Background: noninvasive esophageal parameters may prevent the need for an esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Liver cirrhosis patients benefit from PC/SD ratio and platelet count to spleen diameter (PC/SD) ratio, both of which are yet useful indicators liver progression. Objective: This study aimed evaluate diagnostic accuracy index diagnosis gastric varices in with cirrhosis, using esophagogastroduode...

Introduction and objective. The deficiency of the Lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) activity has been related to cirrhosis due non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Many classified as cryptogenic are evolution liver disease fatty liver. objective present study was evaluate lysosomal in patients with any etiology establish whether low levels correlate origin or NASH. Methods. Was an analytical cohort ...

Management of cryptogenic massive hemoptysis is difficult, and conservative treatment may be inadequate to stop the hemorrhage. Surgery is not a reasonable option because there is no underlying identifiable pathology. This study aimed to investigate the radiologic findings and bronchial artery embolization outcomes in cryptogenic hemoptysis, and to compare the results with non-cryptogenic hemop...

BACKGROUND Occult hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a new entity described by the presence of HCV-RNA in liver biopsy and/or peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) specimens, and undetectable levels or absence of HCV-RNA and in the absence or presence of anti HCV antibodies in plasma by current laboratory methods. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the detection of HCV-RNA in PBMC specimens of the l...

I t is estimated that 20.8 million people, i.e., 7.0% of the U.S. population, have diabetes (1). Type 2 diabetes, with its core defects of insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency, accounts for 90– 95% of those with the disease. Another 5.2 million people are estimated to have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. It is the sixth leading cause of death (1) in the U.S. and accounts for 17.2% of...