Liver trauma: hepatic vascular injury on computed tomography as a predictor of patient outcome

AI-assisted ultrasound for early liver trauma: Animal models & clinical validation

“…It is an affordable real-time imaging approach, allowing dynamic, convenient, and continuous examination (2,8). However, compared to other imaging techniques, the quality of US imaging is signi cantly affected by the physiological characteristics of patients and is more dependent on the operation methods and human factors (9). Thus, arti cial intelligence (AI)-empowered ultrasonography has the potential to accelerate further the use of medical ultrasound in various clinical settings by analyzing the patient's clinical information, gene information, and multimodal imaging information, simplifying the operation steps and avoiding subjective differences, saving physician resources, shortening the reporting time, and improving the diagnostic e ciency (10)(11)(12)(13).…”

Transhepatic glue injection for hepatic pseudoaneurysm and arteriohepatic venous fistula after the failure of transarterial embolization

“…1 High-grade hepatic injuries often include liver vascular injuries, such as pseudoaneurysm (PSA), arterial-venous fistula, and contrast extravasation due to damaged blood vessel walls, typically requiring interventional treatment. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Transarterial embolization (TAE) is the current standard treatment for vascular injuries, with a high success rate and low morbidity. 6,[9][10][11][12] The percutaneous direct injection technique has been usually used to treat vascular malformations and in some specific cases, vascular injuries in the head, neck, and limbs, [13][14][15][16] but it has rarely been applied to visceral vascular lesions.…”

When the Deceased Donor Has Sustained Blunt Trauma to the Liver: What Happens Next?

“…4 Particularly informative are the results obtained from the subgroup analysis for the outcomes of the donors, in which a prior intervention was required in 20 (7%) to manage various sequelae of the liver trauma before organ donation became a consideration. 5 Although the numbers are small, it is evident that the liver was then able to be transplanted from some of the donors who had either undergone a damage control laparotomy (8/15; 53%) or hepatic artery embolization (3/5; 60%). Before now, recovering the liver for the purposes of transplantation in these particular circumstances has only been described via case reports.…”