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Health EducationEsophageal Varices and Bleeding 食道靜脈曲張及出血
2023/1/5Liver cirrhosis can cause portal hypertension, which is unusually elevated in portal-venous pressure. Many complications can be resulted from portal hypertension and the most frequent one is esophageal variceal bleeding.
Liver Cirrohsis 肝硬化診斷與治療
2023/1/5Liver Cirrhosis is diffused inflammation and fibrosis, forming regeneration nodules, affecting normal liver function, and causing the obliteration of portal flow and portal hypertension.
Liver Cancer Prevention and Treatment 肝癌預防與治療
2023/1/5The treatment of liver cancer needs to take consideration of liver function tests and location of tumor due to patients usually with chronic hepatitis or liver cirrhosis (may combined with jaundice, ascites, esophageal varices, hepatic encephalopathy and coagulopathy).
Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Ethanol Injection Therapy or Tumor Ablation 肝腫瘤經皮超音波導引酒精注射治療或腫瘤消融術
2023/1/5Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is commonly known as one of primary liver cancer, which managements can be divided into curative treatments such as surgical resection, liver transplantation and tumor ablation, and palliative treatments such as trans-arterial chemoembolization, radiation therapy, systemic chemotherapy, target therapy, and immunotherapy.
Hepatitis C C型肝炎
2023/1/5Hepatitis C is the inflammation when the liver is infected by hepatitis C virus (HCV). Hepatitis C was initially addressed as “Non-A nor B Hepatitis” but was separated in 1989. Now it is officially known as hepatitis C virus.
Instructions for Biliary Stenting Post-Surgical Health Education 膽道支架術後衛教說明
2023/1/5The ductal stent made of plastic or nickel-titanium alloy wires is used to treat malignant biliary tumor or benign biliary stricture in order to alleviate jaundice or heal biliary stricture.
Instructions for Gastrointestinal Metallic Stenting Post-Surgical Health Education 腸胃道金屬支架術後衛教說明
2023/1/5The device is the metallic stent made of nickel-titanium alloy wires woven into a mesh, which expands the narrow part of gastrointestinal tract through unfolding force.
Acute Hepatitis 急性肝炎
2023/1/5Acute hepatitis refers to the process of acute injury and necrosis affecting the liver parenchymal and nonparenchymal cells. Common and rare causes that lead to acute hepatitis are as follows:
Understanding Liver Cancer 了解肝癌
2023/1/5In Taiwan, liver cancer has been ranked first two places of top ten cancer mortality over more than 20 years, which affects the health of people substantially. According to statistics, there are new cases of 9,000 patients with liver cancer each year while there are approximately 8,000 patients who die of liver cancer each year.
Peptic Ulcer Disease 消化性潰瘍疾病
2023/1/5Peptic ulcer disease usually refers to the digestive ulcer of in the stomach, duodenum or the mucosa of the two surfaces. However ulcer can occur to any area exposed to adequate concentration or time of acid or gastrointestinal tract under pepsin.