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Fa-Yauh Lee

Researcher at Taipei Veterans General Hospital

Publications -  311
Citations -  8220

Fa-Yauh Lee is an academic researcher from Taipei Veterans General Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cirrhosis & Portal hypertension. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 298 publications receiving 7420 citations. Previous affiliations of Fa-Yauh Lee include Veterans Health Administration & National Yang-Ming University.

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Antibiotic prophylaxis after endoscopic therapy prevents rebleeding in acute variceal hemorrhage: A randomized trial

TL;DR: In conclusion, antibiotic prophylaxis can prevent infection and rebleeding as well as decrease the amount of blood transfused for patients with acute GEVB following endoscopic treatment.
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Bacterial translocation to mesenteric lymph nodes is increased in cirrhotic rats with ascites

TL;DR: In cirrhotic rats, bacterial translocation is increased after the development of ascites and may be a major factor in theDevelopment of spontaneous infections in cirrhosis.
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Performance status in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: Determinants, prognostic impact, and ability to improve the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer system

TL;DR: In the Cox proportional hazards model, performance status was an independent prognostic predictor and the long‐term survival tended to be worse in patients with progressively poor performance status and the lowest AIC among the four BCLC‐based staging systems.
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The role of nitric oxide in the vascular hyporesponsiveness to methoxamine in portal hypertensive rats.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a vascular hyporesponsiveness to methoxamine is present in portal vein—ligated rats and that this hyporeSponsiveness is reversed by blockade of nitric oxide, which suggests that nitricoxide plays an important role in the arterial vasodilation observed in portal hypertensive states.