[Resection of liver metastases in patients with extrahepatic disease]Jose M Ramia
Unidad de Cirugía Hepatobiliopancreática, Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Espana
Cir Esp 90:483-9. 2012
..The use of chemotherapy prior to the surgery is recommended to operate stable patients, or who respond to the chemotherapy and not in progression...
Walled-off pancreatic necrosisJ M Ramia
Hepato Pancreato Biliary Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital of Guadalajar, Guadalajara, Spain
Neth J Med 70:168-71. 2012
..We present here an overview of the definition, clinical features, and diagnostic and therapeutic management of this clinical condition, which is mostly based on consensus as adequate clinical trials are lacking...
- Cysto-biliary communication in liver hydatidosis
J M Ramia
Hepato Bilio Pancreatic Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery, Guadalajara University Hospital, Guadalajara, Spain
Langenbecks Arch Surg 397:881-7. 2012
..Liver hydatidosis can provoke many complications (abscess, fistula to adjacent organs, migration, etc.), but the most frequent and one of the most severe complication is the communication between the cyst and the biliary tree...
Ambispective comparative study of two surgical strategies for liver hydatidosisJose M Ramia
Department of Surgery, Hepato Bilio Pancreatic Surgery Unit, Guadalajara University Hospital, Guadalajara 19002, Spain
World J Gastroenterol 18:546-50. 2012
..To investigate the morbidity, mortality, recurrence and technical aspects of two distinct surgical strategies that were implemented in successive periods...
- Gallbladder tuberculosis: false-positive PET diagnosis of gallbladder cancer
J M Ramia
Unidad de Cirugía Hepatobiliopancreática y Trasplante Hepático, Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Granada, Spain
World J Gastroenterol 12:6559-60. 2006
..We present a new case of a patient who underwent surgery with the preoperative diagnosis of gallbladder cancer after a false positive positron emission tomography scan in the diagnostic work-up...
- [Primary small bowel lymphoma]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Santa Barbara, Puertollano, Ciudad Real, Espana
Cir Esp 81:46-8. 2007
..Different combinations of chemotherapy were administered. Only the patient with T-cell lymphoma died due to disease progression. Clinical aspects and the therapeutic strategy used in these tumors are discussed...
- [Mirizzi syndrome and gallbladder cancer]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Unidad de Cirugía Hepatobiliopancreática y Trasplante Hepático, Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Espana
Cir Esp 81:105-6. 2007
..We present two patients with MS type II and gallbladder cancer (stages T4N1M0 and T3NxMx). The etiopathogenic mechanisms, diagnostic methods and therapeutic options are discussed...
- [Ménétrier's disease and gastric cancer]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Santa Barbara, Puertollano, Ciudad Real, Espana
Cir Esp 81:153-4. 2007
..We provide an update on the optimal therapeutic approach, which has not been clearly defined to date...
- [Xiphoid metastasis from duodenal cancer]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Unidad de Cirugía Hepatobiliopancreática y Trasplante Hepático, Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Madrid, Espana
Cir Esp 81:282-3. 2007
..We discuss the utility of positron emission tomography in the diagnosis of this entity and the therapeutic options...
- Multicentre study of liver metastases from colorectal cancer in pathological livers
Jose M Ramia
Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary HPB Surgery, Guadalajara University Hospital, Guadalajara, Spain
HPB (Oxford) 13:320-3. 2011
..The aim of this study was to perform a multicentre, retrospective analysis of epidemiology, surgical techniques and outcomes in patients with PL who underwent hepatic resection for CRC-LM...
- [Benign non-parasitic hepatic cystic tumours]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Unidad de Cirugía Hepatobiliopancreática, Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Spain
Cir Esp 89:565-73. 2011
..Other less common lesions are, hepatic cystadenoma, ciliated embryonic cyst, and a miscellaneous group. We have carried out a review of all benign non-parasitic hepatic cystic tumours, placing special emphasis on therapeutic strategies...
- Extremely high values of CA 19-9 in liver hydatidosis and frank biliary rupture
Jose M Ramia
Hospital de Guadalajara, Department of Surgery, Madrid, Spain
Turk J Gastroenterol 22:548-50. 2011
..We present two cases of huge elevation of carbohydrate antigen 19-9 in jaundiced patients with liver hydatidosis and biliocystic communication, and we assess the different theories presented in the medical literature today...
- Indications and therapeutical options in hepatolithiasis
J M Ramia
Unit of Hepato Biliary Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Service of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
Rev Esp Enferm Dig 98:597-604. 2006
..to present our experience with the treatment of hepatolithiasis...
