Prognostic value of ultrasound in early arterial complications post liver transplant.

Liver transplantation is the primary therapeutic intervention for end-stage liver disease. However, vascular complications, particularly those involving the hepatic artery, pose significant risks to patients. The clinical manifestations associated with early arterial complications following liver transplantation are often nonspecific. Without timely intervention, these complications can result in graft failure or patient mortality. Therefore, early diagnosis and the formulation of an optimal treatment plan are imperative. Ultrasound examination remains the predominant imaging modality for detecting complications post liver transplantation. This article comprehensively reviews common causes and clinical presentations of early hepatic artery complications in the post-transplantation period and delineates abnormal sonographic findings for accurate diagnosis of these conditions. Overall, ultrasound offers the advantages of convenience, safety, effectiveness, and non-invasiveness. It enables real-time, dynamic, and precise evaluation, making it the preferred diagnostic method for post-liver transplantation assessments.

[Discrimination of different aging methods of grape wine based on ATR infrared spectroscopy].

A total of 96 red wines aged with 3 kinds of methods were included in this study, including 44 wines aged in oak barrel, 26 wines aged in stainless steel tank added with oak chips and 26 wines aged in stainless steel tanks. The infrared spectra of the wines were scanned by Fourier transform infrared spectrometer with attenuated total reflection (ATR) accessories. To classify the 96 different aged wines, discriminant partial least squares (DPLS) method and support vector machine (SVM) method were used to establish models respectively. In order to examine the stability of the discriminant model, modeling was repeated 10 times with two-thirds of samples randomly selected as cross-validation. All the models had high discriminating power with the classification accuracy of the cross-validation and the validation all higher than 90%. These results suggest that the infrared ATR spectroscopy combined with pattern recognition method is a promising tool for discriminating different aging wines.