PLoS ONE, 2017 Background Sarcopenia is a common syndrome in chronic diseases such as liver cirrhosis. The association between sarcopenia and outcomes, such as complications and survival has recently been described in various patient groups.
Gaeun Kim, S. Kang, M. Kim, S. Baik
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Implantable prosthetic pump boosts blood pressure: A concept [PDF]
, 1975 Prosthetic pump is proposed which can improve liver blood supply by boosting blood pressure locally to the organ.
Fish, J. W.
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A gut microbiome signature for cirrhosis due to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Nature Communications, 2019 The presence of cirrhosis in nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease (NAFLD) is the most important predictor of liver-related mortality. Limited data exist concerning the diagnostic accuracy of gut-microbiome-derived signatures for detecting NAFLD-cirrhosis ...
C. Caussy +15 more
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Magnetic Resonance Elastography and Portal Hypertension: Influence of the Portal Venous Flow on the Liver Stiffness [PDF]
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Europe-China Symposium, Strasbourg 2-4 Oct 2019, In press, 2020 The invasive measurement of the hepatic venous pressure gradient is still considered as the reference method to assess the severity of portal hypertension. Even though previous studies have shown that the liver stiffness measured by elastography could predict portal hypertension in patients with chronic liver disease, the mechanisms behind remain today
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The risk of bleeding and encephalopathy in surgical patients with liver cirrhosis [PDF]
, 2019 Liver cirrhosis is a disease with an increasing incidence. Surgical procedures in patients with cirrhosis are also increasing, due to a longer life expectancy in these patients and also to the improvement of therapeutic and diagnostic resources ...
Bacalbașa, Nicolae +9 more
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Child–Pugh Versus MELD Score for the Assessment of Prognosis in Liver Cirrhosis
Medicine, 2016 Child–Pugh and MELD scores have been widely used for the assessment of prognosis in liver cirrhosis. A systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to compare the discriminative ability of Child–Pugh versus MELD score to assess the prognosis of cirrhotic ...
Ying Peng, X. Qi, Xiaozhong Guo
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Drug interaction study in hospitalized hepatic cirrhosis patient in Dr.Ramelan navy hospital [PDF]
, 2009 Cirrhotic liver lead to some changes in pathophysiology such as reduction in liver blood flow, decrease some metabolic and synthetic function of the liver. Also there is a change in endothelial lining from hepatic sinusoid.
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Elevated serum myostatin level is associated with worse survival in patients with liver cirrhosis
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2017 We aimed to elucidate the relationship between serum myostatin levels and other markers including skeletal muscle mass and to investigate the influence of serum myostatin levels on survival for patients with liver cirrhosis (LC).
H. Nishikawa +17 more
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A validation study of the CirCom comorbidity score in an English cirrhosis population using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: The CirCom score has been developed from Danish data as a specific measure of comorbidity for cirrhosis to predict all-cause mortality. We compared its performance with the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) in an English cirrhosis population ...
Crooks, Colin J. +2 more
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Gastroenterology, 2017 BACKGROUND & AIMS Concurrent to development of more effective drugs for treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, there has been an increase in the incidence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
D. Goldberg +6 more
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