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Epidemiology of liver cirrhosis and associated complications: Current knowledge and future directions

open access: yesWorld Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022
Cirrhosis causes a heavy global burden. In this review, we summarized up-to-date epidemiological features of cirrhosis and its complications. Recent epidemiological studies reported an increase in the prevalence of cirrhosis in 2017 compared to in 1990 ...
Yuanbin Liu, Mingkai Chen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Liver transplantation for the treatment of small hepatocellular carcinomas in patients with cirrhosis.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 1996
BACKGROUND The role of orthotopic liver transplantation in the treatment of patients with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma is controversial, and determining which patients are likely to have a good outcome after liver transplantation is difficult.
V. Mazzaferro   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hypotension in Cirrhosis [PDF]

open access: yesClinical 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 Vora, Ram Subramanian
openaire   +3 more sources

Right Heart Remodeling in Patients with End-Stage Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis: Speckle Tracking Point of View [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
BACKGROUND: Data regarding cardiac remodeling in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis are scarce. We sought to investigate right atrial (RA) and right ventricular (RV) structure, function, and mechanics in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
Braun, Alexander   +8 more
core   +1 more source

The burden of clostridium difficile infection in patients with liver cirrhosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Hepatitis C virus related cirrhosis decreased as indication to liver transplantation since the introduction of direct-acting antivirals: A single-center study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
AIM: To evaluate waiting list (WL) registration and liver transplantation (LT) rates in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related cirrhosis since the introduction of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs).
Angeli, Paolo   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of spider nevus and subcutaneous collateral vessel of chest/abdominal wall on outcomes of liver cirrhosis

open access: yesArchives of Medical Science, 2019
Introduction Spider nevus and subcutaneous collateral vessel of the chest/abdominal wall are common in liver cirrhosis. This prospective study aimed to evaluate the impact of spider nevus and subcutaneous collateral vessel of the chest/abdominal wall on ...
Hongyu Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extrahepatic Surgery in Cirrhosis Significantly Increases Portal Pressure in Preclinical Animal Models

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2021
Background: Liver cirrhosis is a relevant comorbidity with increasing prevalence. Postoperative decompensation and development of complications in patients with cirrhosis remains a frequent clinical problem.
Johannes Chang   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends in Characteristics, Mortality, and Other Outcomes of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Cirrhosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension: current perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

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