Why does living donor liver transplantation flourish in Asia?

CL Chen, CS Kabiling, AM Concejero - … reviews gastroenterology & …, 2013 - nature.com
… In Asia, the first successful liver transplantation was performed by Chao-Long Chen (trained
by Starzl) in Taiwan in 1984. This step was followed by other countries and by the …

Living-donor liver transplantation: 12 years of experience in Asia

CL Chen, ST Fan, SG Lee, M Makuuchi… - Transplantation, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Living-donor liver transplantation has provided a solution to the severe lack of cadaveric grafts
for the replacement of livers afflicted with end-stage cirrhosis, fulminant disease, or inborn …

Evaluation of living liver donors1

YS Chen, YF Cheng, VH De Villa, CC Wang… - …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Preoperative evaluation of donors for living-donor liver transplantation aims to select a suitable
donor with optimal graft quality and to ensure donor safety. There are minor variations in …

Psychological impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome on health workers in a tertiary hospital

…, WC Yeh, TL Huang, JK Wen, CL Chen - The British journal of …, 2004 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe sudden emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused
international anxiety owing to its highly contagious and pandemic transmission. Health …

Effect of everolimus on survival in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma after failure of sorafenib: the EVOLVE-1 randomized clinical trial

…, HY Lim, RTP Poon, JF Blanc, A Vogel, CL Chen… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Aside from the multikinase inhibitor sorafenib, there are no effective systemic
therapies for the treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. Objective To assess the …

Survival comparison between surgical resection and radiofrequency ablation for patients in BCLC very early/early stage hepatocellular carcinoma

JH Wang, CC Wang, CH Hung, CL Chen, SN Lu - Journal of hepatology, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: To compare the survival between surgical resection (SR) and
radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Barcelona …

Immunization with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) peptide-pulsed dendritic cells induces functional CD8+ T-cell immunity and may lead to tumor regression in patients with …

…, TH Lee, Y Ren, SL Hwang, YF Cheng, CL Chen… - Cancer research, 2002 - AACR
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), a common neoplasm in Southeast Asia, is EBV-positive
and expresses a limited number of antigens, including latent membrane protein 2. In this …

The efficacy of treatment schedules according to Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer staging for hepatocellular carcinoma–survival analysis of 3892 patients

…, CM Lee, KM Kee, CY Lin, CL Chen, TY Chen… - European journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
The Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging offers prognostic stratification and treatment
allocation for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We conducted this retrospective study to …

Defining benchmarks for major liver surgery: a multicenter analysis of 5202 living liver donors

…, K Slankamenac, PD Greig, SG Lee, CL Chen… - Annals of …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To measure and define the best achievable outcome after major hepatectomy.
Background: No reference values are available on outcomes after major hepatectomies. …

Impact of artificial sunlight therapy on the progress of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in rats

…, JY Deng, YZ Huang, H Honda, KD Chen… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is recognized as the most
severe form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, with likely progression to liver cirrhosis and …