Patrick Mosler
Patrick Mosler
Acute cholangitis is a potentially life-threatening systemic disease resulting from a combination of infection and obstruction of the biliary tree, secondary to different underlying etiologies. Common causes of cholangitis (eg, gallstones, ...
Tyler Stevens
Tyler Stevens
Chronic pancreatitis (CP) remains an important healthcare problem that adversely affects quality of life. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a preferred test for the diagnosis of early CP. The Rosemont classification strictly defines and assign...
Rajan Kochar,Moises I Nevah Rubin,Michael B Fallon
Rajan Kochar
Pulmonary vascular complications of liver disease comprise two distinct clinical entities: hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS-microvascular dilatation and angiogenesis) and portopulmonary hypertension (POPH-vasoconstriction and remodeling in res...
Clinical trial report: treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis with vitamin E [0.03%]
维生素E治疗非酒精性脂肪肝病的临床试验报告
Bruce R Bacon
Bruce R Bacon
Morris Sherman
Morris Sherman
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) used to be considered a universally fatal disease. Today, however, we have tools to identify patients at risk for HCC with more accuracy. We are able to provide surveillance using ultrasonography that is suffi...
Bruce A Luxon
Bruce A Luxon
Bone disease is a major complication of chronic liver disease. Osteomalacia is quite uncommon despite low vitamin D levels in the majority of patients with cirrhosis. In contrast, osteoporosis is quite common, occurring in up to 50% of pati...
Juliane I Beier,Gavin E Arteel,Craig J McClain
Juliane I Beier
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) remains a leading cause of death from liver disease in the United States. In studies from the Veterans Administration, patients with cirrhosis and superimposed alcoholic hepatitis had greater than 60% mortality...
Emmanuel A Tsochatzis,Christos K Triantos,Matteo Garcovich et al.
Emmanuel A Tsochatzis et al.
Variceal hemorrhage is one of the leading causes of death in patients with cirrhosis, with the 6-week mortality after each episode ranging from 15% to 20%. The two main strategies for primary prevention of variceal bleeding in patients with...
Brijen Shah,Andrew Tinsley,Thomas Ullman
Brijen Shah
Advances in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are published routinely in medical journals. Some treatments are sufficiently helpful that their conclusions are incorporated into clinical guidelines. However, such publications...