The HCC-VP.COM project presents a series of case studies of virtual patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

The interactive educational content was created for the purpose of the lifelong learning of physicians, above all in the field of oncology, and aims to develop competencies in clinical reasoning.

This international project expands the range of on-line learning activities, especially for young doctors, to include gamification elements in the lifelong learning process.

Ranking best players

Nickname Number of games completed Total score
1. kontrola 19 119
2. mi96 7 69
3. Andy 4 67
4. churova 9 57
5. janakar 4 47

Recent virtual patient cases

Complex oncological treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

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The 68-year-old male patient had a history of tonsillectomy at the age of 8 years, controlled hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus known for 20 years, chronic alcohol abuse, hepatic cirrhosis, and upper gastrointestinal bleeding episodes. Previous surgeries included right hip replacement surgery (total hip endoprosthesis, TEP) on April 24, 2013, and left hip replacement (TEP) on January 26, 2015. In 2008, the patient underwent coronarography for NSTEMI, with negative results. In March 2018, coronarography for angina revealed subtotal occlusion at the middle third of the right coronary artery (RCA) and significant stenosis in the left arterial descending artery (LAD), and the patient underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and stent placement in the RCA (RCA-PCI). In June 2018, LAD-PCI was performed due to residual LAD stenosis.

author: Dr. Edina Kiss, Hungarian Military Health Center Budapest, publicated: 13.12.2023

61-year-old male – hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with cured viral hepatitis C

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In 2010, a 61-year-old male visits your surgery. So far, he is relatively healthy, but a couple of weeks ago, he was referred to the internal medicine clinic by his attending physician for elevated liver enzymes and AFP, where chronic hepatitis C in the liver cirrhosis stage was diagnosed. You receive the patient for follow-up care and have to decide about further therapy and potential liver transplantation.

author: MUDr. Libuše Husová, Ph.D.; Centre of Cardiovascular and Transplantation Surgery in Brno, publicated: 26.09.2022
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