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Characteristics of bacterial infections and prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacteria in hospitalized patients with liver cirrhosis in Germany

Annals of Hepatology, 2022
Introduction and Objectives: Bacterial infections are associated with a dismal prognosis in patients with liver cirrhosis. Data on their prevalence and the associated pathogen spectra in Germany are scarce.
Wolfgang Maximilian Kremer, Simon Johannes Gairing, Leonard Kaps, Esmeralda Ismail, Vasiliki Kalampoka, Max Hilscher, Maurice Michel, Ekkehard Siegel, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Peter R. Galle, Martin F. Sprinzl, Marcus-Alexander Wörns, Michael Nagel, Christian Labenz   +13 more
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Value of Ascitic Lipids in the Differentiation between Cirrhotic and Malignant Ascites [PDF]

, 1986
Ascitic fluid concentrations of cholesterol, triglycerides and phospholipids, were compared with ascitic fluid total protein in 40 patients with chronic liver disease, 51patients with various neoplasms and 1 patient with cardiac failure.
Alexander L. Gerbes, Boyer, Dieter Jüngst, Eggstein, Eimermacher, Fiske, Galen, Greene, Gustav Paumgartner, Kirkeby, Nystrom, Paddock, Pare, Polak, Robert Martin, Rovelstad, Röschlau, Sampliner, Schölmerich, Suzuki, Svanberg, Takayama, Tomb   +22 more
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Preoperative TIPS prevents the development of postoperative acute-on-chronic liver failure in patients with high CLIF-C AD score

JHEP Reports, 2022
Background & Aims: Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a syndrome associated with organ failure and high short-term mortality. Recently, the role of surgery as a precipitating event for ACLF has been characterised.
Johannes Chang, Pauline Höfer, Nina Böhling, Philipp Lingohr, Steffen Manekeller, Jörg C. Kalff, Jonas Dohmen, Dominik J. Kaczmarek, Christian Jansen, Carsten Meyer, Christian P. Strassburg, Jonel Trebicka, Michael Praktiknjo   +12 more
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Haemostatic alterations and management of haemostasis in patients with cirrhosis.

Journal of Hepatology, 2022
Patients with cirrhosis frequently acquire complex changes in their haemostatic system including a decreased platelet count and decreased levels of various haemostatic proteins.
T. Lisman, S. Caldwell, N. Intagliata
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Autologous Bone Marrow Infusion Activates the Progenitor Cell Compartment in Patients with Advanced Liver Cirrhosis

Cell Transplantation, 2010
Several clinical trials of bone marrow cell infusion in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) have shown clinical improvement, despite conflicting results from animal models.
Ja Kyung Kim, Young Nyun Park, Jin Seok Kim, Mi-Suk Park, Yong Han Paik, Jae-Yeon Seok, Yong Eun Chung, Hyun Ok Kim, Kyung Sik Kim, Sang Hoon Ahn, Do Young Kim, Myeong-Jin Kim, Kwan Sik Lee, Chae Yoon Chon, Soo Jeong Kim, Shuji Terai, Isao Sakaida, Kwang-Hyub Han   +17 more
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Inhibitory effects of HNF4α on migration/maltransformation of hepatic progenitors: HNF4α-overexpressing hepatic progenitors for liver repopulation

Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2017
Background Although they are expandable in vitro, hepatic progenitors are immature cells and share many immunomarkers with hepatocellular carcinoma, raising potential concerns regarding maltransformation after transplantation. This study investigated the
Ping Wang, Min Cong, Tianhui Liu, Hufeng Xu, Lin Wang, Guangyong Sun, Aiting Yang, Dong Zhang, Jian Huang, Yameng Sun, Wenshan Zhao, Hong Ma, Jidong Jia, Hong You   +13 more
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Pathophysiology of elevated ascites fluid cholesterol in malignant ascites [PDF]

, 1992
The existence of marked elevations of ascitic fluid cholesterol has been observed in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis compared to patients with cirrhosis and has been found useful in differential diagnosis.
Alexander L. Gerbes, Caselmann, Conrad, Dieter Jüngst, Garrison, Gerbes, Henderson, Henriksen, Hirabayashi, Hoefs, Hoefs, Jüngst, Kerscher, Lifshitz, Loiudice, Lopes-Virella, Mortensen, Pare, Polak, Prieto, Romette, Rovelstad, Röschlau, Suzuki, Weichselbaum, Weisweiler, Witte, Yining Xie   +27 more
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High rates of 30-day mortality in patients with cirrhosis and COVID-19

Journal of Hepatology, 2020
Background & Aims Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a major health threat to healthy individuals and those with comorbidities, but its impact on patients with cirrhosis is currently unknown.
M. Iavarone, R. D’Ambrosio, A. Soria, M. Triolo, N. Pugliese, P. del Poggio, G. Perricone, S. Massironi, A. Spinetti, E. Buscarini, M. Viganò, C. Carriero, S. Fagiuoli, A. Aghemo, L. Belli, M. Lucà, M. Pedaci, A. Rimondi, M. Rumi, P. Invernizzi, P. Bonfanti, P. Lampertico   +21 more
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Current knowledge and management of portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis.

Journal of Hepatology, 2021
Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a complication of cirrhosis that is being increasingly recognized and increases in parallel with the severity of cirrhosis. Several risk factors have been associated with the occurrence and progression of PVT. Although the
M. Senzolo, G. Garcia‐Tsao, J. García‐Pagán   +2 more
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Albumin-bilirubin score for predicting the in-hospital mortality of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in liver cirrhosis: A retrospective study

The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2016
Background/Aims: The albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) score is a new model for assessing the severity of liver dysfunction. In the present study, we aimed to retrospectively compare the performance of ALBI with Child-Pugh and the model for end-stage liver ...
Deli Zou, Xingshun Qi, Cuihong Zhu, Zheng Ning, Feifei Hou, Jiancheng Zhao, Ying Peng, Jing Li, Han Deng, Xiaozhong Guo   +9 more
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