Thanks to the introduction of direct-acting antivirals to combat Hepatitis C, the proportion of HCV-related cirrhosis fell during the observation period to around one third. On the other hand, the frequency of cirrhosis caused by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease quadrupled during the same period,...
1.Any of various chronic diseases of the liver characterized by the replacement of normal tissue with fibrous tissue and the loss of functional liver cells, resulting from a variety of causes that include chronic alcoholism and certain diseases and infections, especially hepatitis C. ...
Beginning with the current issue of the report, all age-adjusted death rates were computed based on the year 2000 standard population. Also, starting from mortality data for 1999, causes of death were classified by the Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). ...
Levels of alanine aminotransferase confound use of transient elastography to diagnose fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;10(8):932-937.e1. doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2012.01.015 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 69. Ripoll C, Groszmann...
Host factors that influence the progression from chronic hepatitis C virus infection to liver cirrhosis; 丙型肝炎病毒感染至肝硬变进程影响因素的分析 2. Effects of temporary hepatic inflow occlusion on hepatic energy metabolism of rats with liver cirrhosis; 入肝血流阻断对肝硬变大鼠肝脏能量代谢的影响...
cardiovascular and renal complications and a high rate of hepatic malignancies1. Major lifestyle and environmental risk factors for cirrhosis include chronic viral hepatitis, alcohol abuse and fatty liver disease. Mirroring the obesity pandemic, obesity-associated fatty liver disease is projected to soon...
24 Moreover, in the context of hepatitis progression, there has been an observed phenomenon of mosaic mutations contributing to a chronic inflammatory response, particularly in the presence of predominant stimuli. This leads to an intensified activation of proximal immune and fibrogenic pathways.25 ...
He had several bouts of hepatitis and jaundice since 2007, but always went back to the bottle. He functioned as an alcoholic all of the 30 years I’ve been on this planet. My childhood was explosive and I couldn’t wait to move away from him. He would never listen to me and he ...
Hospital admissions were categorised as 'cirrhosis admissions' based on recorded ICD‐10‐AM codes as previously described [26]. The accuracy of this algorithm for identification of patients with cirrhosis has been reported to have an 88% positive predictive and 76% negative predictive value [26]...
Incidence and prevalence of primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, and autoimmune hepatitis in a Norwegian population Scand J Gastroenterol, 33 (1998), pp. 99-103 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar [28] H. Rautiainen, V. Salomaa, S. Niemela, A.L. Karvonen, H. Nurmi, H. Isoni...