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Hepatic Telangiectasia and Cirrhosis

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 1988
In a woman with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) (Osler-Weber-Rendu disease) who died of fulminant hepatitis B, autopsy revealed cirrhosis of the liver and diffuse hepatic telangiectasia. Her daughter and grandson also suffered from the hepatic involvement of HHT. Sufficient laboratory investigations were available to exclude known causes of
Devière, Jacques, Brohée, Dany, Hiden, M., Bourgeois, Nadine   +3 more
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Hepatic encephalopathy due to cardiac cirrhosis

Clinical Case Reports, 2023
Key Clinical Message Right‐sided heart failure, including tricuspid regurgitation (TR), can cause cardiac cirrhosis. The pathophysiology is reduced arterial perfusion and passive congestion secondary to increased systemic venous pressure.
Ryohei Ono, Hiroki Goto, Yuhei Oyama, Kazuya Tateishi, Hiroyuki Takaoka, Naoya Kato, Yoshio Kobayashi   +6 more
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Study of the Correlation between Helicobacter pylori Infection and Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis [PDF]

Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 2014
Background and study aim: Ammonia plays a major role in hepatic encephalopathy pathogenesis. Most of ammonia is known to be produced by the action of colonic bacteria which possess a urease enzyme activity. H. pylori which infects the stomach possesses a
Mahmoud Kamel, Abeer El Shalakany, Hosam El Din Seleem, Atef Ali   +3 more
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The microbiota in cirrhosis and its role in hepatic decompensation.

Journal of Hepatology, 2021
Cirrhosis - the common end-stage of chronic liver disease - is associated with a cascade of events, of which intestinal bacterial overgrowth and dysbiosis are central.
J. Trebicka, J. Macnaughtan, B. Schnabl, D. Shawcross, J. Bajaj   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development of a New Index to Distinguish Hepatic Encephalopathy through Automated Quantification of Globus Pallidal Signal Intensity Using MRI

Diagnostics, 2022
Hyperintensities within the bilateral globus pallidus on T1-weighted magnetic resonance images were present in some liver cirrhosis patients with hepatic encephalopathy. The symptoms of covert hepatic encephalopathy are similar to those of mild dementia.
Yasuyuki Tamai, Motoh Iwasa, Yuichi Yoshida, Jun Nomoto, Takahiro Kato, Hiroe Asuke, Akiko Eguchi, Yoshiyuki Takei, Hayato Nakagawa   +8 more
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Macrophage cytotherapy on liver cirrhosis

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023
Macrophages, an essential cell population involved in mediating innate immunity in the host, play a crucial role on the development of hepatic cirrhosis.
Dabing Ping, Yuan Peng, Xudong Hu, Chenghai Liu, Chenghai Liu, Chenghai Liu   +5 more
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Assessment of hemodynamic parameters of hepatic and visceral blood flow in decompensated liver cirrhosis

Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2021
The aim. To assess the hemodynamic parameters of the hepatic and visceral blood flow in patients with compensated and decompensated liver cirrhosis. Materials and methods.
A. S. Tugushev, O. S. Cherkovska, D. I. Mikhantiev   +2 more
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Immunomodulatory effect of curcumin on hepatic cirrhosis in experimental rats.

Journal of food biochemistry, 2020
Cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease. The present work aimed to evaluate the regulatory immune effect of curcumin in hepatic cirrhosis induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) injections in experimental rats' model.
M. Abo-Zaid, E. Shaheen, A. H. Ismail
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predictive value of liver and spleen stiffness measurement based on two-dimensional shear wave elastography for the portal vein pressure in patients with compensatory viral cirrhosis [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Objective This study aimed to explore the predictive value of liver and spleen stiffness measurement based on two-dimensional shear wave elastography for the portal vein pressure in patients with compensatory viral cirrhosis. Methods From January 2017 to
Peng Wang, Xinhong Hu, Feng Xie
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Coronary revascularization in a patient with cirrhosis and renal failure. Coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient with hepatic cirrhosis and end stage renal disease

Perioperative Medicine, 2021
Surgery in a patient with hepatic cirrhosis entails risk of complications and of death. Association of end stage renal disease (ESRD) along with cirrhosis further increases perioperative risk of morbidity and mortality.
Wali Murugesh
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