Serological studies in inflammatory bowel disease: how important are they? [0.03%]
炎症性肠病的血清学研究：有多重要？
Maria Papp,Peter L Lakatos
Maria Papp
Purpose of review: Serum antibodies have the potential role to assist in the diagnosis, disease stratification and prognostication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Understanding antibody formation might provide insigh...
Robert S Rahimi,Don C Rockey
Robert S Rahimi
Purpose of review: Hepatic encephalopathy causes significant cognitive impairment and morbidity in patients with cirrhosis; however, hepatic encephalopathy is considered a reversible syndrome once recognized clinically. A...
Michelle Pearlman,Rohit Loomba
Michelle Pearlman
Purpose of review: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common cause of chronic liver disease in Western countries, and consists of a spectrum of histopathological changes that range in severity from simple steato...
Don C Rockey
Don C Rockey
Hepatopulmonary syndrome [0.03%]
肝肺综合征
David G Koch,Michael B Fallon
David G Koch
Purpose of review: To discuss the advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of experimental and human hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) and in the management of HPS, particularly regarding liver transplantation. ...
Andreas Pascher,Undine Gerlach,Peter Neuhaus
Andreas Pascher
Purpose of review: Biliary complications account for relevant morbidity and mortality after liver transplantation. Advances have taken place in understanding their aetiology, in preventive operative techniques, imaging pr...
Ake Åndrén-Sandberg,Yang Deng
Ake Åndrén-Sandberg
Purpose of review: To discuss some key issues involved in the management of gallbladder cancer (GBC). Recent findings: The decline in i...
John E Eaton,Andrea A Gossard,Jayant A Talwalkar
John E Eaton
Purpose of review: Patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) are at an increased risk for cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). Distinguishing benign from malignant biliary strictures with routine biliary cytology in this po...
Avegail Flores,Marlyn J Mayo
Avegail Flores
Purpose of review: Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) was first described in the 1950s as a clinical syndrome of progressive cholestatic liver disease resulting from chronic inflammatory destruction of the intrahepatic bile ...
Keyur Patel,Nicholas A Shackel
Keyur Patel
Purpose of review: Improved understanding of the pathophysiology of fibrosis and recent technological advances have resulted in the development of several serum biomarkers and imaging tools as noninvasive alternatives to ...