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Update on Alcoholic Hepatitis [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2015 Alcoholic liver disease is one of the most prevalent liver diseases worldwide, and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Alcoholic hepatitis is a severe form of liver injury in patients with alcohol abuse, can present as an acute on chronic liver ...
Natalie J. Torok
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Diagnostic performance of procalcitonin for bacterial infection in severe alcoholic hepatitis compared with C-reactive protein [PDF]
BMC GastroenterologyBackground Severe alcoholic hepatitis is a catastrophic disease with a mortality rate of up to 35–50% at 30 days. Bacterial infection is an important prognostic factor in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis, but it is difficult to detect the ...
Min Kyu Kang +16 more
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Journal of Society of Surgeons of Nepal, 2022 Alcoholic hepatitis is a condition with high mortality and morbidity. It is routine to have infectious complications with alcoholic hepatitis. However, ischiorectal abscess with its unique management challenges has not been described in the literature ...
Bhavin Vasavada, Hardik Patel
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Subclinical versus advanced forms of alcohol-related liver disease: Need for early detection [PDF]
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2023 Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) consists of a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and pathological features, ranging from asymptomatic patients to decompensated cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Concepción Gómez-Medina +3 more
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Alcoholic Hepatitis: A Common Disease with Uncommon Presentation
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2020 Alcoholic liver disease is one of the leading causes of hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver failure, and hepatic carcinoma. Alcoholic hepatitis refers to the acute onset of symptomatic hepatitis.
Pratik Khatiwada +2 more
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Alcoholic Hepatitis Markedly Decreases the Capacity for Urea Synthesis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Data on quantitative metabolic liver functions in the life-threatening disease alcoholic hepatitis are scarce. Urea synthesis is an essential metabolic liver function that plays a key regulatory role in nitrogen homeostasis.
Emilie Glavind +6 more
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Архивъ внутренней медицины, 2022 Due to the high morbidity and mortality, the problem of severe alcoholic hepatitis has not lost its relevance to date. In the absence of specific therapy, the associated to him one-month survival rate is low, and mortality rates reach 30-50 %.
D. V. Garbuzenko
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Serum Acylcarnitines Associated with High Short-Term Mortality in Patients with Alcoholic Hepatitis
Biomolecules, 2021 Alcohol-related liver disease is one of the most prevalent liver diseases in the United States. Early stages of alcohol-related liver disease are characterized by accumulation of triglycerides in hepatocytes.
Bei Gao +3 more
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Recent advances in alcoholic hepatitis [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]
F1000Research, 2020 Alcoholic hepatitis is the severest clinical presentation of alcoholic liver disease. Lacking an effective pharmacologic treatment, alcoholic hepatitis is associated with a poor prognosis and its recovery relies mostly on abstinence.
Vikrant Rachakonda +2 more
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Pentoxifylline in the Treatment of Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis [PDF]
National Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2014 Background/Aim: It has recently been reported that treatment with pentoxifylline, an inhibitor of tumour necrosis factor, improves survival in severe alcoholic hepatitis.
Arun S +5 more
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