Are age , obesity , medical comorbidities and surgical technique predictive of symptomatic anastomotic strictures after contemporary radical prostatectomy?
Patient factors as well as technical factors influence the development of symptomatic anastomotic strictures following contemporary radical prostatectomy. The impact of these factors is influenced by the individual surgeon and the approach used.
These results reveal an angiogenic role of HSCs mediated by angiopoietin 1, which contributes to development of liver fibrosis. Thus, angiogenesis and hepatic fibrosis are mutually stimulatory, such that fibrosis requires angiogenesis and angiogenesis requires angiopoietin 1 from activated HSCs.