Skin changes of liver cirrhosis are not specific, as they may be seen in disorders not involving the liver. Thus, a constellation of skin changes along with systemic features may help us to identify the disease-causing liver cirrhosis. Pruritus is one of the most common and distressful ...
Skin changes in cirrhosis. J Clin Exp Hepatol. 2022;12(4):1215–24. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Pearson HJ, Mosser JL, Jacks SK. The triad of pruritus, xanthomas, and cholestasis: two cases and a brief review of the literature. Pediatr Dermatol. 2017;34(6):e305–8. Article ...
We present the case of a 45-year-old male with alcoholic liver cirrhosis Child-Pugh C and chronic left lower limb lymphedema, hospitalized because of ascites and renal impairment (Cr 2.33 mg/dl). He received intravenous albumin and terlipressin (1 mg every 4h) for suspected hepatorenal syndrome...
Brownish hyperpigmentation of the skin, seen in Addison's disease and hemochromatosis, some cases of diabetes mellitus, and cirrhosis. deciduous skin Keratolysis. elastic skin Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. foreign bodies in the skin Objects that enter the skin accidentally or are inserted deliberately. The ...
Skin changes can manifest in the prediabetic stage, in the acute metabolic situation and in the late diabetic degenerative stage. Aim: To study the prevalence and pattern of cutaneous manifestations among diabetic patients to aid in better management of diabetic skin diseases. Patients and Methods:...
[Relevance of palpatory, mammographic and thermographic assessment criteria in benign and malignant structural changes in the female breast] The correlation between clinical findings, mammography and thermography on the one hand and histological structure of the breast on the other hand, was inv... ...
congenital cyanotic heart diseases and is less frequent in other conditions depicted in Box 1, such as cirrhosis of the liver, inflammatory bowel disease, gastrointestinal polyposis, thymoma, achalasia, and polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal proteins, and skin changes (POEMS) ...
Fibrosis itself causes no symptoms, and it can be difficult to diagnose as imaging tests often fail to detect any changes until the scarring is extensive. The only indication at this stage may be abnormalities in blood tests used to evaluate liver function.2 Cirrhosis As scar tissues increas...
3.1. Topical IMQ induced an inflammatory phenotype in mouse skin To examine the metabolic effects of skin inflammation, we utilised the IMQ-mouse model. Consistent with previous studies [36,37], IMQ treatment replicated many of the phenotypic changes observed in human psoriasis, including erythema ...
Metformin and insulin resistance: A review of the underlying mechanisms behind changes in GLUT4-mediated glucose transport. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 1264. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Vieira, I.H.; Barros, L.M.; Baptista, C.F.; Rodrigues, D.M.; Paiva, I.M. ...