Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now recognized as a leading cause of liver dysfunction. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common disorder causing symptoms that often impair patients' quality of life. In recent years, the prevalence of both these diseases has increased, ...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a manifestation of an abnormality of metabolism within the liver. The liver is an important organ in the metabolism (handling) of fat. The liver makes and exports fat to other parts of the body. It also removes fat from the blood that has been released ...
Fatty liver disease (FLD) means you have extra fat in your liver. You might hear your doctor call it hepatic steatosis. Most of the time, it doesn't cause symptoms, but over time a buildup of fat makes it harder for your liver to work. With diet and exercise, fatty liver disease ca...
Fatty liver disease may be hard to diagnose because many people do not have any symptoms. Tests the doctor may order if they suspect a patient has fatty liver include blood tests to monitor for elevated liver enzymes, ultrasound, and computed tomography (CT) scan. Elastography is a test that...
Early symptoms of the disease are mild and much of the time are unnoticed by patients and doctors. A general feeling of malaise and fatigue can develop in individuals, along with mild jaundice. However, as symptoms become more severe, enlargement of the liver and spleen is commonplace, along ...
The diagnosis of NAFLD can be challenging because patients are typically asymptomatic, with no major clinical symptoms of liver disease. Overweight and obese children are at the highest risk for disease. (1)(2) On the basis of moderate research and consensus, serum ALT is usually mildly ...
for metabolic diseases and conditions including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and obstructive sleep apnoea... RA Weiner - Adipositas - Ursachen Folgeerkrankungen Therapie 被引量: 15发表: 2012年 Dysphoric symptoms in chronic alcoholics and the effect...
Neurological complications are quite frequent in patients after solid organ transplantation presenting with focal or generalized neurologic symptoms as well as altered mental status. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is a rare cliniconeuroradiological entity characterized by headache, altered mental ...
The Symptoms One of the most crucial problems associated with this disease is absence of symptoms. In other words, a person may feel healthy enough and have no perceptible liver problems, but still suffer from NAFLD. In such cases, the disease is usually diagnosed, when a patient undergoes a...
can significantly and rapidly decrease liver fat content in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). The findings, they say, represent an important proof-of-concept for the compound as there are currently no Food and Drug Administration-approved...