Background: Ascites and pleural effusion are well recognized complications of pancreatic diseases. Drug therapy of these is limited by high cost, prolonged hospitalization and failure rates ...

In contrast to LVP, which provides only symptomatic control and requires repeated procedures, TIPS efficiently prevents the formation of ascites and increases urinary sodium excretion by reducing ...

The authors showed that regulatory T cells isolated from human tumour ascites inhibited the proliferation ... there were fewer regulatory T cells in tumour-draining nodes than in lymph nodes ...