Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Research questions liver disease prevalence in IBD
Do inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients have a higher prevalence of clinically significant liver disease?
Apr 7, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Ground-breaking scan may identify liver disease
A ground-breaking scan that can identify and help to treat liver disease, could make painful and invasive liver biopsies a thing of the past, thanks to a trial being led by the University of Birmingham.
Nov 26, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Fast, painless alternative to liver biopsies for hepatitis patients proves accurate and reliable
A non-invasive alternative to liver biopsy, now the standard method of diagnosing cirrhosis in hepatitis patients, proved very reliable in a national multi-center study including Henry Ford Hospital.
Oct 31, 2013
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Pediatrics
Imaging technique detects pediatric liver disease without need for needle biopsy
A new, non-invasive imaging technique, magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), can now help physicians accurately detect fibrosis (scarring) in children with chronic liver disease – a growing problem due in part to increasing ...
Sep 20, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Combination therapy for severe alcoholic hepatitis does not result in improved survival
Four weeks of treatment with a combination of the drug pentoxifylline and the corticosteroid prednisolone did not improve 6-month survival compared with prednisolone alone in 270 patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis, ...
Sep 10, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Weight loss surgery alters fatty liver disease genes
Research has shown that weight loss surgery can benefit obese individuals in ways that go beyond shedding pounds, for example by causing early remission of type 2 diabetes. Now scientists have found that the surgery can also ...
Aug 6, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New non-invasive test may detect liver disease earlier
Researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Unit in Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham will be showing ...
Jul 3, 2013
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Health
More patients getting lab-grown body parts
By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better chance at surgery. Her cystic fibrosis was threatening her life, ...
Jun 17, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Blood tests as good as biopsy for HCV-related disease
(HealthDay)—Compared to a liver biopsy, available blood tests are accurate for diagnosing fibrosis and cirrhosis in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to a review published in the June 4 issue of the Annals ...
Jun 4, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Cardiovascular issues up mortality rates in patients with advanced fibrosis
New research reveals that advanced fibrosis is a significant predictor of mortality in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), largely brought about by cardiovascular causes. NAFLD alone was not associated ...
Apr 10, 2013
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