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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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Hepatic progenitor cells from adult human livers for cell transplantation. [PDF]

, 2008
Objective: Liver regeneration is mainly based on cellular self-renewal including progenitor cells. Efforts have been made to harness this potential for cell transplantation, but shortage of hepatocytes and premature differentiated progenitor cells ...
Aurich, H., Brockhoff, G., Christ, B., Jauch, Karl-Walter, Kirchner, S., Kunz-Schughart, L.A., Lichtenauer, M., Schlitt, H.-J., Stock, P., Thasler, Wolfgang E., Weiss, T.S.   +10 more
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Predictors of liver failure in primary biliary cirrhosis

Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2014
The disease progression of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) varies significantly, and the prognostic markers that identify those patients who will develop liver failure have been scarcely studied from a Chinese cohort. Aims. We aimed to determine the predictive factors of liver failure in patients with PBC.Patients who were first diagnosed
Zhao, Pan, Liu, Wei-wei, Li, Jin-feng, Wang, Chun-ya, Wang, Hao, Xu, Jun, Wang, Rui-fang, Yang, Hao-zhen, Jin, Cheng, Wei, Zhen-man   +9 more
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Changing perspectives on liver transplantation in 1988. [PDF]

, 1988
After liver transplantation for cancer, there is a high incidence of disease recurrence within 18 to 36 months for most tumors, although there are a small number of long-term survivors.
Gordon, RD, Starzl, TE
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Cirrosis biliar primaria: patología subdiagnosticada. Reporte de caso

Revista Médica Hondureña
Introduction: Primary biliary cirrhosis is a chronic, cholestatic, autoimmune, and progressive liver disease that pre-dominantly affects women.
Delmy Saraí Castillo Álvarez, Alejandra María Sosa, Diana Magoe Meza   +2 more
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Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis: Current Insights and Impact on Quality of Life

Hepatic Medicine: Evidence and Research, 2021
Tarika Sivakumar, Kris V Kowdley Liver Institute Northwest Seattle, Seattle, WA, USACorrespondence: Kris V KowdleyLiver Institute Northwest, 3216 NE 45th Pl, Suite 212, Seattle, WA, 98105, Tel +1 206-536-3030Fax +1 206-524-0749Email kkowdley ...
Sivakumar T, Kowdley KV
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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, Bacon, Bruce, Bowlus, Christopher L, Dorenbaum, Alejandro, Gu, Joan, Hirschfield, Gideon M, Jones, David, Kennedy, Ciara, Levy, Cynthia, Luketic, Velimir, Mayo, Marlyn J, Medendorp, Sharon, Novak, Patricia, Patanwala, Imran, Pockros, Paul J, Vuppalanchi, Raj   +15 more
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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis in the Era of Liver Transplantation

Annals of Transplantation, 2014
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune disease of the liver, characterized by the presence of antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA) and progressive immune-mediated destruction of biliary ductules, which lead to cirrhosis. Theories of the PBC etiopathogenesis assume that the disease develops secondarily as an improper immunological reaction to ...
Joanna, Raczyńska, Andrzej, Habior, Leszek, Pączek, Bartosz, Foroncewicz, Andrzej, Pawełas, Krzysztof, Mucha   +5 more
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Preventative care in cholestatic liver disease: Pearls for the specialist and subspecialist

Liver Research, 2019
Cholestatic liver diseases (CLDs) encompass a variety of disorders of abnormal bile formation and/or flow. CLDs often lead to progressive hepatic insult and injury and following the development of cirrhosis and associated complications.
Adnan Malik, Ani A. Kardashian, Kais Zakharia, Christopher L. Bowlus, James H. Tabibian   +4 more
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Primary biliary cholangitis – a new nosological unit in the classification of liver diseases (literature review and own clinical observation)

Медицинский совет, 2019
Identification of changes in biochemical parameters of liver functional activity during screening studies requires additional examination of the patient in order to determine the genesis of the disease.
T. V. Penkina, E. A. Shikina, D. T. Dicheva, O. E. Berezutskaya, N. L. Golovkina, L. G. Bektemirova, D. N. Andreev, S. A. Karaulov   +7 more
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