- [Hepatocarcinoma in noncirrhotic liver]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Unidad de Cirugía Hepatobiliopancreática y Trasplante Hepático, Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Espana
Cir Esp 80:111-3. 2006
..Three patients underwent surgery. The clinical characteristics, therapeutic options, and survival and recurrence rates in this type of tumor are discussed...
- Split for two adults: what is the real feasibility?
J M Ramia
Unidad de Trasplante Hepatico, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
Transplant Proc 37:3855-6. 2005
..A split liver for two adults is a good theoretical option but the number of cases is low. We have tried to assess the feasibility of this technique...
- Isolated extrahepatic bile duct rupture in blunt abdominal trauma
J M Ramia
Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplantation Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
Am J Emerg Med 23:231-2. 2005
- [Surgical treatment of liver metastases from breast cancer]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Unidad de Cirugía Hepatobiliopancreática y Trasplante Hepático, Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Espana
Cir Esp 78:318-22. 2005
..In these patients, surgical resection seems to be the best therapeutic option. We present our experience of LM from breast cancer and discuss the indications for resection...
- [Distal pancreatectomy: one technique with several indications]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
Cir Esp 77:22-6. 2005
..We present a series of patients who underwent DP and discuss technical features and surgical indications...
- [Moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma of the gall bladder]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
Cir Esp 77:54. 2005
- [Duodenal adenocarcinoma]
Juan Manuel Ramia
Unidad de Cirugía Hepatobiliopancreática y Trasplante Hepático, Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
Cir Esp 77:208-12. 2005
..Duodenal adenocarcinoma is an infrequent neoplasm. Consequently, there are no large series that would allow conclusions to be reached on its diagnosis and treatment...
- Signet-ring-cell carcinoma of the Vater's ampulla
Jose Manuel Ramia
Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplantation Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
JOP 5:495-7. 2004
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- Retroperitoneal actinomycosis due to dropped gallstones
J M Ramia
Hepatobiliary Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Avda Fuerzas Armadas s n, Granada 18014, Spain
Surg Endosc 18:345-9. 2004
..However, calculi left in the abdominal cavity can produce a series of severe late complications. We present a patient with retroperitoneal actinomycosis produced by dropped gallstones after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy...
- [Benign solid liver tumors]
Jose Manuel Ramia
Unidad de Cirugía Hepatobiliopancreática y Trasplante Hepático, Servicio de Cirugia General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
Cir Esp 77:247-53. 2005
..Morbidity and mortality after resection of these tumors is very low since excision is limited, performed in young people without concomitant disease, and in healthy liver...
- Postlaparoscopic cholecystectomy bile leak secondary to an accessory duct of Luschka
J M Ramia
Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
JSLS 9:216-7. 2005
..The surgical treatment consists of a lavage of the abdominal cavity, closure of the duct of Luschka, and intraoperative cholangiography to confirm that the biliary tree is intact...
- Cystic artery pseudoaneurism from an evolved acute calculous cholecystitis
Gonzalo Gutiérrez
Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
Am J Surg 187:519-20. 2004
- Profile of patients with hepatic hydatid disease not treated surgically
Jose Manuel Ramia
Unit of Hepato Bilio Pancreatic Surgery, Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Hospital Universitario de Guadalajara, C Donante de sangre s n, Guadalajara, Spain
Rev Esp Enferm Dig 103:448-52. 2011
..The treatment of HHD is usually surgical but certain patients are found to be ineligible after assessment for surgery (asymptomatic disease, comorbidity, patient refusal, or other)...
- Time course of intraoperative cytokine levels in liver transplant recipients
F Santiago
Anesthesiology Service, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain
Transplant Proc 38:2492-4. 2006
..We conclude that IL-6 is the first cytokine involved in the inflammatory response during liver transplantation...
- Early postoperative response of cytokines in liver transplant recipients
L Hassan
Experimental Surgery Research Unit, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain
Transplant Proc 38:2488-91. 2006
..IL-6 and IL-10 plasma concentrations and serum bilirubin level might be useful as a predictive factor of postoperative complications in liver transplant recipients...
- Time course of antioxidant enzyme activities in liver transplant recipients
L Hassan
Experimental Surgery Research Unit, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain
Transplant Proc 37:3932-5. 2005
..In this sense, although MDA levels showed an enormeous increase at 1 hour after transplantation, the lipid peroxidation was compensated for by GPX activity...
