• Autologous infusion of expanded mobilized adult bone marrow-derived CD34+ cells into patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis 

      Pai, M.; Zacharoulis, D.; Milicevic, M. N.; Helmy, S.; Jiao, L. R.; Levicar, N.; Tait, P.; Scott, M.; Marley, S. B.; Jestice, K.; Glibetic, M.; Bansi, D.; Khan, S. A.; Kyriakou, D.; Rountas, C.; Thillainayagam, A.; Nicholls, J. P.; Jensen, S.; Apperley, J. F.; Gordon, M. Y.; Habib, N. A. (2008)
      OBJECTIVES: Recent advances in regenerative medicine, including hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation, have brought hope for patients with severe alcoholic liver cirrhosis (ALC). The aim of this study was to assess ...
    • Basics of radiofrequency tissue ablation 

      Jiao, L. R.; Zacharoulis, D.; Habib, N. A. (2006)
      Surgical advances generally follow either a scientific discovery or a technological breakthrough, for example magnetic resonance imaging or joint replacement. Over the past few years, the advent of new energy sources, such ...
    • Liver gene therapy: Will gene therapy deliver to the liver patient? 

      Levicar, N.; Jiao, L.; Bachellier, Ph; Zaharoulis, D.; Jaeck, D.; Helmy, S.; Salama, H.; Nicholls, J.; Jensen, S.; Habib, N. A. (2006)
      The gene therapy dream started well over a decade ago. Despite its wide and successful application in research, it still has not reached the clinics in a meaningful way. No doubt that successful gene therapy has a lot to ...
    • The use of sirtex in inoperable liver tumours. A surgeon's view 

      Zacharoulis, D.; Habib, N. A.; Jiao, R. (2006)
      Over the past few years, selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) has been used clinically for the treatment of non-resectable hepatic metastases in the absence of extrahepatic metastases and in combination with hepatic ...