Successful Distancing: Telemedicine in Gastroenterology and Hepatology During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 2021 Telemedicine involves delivering healthcare and preventative care services to patients without the need for in-person encounters. Traditionally, telemedicine has been used for acute events (e.g., stroke, used to relay essential information to the ...
A. Perisetti, H. Goyal
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Microenvironment and tumor cells: two targets for new molecular therapies of hepatocellular carcinoma. [PDF]
, 2018 Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), is one of the most frequent human cancer and is characterized by a high mortality rate. The aggressiveness appears strictly related to the liver pathological background on which cancer develops.
Amicone, Laura, Marchetti, Alessandra
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A Randomized, Controlled, Phase 2 Study of Maralixibat in the Treatment of Itching Associated With Primary Biliary Cholangitis. [PDF]
, 2019 Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is typically associated with elevated serum bile acid levels and pruritus, but pruritus is often refractory to treatment with existing therapies.
Apostol, George +15 more
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eLife, 2019 Recent studies have identified a genetic variant rs641738 near two genes encoding membrane bound O-acyltransferase domain-containing 7 (MBOAT7) and transmembrane channel-like 4 (TMC4) that associate with increased risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver ...
Robert N Helsley +32 more
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Antiviral treatment alters the frequency of activating and inhibitory receptor-expressing natural killer cells in chronic Hepatitis B virus infected patients [PDF]
, 2012 Natural killer (NK) cells play a critical role in innate antiviral immunity, but little is known about the impact of antiviral therapy on the frequency of NK cell subsets.
Chi, X. +12 more
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Annals of Hepatology, 2014 Survey of health status, nutrition and geography of food selection of chronic liver disease ...
Bedogni, Giorgio, TIRIBELLI, CLAUDIO
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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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World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2021 Artificial intelligence (AI) is an umbrella term used to describe a cluster of interrelated fields. Machine learning (ML) refers to a model that learns from past data to predict future data.
C. Christou, G. Tsoulfas
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Development and Pilot of a Checklist for Management of Acute Liver Failure in the Intensive Care Unit [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction Acute liver failure (ALF) is an ideal condition for use of a checklist. Our aims were to develop a checklist for the management of ALF in the intensive care unit (ICU) and assess the usability of the checklist among multiple providers ...
Acute Liver Failure Study Group, +10 more
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Bile Acid Receptor Therapeutics Effects on Chronic Liver Diseases [PDF]
, 2020 In the past ten years, our understanding of the importance of bile acids has expanded from fat absorption and glucose/lipid/energy homeostasis into potential therapeutic targets for amelioration of chronic cholestatic liver diseases.
Alpini, Gianfranco +4 more
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