant hepatic failure: the first reported case of hepatic compartment syndromeNicholas N Nissen
Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 8635 W 3rd Street 1060 W, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
J Transplant 2010:273578. 2010..The explant demonstrated ischemic necrosis of greater than 90% of the liver parenchyma. We report this case of "Hepatic Compartment Syndrome" leading to fulminant hepatic failure... - Ki-67 proliferative index predicts progression-free survival of patients with well-differentiated ileal neuroendocrine tumorsDeepti Dhall
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
Hum Pathol 43:489-95. 2012..In conclusion, the Ki-67 index predicts PFS of patients with ileal wNETs... - Living donor liver transplantation: histological abnormalities found on liver biopsies of apparently healthy potential donorsTram T Tran
Department of Medicine Gastroenterology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 21:381-3. 2006..In living donor liver transplantation, assessment of histological abnormalities that are undetectable by serological, biochemical and radiological methods might play an important role in donor and recipient outcome... - Pancreaticoduodenectomy after neoadjuvant therapy in a Jehovah's witness with locally advanced pancreatic cancer: case report and approach to avoid transfusionDavid Magner
Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
Am Surg 72:435-7. 2006..These strategies, once in place, may be able to reduce transfusions in all patients having major resections for malignancy... - Current surgical management of infected pancreatic necrosisBrendan Boland
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Am Surg 76:1096-9. 2010..Our results demonstrate that CG can be successfully used in select patients with IPN. Patients undergoing CG are less likely to require repeat surgical debridement and to develop pancreatic fistulae compared with patients undergoing DPD... - Completely laparoscopic nonanatomic hepatic resection using saline-cooled cautery and hydrodissectionNicholas N Nissen
Department of Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
Am Surg 73:987-90. 2007..This report demonstrates the feasibility of completely laparoscopic hepatic resection using novel devices for parenchymal transaction. Hand-assist techniques remain useful as a salvage strategy or for larger resections... - Nesidioblastosis and hyperplasia of alpha cells, microglucagonoma, and nonfunctioning islet cell tumor of the pancreas: review of the literatureRun Yu
Division of Endocrinology, Cedars Sinai Medical Cente, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
Pancreas 36:428-31. 2008..Nesidioblastosis and hyperplasia of alpha cells should be considered in the differential diagnosis of hyperglucagonemia. Somatostatin analog may be used to suppress glucagon secretion in alpha-cell hyperplasia... - Pheochromocytoma in patients suspected of harboring adrenal metastasis: management and clinical predictorsRun Yu
Division of Endocrinology and Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA
Endocr Pract 14:967-72. 2008..To study clinical management of patients with suspected adrenal metastasis and to assess whether there are clinical predictors of pheochromocytoma in this patient population... - Cavo-atrial tumor resection under total circulatory arrest without a sternotomyThomas Kleisli
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 81:1887-8. 2006..This minimal-access total circulatory approach has the potential to greatly diminish morbidity when managing tumors of the inferior vena cava...