{"id":5164,"date":"2023-11-01T11:45:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2023-11-06T12:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:11:20","slug":"hepatosplenic-schistosomiasis-associated-chronic-portal-vein-thrombosis-risk-factor-for-hepatocellular-carcinoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/hepatosplenic-schistosomiasis-associated-chronic-portal-vein-thrombosis-risk-factor-for-hepatocellular-carcinoma\/","title":{"rendered":"HEPATOSPLENIC SCHISTOSOMIASIS-ASSOCIATED CHRONIC PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS: RISK FACTOR FOR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"articleSectionTitle\">ABSTRACT<\/h1>\n<h2>BACKGROUND:<\/h2>\n<p>Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis is an endemic disease prevalent in tropical countries and is associated with a high incidence of portal vein thrombosis. Inflammatory changes caused by both parasitic infection and portal thrombosis can lead to the development of chronic liver disease with potential carcinogenesis.<\/p>\n<h2>AIMS:<\/h2>\n<p>To assess the incidence of portal vein thrombosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with schistosomiasis during long-term follow-up.<\/p>\n<h2>METHODS:<\/h2>\n<p>A retrospective study was conducted involving patients with schistosomiasis followed up at our institution between 1990 and 2021.<\/p>\n<h2>RESULTS:<\/h2>\n<p>A total of 126 patients with schistosomiasis were evaluated in the study. The mean follow-up time was 16 years (range 5\u201331). Of the total, 73 (57.9%) patients presented portal vein thrombosis during follow-up. Six (8.1%) of them were diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma, all with portal vein thrombosis diagnosed more than ten years before.<\/p>\n<h2>CONCLUSIONS:<\/h2>\n<p>The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with schistosomiasis and chronic portal vein thrombosis highlights the importance of a systematic long-term follow-up in this group of patients.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis is an endemic disease prevalent in tropical countries and is associated with a high incidence of portal vein thrombosis. Inflammatory changes caused by both parasitic infection and portal thrombosis can lead to the development of chronic liver disease with potential carcinogenesis. AIMS: To assess the incidence of portal vein thrombosis and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[324,654,252,230],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-article","tag-hepatocellular-carcinoma","tag-portal-vein","tag-schistosomiasis","tag-thrombosis"],"acf":[],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}