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Liver Transplantation for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis [PDF]

Seminars in Liver Disease, 1989
Liver transplantation is an effective treatment for PBC. The Pittsburgh experience is reported, with 1- and 5-year survival of 75.62% and 70.71%, respectively. Recurrence of PBC, when it occurs, has not been of clinical significance. Transplantation markedly improves chances for survival, an advantage that is demonstrable in all of the risk groups ...
Tzakis, Andreas, Carcassonne, Christian, Todo, Satoru, Makowka, Leonard, Starzl, Thomas   +4 more
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Recurrent Primary Biliary Cirrhosis After Liver Transplantation [PDF]

American Journal of Transplantation, 2010
Recurrent primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an important clinical outcome after liver transplantation (LT) in selected patients. Prevalence rates for recurrent PBC (rPBC) reported by individual LT programs range between 9% and 35%. The diagnostic hallmark of rPBC is histologic identification of granulomatous changes.
M G, Silveira, J A, Talwalkar, K D, Lindor, R H, Wiesner   +3 more
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Osteoporosis in primary biliary cirrhosis of the liver

Gastroenterology Review, 2014
Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disease associated with a reduction in bone mass and deterioration of bone architecture, leading to increased fragility and subsequent low-trauma fractures in the vertebral column, hip, forearm and other bones. In literature, metabolic bone diseases such as osteoporosis and osteomalacia have been recognised as a ...
Raszeja-Wyszomirska, Joanna, Miazgowski, Tomasz   +1 more
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Analysis of the odds ratio of developmental delay in children with biliary atresia 12 months after liver transplantation

Вестник трансплантологии и искусственных органов, 2022
Background. Liver cirrhosis occurring before 1 year of age can affect a child’s development. Liver transplantation is the only radical treatment for decompensated cirrhosis. In biliary atresia, cirrhosis develops during the first months of life.
A. V. Syrkina, O. M. Tsirulnikova, I. E. Pashkova, O. V. Silina, E. V. Chekletsova, S. Yu. Oleshkevich   +5 more
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Primary biliary cirrhosis and liver transplantation [PDF]

Intractable & Rare Diseases Research, 2012
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an immune-mediated chronic progressive inflammatory liver disease, predominantly affecting middle-aged women, characterized by the presence of antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs), which can lead to liver failure. Genetic contributions, environmental factors including chemical and infectious xenobiotics, autoimmunity ...
Nobuhisa, Akamatsu, Yasuhiko, Sugawara
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An interesting case report of delayed presentation of post-cholecystectomy benign biliary stricture

Egyptian Liver Journal, 2023
Background The most common cause of benign biliary stricture is bile duct injury after cholecystectomy. Benign biliary strictures are associated with a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms, ranging from subclinical disease with mild elevation of liver ...
Kulbhushan Haldeniya, Niranjan Rajkumar Gandhi, Haritha Gorantla, Sindhura Bukka   +3 more
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Current and emerging adjuvant therapies in biliary atresia

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
Following Kasai hepatic portoenterostomy (HPE), most patients with biliary atresia will eventually require liver transplantation due to progressive cirrhosis and liver failure.
Scott C. Fligor, Thomas I. Hirsch, Savas T. Tsikis, Andrew Adeola, Mark Puder   +4 more
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A paradigm shift in non-viral liver cirrhosis: a multicenter study on clinicoepidemiological characteristics and outcome of non-B non-C cirrhosis

Egyptian Liver Journal, 2023
Background Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) and B viruses (HBV) represent the commonest global causes of liver cirrhosis. Other etiologies of non-viral cirrhosis such as autoimmune, metabolic, vascular, or biliary diseases are underestimated. The study aimed to
Haidi Karam-Allah Ramadan, Fathiya El-Raey, Samy Zaky, Asmaa Bakr, El-Zahraa M. Meghezel, Shamardan Ezzeldin S. Bazeed, Rehab Badawi, Sherief Abd-Elsalam, Mohamed Elbadry, Mahmoud Hagag, Mohamed Zakaria Abu Rahma   +10 more
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LIVER DISEASE IN CHILDREN WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Pediatrics, 2014
Liver disease is an early complication in children with cystic fi brosis (CF).The clinical manifestations in hepatobiliary disease of CF include neonatal cholestasis, liver steatosis, liver fi brosis, biliary lithiasis, focal biliary cirrhosis and ...
Laura Mihaela Trandafir, Iulia Straticiuc Ciongradi, Ginel Baciu, Dana Teodora Anton Păduraru   +3 more
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Transplantation of human fetal biliary tree stem/progenitor cells into two patients with advanced liver cirrhosis

BMC Gastroenterology, 2014
BackgroundEfforts to identify cell sources and approaches for cell therapy of liver diseases are ongoing, taking into consideration the limits recognized for adult liver tissue and for other forms of stem cells.
V. Cardinale, G. Carpino, R. Gentile, C. Napoletano, H. Rahimi, A. Franchitto, R. Semeraro, M. Nuti, P. Onori, P. Berloco, M. Rossi, D. Bosco, R. Brunelli, A. Fraveto, C. Napoli, A. Torrice, M. Gatto, R. Venere, C. Bastianelli, C. Aliberti, F. Salvatori, L. Bresadola, M. Bezzi, A. Attili, L. Reid, E. Gaudio, D. Alvaro   +26 more
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