It has taught a great deal about acute diffuse diseases of the liver, and physicians are beginning to acquire more definite knowledge of that important chronic disease cirrhosis, but clinicians as yet have done little to improve their diagnostic acumen regarding the early stages of cirrhosis, in ...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common liver diseases in affluent countries. Accurate noninvasive tests for liver injury are urgently needed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of transient elastography for the diagnosis of fibrosis and cirrhosis in pa...
: Significance of splenic volume measurement using ultrasonography Aims: To date, there is no acceptable criteria of spleen size for the clinical diagnosis of liver cirrhosis even though the recent Baveno consensus states splenomegaly is an adjunctive finding to define liver cirrhosis. We evaluated how...
Development and validation of an integrated model for the diagnosis of liver cirrhosis with portal vein thrombosis combined with endoscopic characters and blood biochemistry data: a retrospective propensity score matching (PSM) cohort study Jie Yang, Xu Zhang, Jia Chen, Xianghong Hou, Minghong ...
41 male patients suffering from generalised edema due to various causes including 7 cases of congestive cardiac failure, 6 cases of malnutrition and 28 cases of hepatic cirrhosis were treated with metolazone given orally in a dose varying from 5 to 60 mg per day. The optimum effective dose ...
which assays for alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), is ~60%5. Imaging tests such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and ultrasonography (US) have high sensitivity and specificity for liver cancer detection, especially in patients with liver cirrhosis6. Such imaging tests, howev...
作者: WJ Gastroenterol 摘要: Ascites is one of the major complications of liver cirrhosis and is associated with a poor prognosis. It is important to distinguish noncirrhotic from cirrhotic causes of ascites to guide therapy in patients with noncirrhotic ascites. 被引量: 7 年份: 2014 收藏...
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) using microbubble contrast agents are useful for the diagnosis of the nodules in liver cirrhosis. CEUS can be used as a problem-solving method for indeterminate nodules on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or as an initial diagnostic ...
Liver damage, leading to cirrhosis of the liver Liver cancer Symptoms of cutaneous porphyria With most variants of cutaneous porphyria, you may get blisters and your skin may scrape and bruise more easily when your skin is exposed to sunlight. These changes will most likely be on skin that get...
Diagnosis of cirrhosis in patients with congestive heart failure by transyugular liver biopsy: Predictive value of liver damage by echocardiogram and hepatic pressures: . Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia “Ignacio Chávez”, Mexico CityShow moreShow less...