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From:Pharmaceutical Medicine (Vol. 22, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Liver cirrhosis is a progressive disease characterized by loss of functional hepatocytes with concomitant connective tissue and nodule formation in the liver. The morphological and physiological changes...
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From:Mental Health Practice (Vol. 11, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedScotland has one of the fastest growing liver cirrhosis death rates in the world at a time when rates are falling in many other parts of western Europe, a Scottish Government consultation document has reported. As part...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedAlcohol consumption is the cause of around 4 per cent of the global burden of disease--a proportion similar to that of tobacco and hypertension. Rates of mortality due to cirrhosis of the liver are important...
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From:Gut (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: We have previously documented the value of contrast enhanced ultrasound in the assessment of the severity of liver disease. No direct comparison between serum markers such as hyaluronic acid (HYA) and...
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From:Heart (Vol. 87, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe systemic circulation in patients with cirrhosis is hyperdynamic with an increased cardiac output and heart rate and a reduced systemic vascular resistance as the most pronounced alterations. The concomitant cardiac...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Tun-Wei Hsu 1 , 2 , Changwei W. Wu 3 , Yu-Fan Cheng 4 , Hsiu-Ling Chen 1 , 4 , Cheng-Hsien Lu 5 , Kuan-Hung Cho 6 , Wei-Che Lin 1 , 4 , * , Ching-Po Lin 1 , 6 , * Introduction Liver cirrhosis is...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Roland Amathieu 1,2,*, Mohamed N. Triba 2, Pierre Nahon 3, Nadia Bouchemal 2, Walid Kamoun 1, Hakim Haouache 1, Jean-Claude Trinchet 3, Philippe Savarin 2, Laurence Le Moyec 4, Gilles Dhonneur 1...
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From:Journal of Diabetes Research (Vol. 2016) Peer-ReviewedObjective. This study examined the association between serum albumin concentration and ketosis risk in hospitalized individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods. A retrospective cross-sectional study was...
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From:The Egyptian Journal of Surgery (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Fady. Habib, Ahmed. Sallam, Loay. Gertallah Background Umbilical hernia had been found to occur in 20% of cirrhotic patients with decompensated liver cell failure who had ascites; in such patients, umbilical...
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From:Journal of Clinical Investigation (Vol. 126, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the most common liver disease in industrialized countries. NASH is a progressive disease that can lead to cirrhosis, cancer, and death, and there are currently no approved...
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From:Alcohol Research: Current Reviews (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhy Study Alcohol-Related Organ Damage? The association between alcohol misuse and organ damage, specifically liver disease, has been recognized for more than 200 years (Maher 1997). Yet it was not until the early...
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From:The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society (Vol. 166, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune disease of the liver. It is characterized by a T-cell-mediated attack of the small, intrahepatic bile ducts. The exact etiology is unknown, but it is...
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From:Chest (Vol. 100, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA patient with type PiZZ [alpha]-1-antitrypsin deficiency was found to have severe hypoxia despite normal pulmonary function testing and a normal chest radiograph. A nuclear medicine ventilation-perfusion study revealed...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Arterial blood pressure (BP) is a reliable marker of circulatory dysfunction in cirrhotic patients. There are no prospective studies evaluating the association between different levels of arterial BP and...
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From:Journal of Immunology Research (Vol. 2013) Peer-ReviewedThe hepatitis C virus (HCV) is able to persist as a chronic infection, which can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer. There is evidence that clearance of HCV is linked to strong responses by CD8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes...
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From:Grand Rounds (Vol. 10) Peer-ReviewedSpontaneous liver haemorrhage due to thrombolysis is an extremely rare and life-threatening condition. This is the only report of spontaneous liver haemorrhage following thrombolysis in the literature that has been...
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From:Stem Cells International (Vol. 2017) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Liver fibrosis is a chronic progressive liver disease, but no established effective treatment exists except for liver transplantation. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of human...
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From:The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Mohammed. Ashmawy, Hosny. Younis, Mahmoud. Abd Elbaset, Haitham. Abdel Rahman, Ahmed. Ashmawy, Muhammad. Shawky, Mohammed. Abd Elnasser Background and aim Cardiac dysfunction is a prevalent finding in...
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From:Bone Marrow Research (Vol. 2018) Peer-ReviewedThere is great variation in cytopenias in cirrhotic patients with same severity and hypersplenism and their causative factors are not clear. Recent studies have highlighted the role of gut microbiome in regulation of...
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From:Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Sapna. Kashyap, Amit. Singh, Abha. Mishra, Vikas. Singh Furosemide (FSM) is commonly used in the treatment of edema associated with congestive cardiac failure, cirrhosis of the liver, renal disease, including...