Is liver resection justified for patients with hepatic metastases from breast cancer?
For patients with BCLM, HR is safe and may provide a significant survival benefit over medical therapy alone. Response to preoperative chemotherapy, resection margin, and rehepatectomy for intrahepatic recurrence are key prognostic factors. Importantly, favorable outcomes can be achieved even in patients with medically controlled or surgically resectable extrahepatic disease, indicating that surgery should be considered more frequently in the multidisciplinary care of patients with BCLM.
An intravenous infusion of adenosine is capable of protecting rabbit hearts against stunning through adenosine receptor activation.