In Hong Kong and China, chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is the commonest cause of liver cirrhosis, which is also a risk factor for development of hepatocellular carcinoma. In CHB patients, persistent hepatic inflammation leads to progressive liver fibrosis and subsequently cirrhosis. The process of liver cirrhosis is reversible. Accurate diagnosis is crucial for the management of CHB patients.1 Liver...

Obesity is commonly associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and a significant cause of chronic cirrhosis. Some patients undergoing bariatric surgery suffer from cirrhosis the liver. Currently, there lack consensus on management these safety efficacy in this group. This review aims to update our previously published systematic same topic. A total 21 studies reporting experience were in...

Chronic liver disease is a progressive deterioration of hepatic functions and continuous process inflammation, destruction, regeneration parenchyma, resulting in fibrosis cirrhosis [...]

The patient was a 78-year-old man who had attended our hospital with alcoholic liver cirrhosis as Child-Pugh classification A.

Introduction Cirrhosis is the 12th leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for almost 30 thousand deaths per year (Starr 2011). !e leading causes of cirrhosis include chronic alcohol abuse and viral hepatitis; however cirrhosis is the common end pathway of several types of liver injury, including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), autoimmune hepatic or biliary disease, a...

Abstract Muscle cramps appearing in liver cirrhosis substantially affect the quality of life these patients. The prevalence painful muscle can be up to 88%. exact mechanism by which occur is unknown. management this symptom not easy because there no uniformly accepted recommendation about what kind supplementation or medicine (or both) used exactly. aim our study review treatment options for ci...

the liver transplantation program was established at shiraz nemazee hospital in 1993. shortage of cadaver organ supply due to various social and legal issues urged us to develop a living-related liver transplantation (lrlt) program. so far 7 (6 males, 1 female) living-related liver transplantations have been performed at this center. the mean age of patients was 8.21 years (+/- 4.16), with a ra...

background :timely diagnosis of liver cirrhosis is vital for preventing further liver damage and giving the patient the chance of transplantation. although biopsy of the liver is the gold standard for cirrhosis assessment, it has some risks and limitations and this has led to the development of new noninvasive methods to determine the stage and prognosis of the patients. we aimed to design an a...

Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by virus, which results in mild to severe inflammation of the liver. Over many years, hepatitis gradually damages liver, often leading permanent scarring, known as cirrhosis. Patients sometimes have moderate or no symptoms illness for decades before developing Cirrhosis typically worsens point failure. with cirrhosis may also experience brain and nerve sy...