Cirrhosis is a condition in which scar tissue gradually replaces your healthy liver cells. It usually happens over a long period, often due to infection, other diseases, or alcohol addiction. Most of the time, you can't fix the damage to your liver. But if you catch it early, some trea...
Cirrhosis is a condition in which scar tissue gradually replaces your healthy liver cells. It usually happens over a long period, often due to infection, other diseases, or alcohol addiction. Most of the time, you can't fix the damage to your liver. But if you catch it early, some trea...
Ascites, accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity, between the membrane lining the abdominal wall and the membrane covering the abdominal organs. The most common causes of ascites are cirrhosis of the liver, heart failure, tumours of the peritoneal
only a small amount of blood is supplied to the liver by arteries. Most of the liver's supply of blood comes from the intestinal veins as the blood returns to theheart. The main vein that returns blood from the intestinesis called the portal vein. As the portal vein passes through the...
Dear Dr. Donohue: I would like information on alcohol-caused cirrhosis of the liver. My husband was diagnosed with this on the basis of blood work only. He was told he would be having a biopsy soon. Can cirrhosis be accurately diagnosed on the basis of blood tests? How is a biopsy ...
High Rate of Infectivity and Liver Disease in Blood Donors with Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus OBJECTIVE: To determine the epidemiologic, clinical, serologic, and histologic importance of antibodies to hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) in blood donors. DE... Esteban,J Ignacio - 《Annals of Internal...
The following case is reported in the hope that it may possibly throw new light on a group of patients who have been described as having a blood picture resembling that of pernicious anemia, but who have the ability to secrete hydrochloric acid in their stomachs. REPORT OF A CASE History. ...
1)liver cirrhosis/blood肝硬化/血液 2)schistosomal cirrhosis血吸虫性肝硬化 1.Methods CNP levels were measured in 30 normal subjects, 25 cases of posthepatitic cirrhosis (PC) and 40 cases ofschistosomal cirrhosis(SC) by radioimmunoassay.方法 :用放免法测定了 30例正常人 ,40例血吸虫性肝硬化患者 ,...
Since there is apparently no published report of the quantitative measurement of the shunted flow of blood in liver cirrhosis, we have devised methods of measuring the intrahepatic and extrahepatic shunted flow in clinical cases. In this communication, the methods are presented for measuring the ...
Faecal or intestinal microbiota transplantation: the future is here Intestinal microbiota transplantation in patients with chronic liver disease Human experience of IMT in chronic liver disease Future directions Financial support Conflict of interest Authors' contributions Supplementary data ReferencesShow full ...