Drug delivery systems can alter drug clearance from the peritoneal cavity and drug toxicity profiles. For example, IP injection of cisplatin-loaded polymeric microspheres (100–200 µm, which releases ...

Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) provides an important treatment option that can improve survival for some patients with advanced peritoneal cancer. Managing this disease — and ...

Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) of colorectal cancer (CRC) origin is associated with poor outcome. This systematic review evaluates the available evidence about adjuvant (hyperthermic) intraperitoneal ...

Long-term peritoneal dialysis can lead to morphological and functional changes in the peritoneum. Although the range of morphological alterations is known for the peritoneal dialysis population as a ...

Understand how the rare relative of ovarian cancer is diagnosed and treated. Joanne Wilson was feeling less like herself — she was always tired, sometimes struggling just to get up in the morning, and ...

What do the Kidneys do? The kidneys work as a filtering unit for the blood in our bodies and help in excreting waste products from the blood stream. The kidney filters out waste products from the ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. A 67-year-old man in relatively good health presented to ...

Peritoneal mesothelioma (MPeM) is a rare malignancy, comprising only 10% to 15% of the approximately 2,500 cases of malignant mesothelioma (MM) diagnosed in the United States each year. In the ...

Since patients with peritoneal metastases often also have distant metastases in systemic organs, intravenous therapy is usually the standard of care. Multiple clinical studies have shown that adding ...