While the liver is one of the body's most resilient organs, it is still vulnerable to the ravages of stress and aging, leading to disease, severe scarring and failure. A Duke Health research team now might have found a way to turn back time and restore the liver. In experiments using ...
A method for treating and inhibiting non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), steatosis, lobular inflammation, liver hypertrophy, and liver scar scars. An effective amount of a compound of the formula: or a metabolite thereof, an ester of the compound of ...
One form of "liver disease", known as Cirrhosis, is caused by damage to liver cells (drinking too much alcohol is one cause). Genetic disease - A genetic disease is caused by a coding error in the DNA. The coding error causes too much or too little of certain proteins to be made, ...
Accurately staging liver fibrosis is crucial for treatment decisions and prognostication in HIV-infected patients with liver disease. Liver biopsy is currently the gold standard for determining the stage of liver fibrosis. There are risks associated with liver biopsy; therefore, surrogate markers to pred...
Alcohol can pass through the placenta and umbilical cord, so drinking at any time during pregnancy can cause health problems for the fetus. There is no safe timeto drink alcohol during pregnancy. Drinking alcohol can increase the risk of premature birth, brain damage, growth and development probl...
Most people don’t notice they have it until many years later when much of the damage has been done. Your doctor can test to see if you have it. 4/15 Take Your Meds Right Though acetaminophen is the most common medication that can harm your liver, other meds can do that, too -- ...
Here are some ways to keep your liver healthy: Don't drink a lot of alcohol. It can damage liver cells and lead to the swelling or scarring that becomes cirrhosis, which can be deadly. How much alcohol is too much? U.S. government guidelines say men should drink no more than two dr...
Over the last two decades, the understanding of how dysregulated ion channels and transporters are involved in carcinogenesis and tumor growth and progression, including invasiveness and metastasis, has been increasing exponentially. The present review s
Transient elastometry (TE) is accurate for detecting significant liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-monoinfected patients. However, this procedure has been insufficiently validated in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and HCV co-infection. The diagnostic accuracy of...
DKA is a diabetic emergency that happens when you don't have enough insulin and your liver has to break down fat into substances called ketones for energy. This can result in a change in blood chemistry that causes unpleasant symptoms and even be fatal. DKA is the most common complication ...