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Epidemiology of chronic liver diseases in the USA in the past three decades

Gut, 2019
Objective Given significant advances in treatment of viral hepatitis and the growing epidemic of obesity, the burden of the different types of liver diseases in the USA may be changing. Our aim was to assess the shift in the prevalence of different liver
Z. Younossi, M. Stepanova, Youssef Younossi, P. Golabi, A. Mishra, Nila Rafiq, L. Henry   +6 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 macrophages in healthy and diseased liver

Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, 2017
Kupffer cells, the largest tissue resident macrophage population, are key for the maintenance of liver integrity and its restoration after injury and infections, as well as the local initiation and resolution of innate and adaptive immunity. These important roles of Kupffer cells were recently identified in healthy and diseased liver revealing diverse ...
Zeinab, Abdullah, Percy A, Knolle
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Liver Disease of the Alcoholic

Medical Clinics of North America, 1975
Significant liver disease including fatty metamorphosis, alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatoma occur in two thirds of subjects who consume alcoholic beverages in sufficient quantities to interfere with work and social responsibilities; this is of major importance in the rapidly escalating morbidity and mortality from alcoholism.
C M, Leevy, C H, Tamburro, R, Zetterman
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Biomarkers of liver diseases

Molecular Biology Reports, 2023
Sukhbir Singh Tamber, Palak Bansal, Suraj A. Sharma, Raibarinder Singh, Ramica Sharma   +4 more
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Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Signaling in Chronic Liver Diseases.

Gastroenterology, 2018
Mitochondria regulate hepatic lipid metabolism and oxidative stress. Ultrastructural mitochondrial lesions, altered mitochondrial dynamics, decreased activity of respiratory chain complexes, and impaired ability to synthesize adenosine triphosphate are ...
A. Mansouri, Charles-Henry Gattolliat, T. Asselah   +2 more
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Rheumatologic Diseases and the Liver

Clinics in Liver Disease, 2019
A variety of rheumatologic disorders may affect the liver. There is a significant epidemiologic, genetic, and immunologic overlap between immune-mediated rheumatologic disorders and autoimmune liver diseases. There is an increased frequency of autoimmune liver diseases, such as primary biliary cholangitis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary sclerosing ...
Agazi, Gebreselassie, Farshad, Aduli, Charles D, Howell   +2 more
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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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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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