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The stratification of cirrhosis [PDF]
Hepatology Research, 2020 Cirrhosis is traditionally seen as an irreversible stage of chronic liver disease although its clinical course may last several years. Overall, the clinical management of patients with cirrhosis is based on the observation of clinical events mostly related to complications of portal hypertension.
Maurice, J, Pinzani, M
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Hypotension in Cirrhosis [PDF]
Clinical Liver Disease, 2019 Circulatory and cardiac compromise in cirrhosis has been well studied. The primary pathophysiology stems from portal hypertension, which is induced from an increased resistance to flow secondary to distorted sinusoidal architecture and is further sustained from an increase in portal venous flow.1 Portal hypertension induces both progressive splanchnic ...
Ravi S, Vora, Ram M, Subramanian
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Liver Transplantation, 2008 As the treatment of cirrhosis improves, pregnancy in patients with cirrhosis is likely to become more common. Although maternal and fetal mortality is expected to similarly improve, pregnant patients with cirrhosis face unique risks. These include higher rates of spontaneous abortion and prematurity and a potential for life-threatening variceal ...
Jennifer, Tan, Bijal, Surti, Sammy, Saab
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Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology, 2019 Patients with cirrhosis are at high risk of developing serious infections. Bacterial infections remain the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in these patients. This review is focused on the prevalence of infections in those with cirrhosis, including multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens, pathogenesis of infection-related acute-on-chronic liver
Ekpanyapong, Sirina, Reddy, K. Rajender
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Sex difference in the interaction of alcohol intake, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus on the risk of cirrhosis [PDF]
, 2017 Background The joint effect of the interaction of alcohol intake, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) on the risk of cirrhosis is still unexplored because a large sample size is required for this investigation.
Almasio, Piero Luigi +11 more
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Pathologic analysis of liver transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis [PDF]
, 1988 A retrospective histopathologic review of all pathologic specimens from 394 adult liver transplant patients was undertaken with clinical correlation to determine if primary biliary cirrhosis has affected the posttrans‐plant course compared to all other ...
Ballardini +25 more
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The burden of clostridium difficile infection in patients with liver cirrhosis [PDF]
, 2019 Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) has registered a dramatically increasing incidence in the general population over the past decades. Nowadays, Clostridium Difficile is the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in Europe and North America ...
Dumitru, Andrada +5 more
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Hyponatraemia and cirrhosis [PDF]
Gastroenterology Report, 2014 Hyponatraemia is a common complication of advanced cirrhosis related to an impairment in the renal capacity for eliminating solute-free water, causing a retention of water that is disproportionate to the retention of sodium, thus leading to a reduction in serum sodium concentration and hypo-osmolality.
Gianotti, Robert J., Cardenas, Andres
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Trends in Characteristics, Mortality, and Other Outcomes of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Cirrhosis [PDF]
, 2019 Importance: Changes in the characteristics of patients with cirrhosis are likely to affect future outcomes and are important to understand in planning for the care of this population.
Chalasani, Naga +6 more
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Idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension: current perspectives [PDF]
, 2016 The term idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension (INCPH) has been recently proposed to replace terms, such as hepatoportal sclerosis, idiopathic portal hypertension, incomplete septal cirrhosis, and nodular regenerative hyperplasia, used to describe ...
D'AMATI, Giulia +5 more
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