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The Role of Liver Biopsy in the Management of Patients with Liver Disease

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2003
The role of liver biopsy in the diagnosis and management of liver disease is a controversial issue even among hepatologists. Although most causes of elevated liver enzymes can be determined, or at least suspected, on the basis of a careful history and ...
Florence Wong
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Relationship Between Serum Iron Profile and Liver Density in Non-Enhanced CT-Scan

Acta Medica Iranica, 2020
It is known that liver biopsy is the gold standard of diagnosing liver iron deposition. By considering liver biopsy complication and cost, introducing a method to restrict unnecessary biopsy or even an alternative for liver biopsy can be useful.
Alireza Aziz-Ahari, Mohammadreza Khaleghi, Zahra Farahani, Kaveh Samimi   +3 more
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Carcinomatous cirrhosis as radiographically occult liver metastases of breast cancer: A systematic literature review

Cancer Treatment and Research Communications, 2021
In the present study, we aimed to clarify features of carcinomatous cirrhosis from breast cancer presenting as refractory transudate ascites and acute liver failure. In our systematic literature review, we identified 26 studies and 31 cases including our
Hideko Hoshina, Hiroyuki Takei, Masanori Nakamura, Fumiya Nishimoto, Shotaro Hanamura   +4 more
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A clinicopathological study of human liver allograft recipients harboring preformed IgG lymphocytotoxic antibodies [PDF]

, 1992
Twenty‐six adult patients with preformed IgG donor lymphocytotoxic antibodies received primary liver allografts under FK 506 immunosuppression. The effect of the crossmatch‐positive state on early graft function and on the immunopathological and ...
Batts, Bird, Busch, Cerilli, Demetris, Demetris, Demetris, Dempster, Donaldson, Eggink, Giles, Gordon, Gubernatis, Gugenheim, Gugenheim, Hanto, Houssin, Ito, Iwaki, Iwatsuki, Kakizoe, Kissmeyer-Nielsen, Knechtle, Okuno, Simpson, Snover, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Starzl, Takaya, Takaya, Takaya, Terada, Terasaki, Todo, Weber, Williams   +40 more
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Prospective comparison of transient elastography and liver biopsy for the assessment of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C infection

The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2015
HCV is a worldwide problem and the need to assess the degree of fibrosis is the corner stone in its treatment. Liver biopsy has been used for years to assess the degree of fibrosis and activity but recently many non-invasive methods have emerged to ...
Ahmed H.K. Abdelmaksoud, Mohamed El_Sayed Taha, Mohamed El Kassas, Reem E. Mahdy, Gamal El-Din Esmat Mohamed, Hany Ahmed Samy   +5 more
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Patient Determinants for Histologic Diagnosis of NAFLD in the Real World: A TARGET‐NASH Study

Hepatology Communications, 2021
Much of the current data on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are derived from biopsy‐based studies that may introduce ascertainment and selection bias. Selection of patients for liver biopsy has implications for clinical practice and the reported
A. Sidney Barritt, Stephanie Watkins, Norman Gitlin, Samuel Klein, Anna S. Lok, Rohit Loomba, Cheryl Schoen, K. Rajender Reddy, Huy Ngoc Trinh, Andrea R. Mospan, Miriam B. Vos, L. Michael Weiss, Kenneth Cusi, Brent A. Neuschwander‐Tetri, Arun J. Sanyal   +14 more
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Functional characterization of infiltrating T lymphocytes in human hepatic allografts [PDF]

, 1986
We have employed recently developed techniques in T-cell culturing to study the nature and function of infiltrating hepatic allograft T cells. Using the rationale that intragraft T cells are activated during cell mediated damage to the allograft, we were
Adriana Zeevi, Ascher, Bernard, Bono, Brodsky, Brodsky, Brodsky, Burdick, Burdick, Cerilli, Depper, Fiche, Goyert, HancocK, Harty, Hayry, Hoshinaga, Houssin, Iwatsuki, Iwatsuki, Iwatsuki, Jake Demetris, Jeannet, John J. Fung, Kim, Kolbeck, Lampson, Marboe, Mayer, Moreau, Palacios, Paradis, Pober, Rene J. Duquesnoy, Roberts, Shaw, Shunzaburo Iwatsuki, Snover, Spits, Starzl, Steinmuller, Stelzer, Strassman, Thomas E. Starzl, Thompson, Thorley-Lawson, Tilney, van Es, Weintraub, Zeevi, Zeevi, Zeevi, Zeevi, Zeevi   +53 more
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Liver biopsies in pediatric patients—a histopathological review of common entities

Journal of Renal and Hepatic Disorders
With the advent of sophisticated non-invasive assays and advanced radiologic techniques, there has been a significant evolution in the role of liver biopsy in the evaluation and management of hepatic diseases.
Maria Kamal, Zhongxin Yu, Neha Varshney
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Transjugular Liver Biopsy: Results of 97 Patients

Balkan Medical Journal, 2012
Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of transjugular liver biopsy in patients with contraindicated percutaneous biopsy.Materials and Methods: Between June 2005 and April 2010, 97 patients who were admitted for transjugular liver biopsy ...
Kemal Deniz, Ertuğrul Mavili, Nevzat Özcan, Güven Kahriman, Halil Dönmez   +4 more
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Reduced expression of chemerin in visceral adipose tissue associates with hepatic steatosis in patients with obesity [PDF]

, 2016
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate whether circulating levels and/or visceral adipose tissue (VAT) expression of recently described adipokines associate with histopathological severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), independent of ...
Alfadda, Behari, Bekaert, Bozaoglu, Brunt, Bugianesi, Chakaroun, Deng, Docke, Donnelly, Ehrlund, Fuster, Greulich, Gruben, Haukeland, Heiker, Kanda, Kim, Kleiner, Luangsay, Mahdi, Marchesini, Musso, Ouwens, Polyzos, Polyzos, Rivera, Saxena, Seki, Sell, Sell, Souza Batista, Wittamer, Wittamer, Wolfs, Wong, Yang, Yilmaz, Zelber-Sagi, Zeng   +39 more
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