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Combi-Elasto Evaluation of the Degree of Liver Fibrosis in Children with Cholestatic Liver Disease
Cholestatic liver disease is a common liver disease in infants and young children. Liver fibrosis is a key factor affecting the prognosis, and liver transplantation is the only treatment option for liver cirrhosis.
Rina Li+8 more
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Liver Fibrosis: Mechanistic Concepts and Therapeutic Perspectives
Liver fibrosis due to viral or metabolic chronic liver diseases is a major challenge of global health. Correlating with liver disease progression, fibrosis is a key factor for liver disease outcome and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Natascha Roehlen+2 more
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Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a leading cause of chronic liver disease that can progress to liver fibrosis. Recent clinical advance suggests a reversibility of liver fibrosis, but the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying NASH resolution
Yuzo Koda+13 more
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Liver fibrosis is a key pathophysiology process in chronic liver disease. It is still unclear whether the impact of liver fibrosis is not fully realized in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and the ...
Chia-Yen Dai+4 more
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Hepatic macrophages: Key players in the development and progression of liver fibrosis
Hepatic fibrosis is a common pathological process involving persistent liver injury with various etiologies and subsequent inflammatory responses that occur in chronic liver diseases.
Da Cheng+5 more
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Epigenetics and Liver Fibrosis [PDF]
Liver fibrosis arises because prolonged injury combined with excessive scar deposition within hepatic parenchyma arising from overactive wound healing response mediated by activated myofibroblasts. Fibrosis is the common end point for any type of chronic liver injury including alcoholic liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis ...
Moran-Salvador E, Mann J
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(1) Background: This study aimed to correlate the indocyanine green clearance (ICG) test with histopathological grades of liver fibrosis and liver cirrhosis to assess its diagnostic accuracy in differentiating normal liver parenchyma from liver fibrosis ...
Lukas Luerken+9 more
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Mechanisms of liver fibrosis and its role in liver cancer
Hepatic fibrogenesis is a pathophysiological outcome of chronic liver injury hallmarked by excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins. Fibrosis is a dynamic process that involves cross-talk between parenchymal cells (hepatocytes), hepatic ...
D. Dhar+3 more
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The evaluation of liver fibrosis regression in chronic hepatitis C patients after the treatment with direct-acting antiviral agents – A review of the literature [PDF]
The second-generation of direct-acting antiviral agents are the current treatment for chronic viral hepatitis C infection. To evaluate the regression of liver fibrosis in patients receiving this therapy, liver biopsy remains the most accurate method, but
Alexescu, Teodora G+12 more
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Background & Aims: Liver fibrosis/cirrhosis is significant health burden worldwide, resulting in liver failure or cancer and accounting for many deaths each year.
Xiaolei Li+6 more
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