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Amiloride reduces portal hypertension in rat liver cirrhosis [PDF]
, 2010 Objective This study aimed to investigate the effect of amiloride on portal hypertension. Amiloride is known to inhibit Na(+)/H(+) exchangers on activated hepatic stellate cells.
Beitinger, Frigga +6 more
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Refractory Hepatic Hydrothorax in Chronic Hepatitis C Controlled by Direct-acting Antivirals
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2020 Hepatic hydrothorax is a transudative pleural effusion that complicates advanced liver cirrhosis. Patients refractory to medical treatment plus salt restriction and diuretics are considered to have refractory hepatic hydrothorax and may require ...
Myung Hee Kim +5 more
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Cancer-Associated Thrombosis in Cirrhotic Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma. [PDF]
, 2018 It is common knowledge that cancer patients are more prone to develop venous thromboembolic complications (VTE). It is therefore not surprising that patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) present with a significant risk of VTE, with the portal vein
Burra, P +5 more
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BMC Gastroenterology, 2022 Background The present study investigates if common missense functional variants p.I148M and p.E167K in PNPLA3 and TM6SF2 genes, respectively, associate with development of hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis in a geographically novel cohort of Pakistani ...
Bisma Rauff +7 more
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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 +3 more
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Role of antiviral therapy in the natural history of hepatitis B virus-related chronic liver disease [PDF]
, 2015 Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a dynamic state of interactions among HBV, hepatocytes, and the host immune system. Natural history studies of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection have shown an association between active viral replication and adverse
Farinati, Fabio +5 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 +6 more
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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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CEUS LI-RADS: a pictorial review [PDF]
, 2020 Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) greatly improved the diagnostic accuracy of US in the detection and characterization of focal liver lesions (FLLs), and it is suggested and often included in many international guidelines as an important diagnostic ...
Bartolotta, Tommaso Vincenzo +3 more
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Ammonia toxicity: from head to toe? [PDF]
, 2016 Ammonia is diffused and transported across all plasma membranes. This entails that hyperammonemia leads to an increase in ammonia in all organs and tissues.
Dasarathy, Srinivasan +6 more
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