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Liver Fibrosis in Alcoholic Liver Disease

Seminars in Liver Disease, 2015
Excessive alcohol consumption causes a wide spectrum of liver disease, ranging from simple steatosis to severe forms of liver injury such as steatohepatitis, liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. Moreover, alcohol consumption also accelerates liver fibrosis in patients with other types of liver diseases such as viral hepatitis and nonalcoholic ...
Ramon, Bataller, Bin, Gao
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Liver Transplant for Cholestatic Liver Diseases

Clinics in Liver Disease, 2013
Cholestatic liver diseases include a group of diverse disorders with different epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical course, and prognosis. Despite significant advances in the clinical care of patients with cholestatic liver diseases, liver transplant (LT) remains the only definitive therapy for end-stage liver disease, regardless of the underlying ...
Andres F, Carrion, Kalyan Ram, Bhamidimarri   +1 more
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Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease

Transplantation, 2016
Alcohol-related liver disease is the second most frequent indication for liver transplantation (LT), yet as many as 90% to 95% of patients with alcohol-related end-stage liver disease are never formally evaluated for LT. Furthermore, despite its significance as a cause of chronic liver disease and indication for LT, it has received little attention in ...
Addolorato, Giovanni, Bataller, Ramón, BURRA, PATRIZIA, Dimartini, Andrea, Graziadei, Ivo, Lucey, Michael R., Mathurin, Philippe, Oʼgrady, John, Pageaux, Georges, Berenguer, Marina   +9 more
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Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Disease of the Liver

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 1988
Hepatic transplantation for metabolic or genetic diseases of the liver produces a definite cure of the liver disease and also effectively cures the underlying metabolic abnormalities of the genetic disease in question. Liver transplantation is highly likely to become the current treatment of choice for a wide variety of metabolic disorders based ...
C O, Esquivel, I R, Marino, V, Fioravanti, D H, Van Thiel   +3 more
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Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

Clinical Transplantation, 1996
AbstractOrthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) for individuals with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) remains controversial. This review was designed to evaluate the survival, recidivism, and rehabilitation of the alcoholic liver transplant recipient in a single transplant center. Methods: Between 10/86 and 11/92 203 liver transplants were performed in 179
G B, Zibari, D, Edwin, L, Wall, A, Diehl, J, Fair, J, Burdick, A, Klein   +6 more
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Polycystic liver disease

1996
Abstract The term ‘Polycystic liver disease’ (PLO) is often used to describe a condition with numerous cysts scattered throughout the liver parenchyma (Poinso et al. 1954; Melnick 1955; Peltokallio 1970; Sanfelippo et al. 1974; Vauthey et al. 1991).
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PROSTAGLANDINS IN LIVER DISEASE AND LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 1996
This brief review summarizes the physiology and pharmacology of eicosanoids and describes how they have been tested for possible application in liver disease and transplantation. The objective is to trace the stepwise application from the laboratory to the bedside.
M J, Ruwart, K S, Henley
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Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 1993
Alcoholism is a disease of remission and relapse. A lapse in abstinence tends to be viewed as a failure to commit to abstinence, and an acknowledged relapse may lead to the patient's removal from the liver transplant list; however, such a relapse may actually offer insight into alcoholism.
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LIVER TRANSPLANTATION FOR METABOLIC LIVER DISEASES

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1999
Liver transplantation has revolutionized the outcome of metabolic liver diseases that are caused by defects in hepatocytes (e.g., Wilson's disease) or by excessive deposition of substrates secondary to their increased absorption (e.g., hemochromatosis). Early diagnosis and referral are the keys to successful outcome. The timing of liver transplantation
A, Khanna, A, Jain, B, Eghtesad, J, Rakela   +3 more
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Liver Transplantation for Metabolic Liver Diseases

Clinics in Liver Disease, 2007
Liver transplantation has become an accepted treatment for several metabolic liver diseases. With advances in organ transplantation and immunosuppressive strategies, survival rates following liver transplantation are generally excellent. When the primary metabolic defect is hepatic in origin, liver transplantation not only replaces the dysfunctional ...
Kristine Y, Zhang, Bruce Y, Tung, Kris V, Kowdley   +2 more
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