BACKGROUND Chronic liver diseases can progress to cirrhosis and to hepatocellular carcinoma. Timely and unequivocal recognition of the neoplastic evolution of cirrhosis is critical. To this aim, we used a noncompetitive reverse transcription-PCR procedure to analyze aldolase A mRNA in liver tissue from patients with chronic liver diseases at different stages. METHODS We studied 12 patients wi...

Methods We conducted a cross-sectional analysis on chronic HCVinfected adult patients, monitored at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balş”. Patients with diabetes mellitus, chronic alcohol consumption, other chronic liver diseases, HBV or HIV co-infections were excluded. We recorded demographic data, HCV infection history, personal and family history of CVR factors...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is considered not only as a with poor hepatic prognosis. The problem has acquired multidisciplinary problem. variety of concomitant diseases and pathological conditions are united by common pathophysiological mechanisms. This review summarizes presents the data available in modern literature on association NAFLD cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes ...

Background: Hepato cellular carcinoma (HCC) represents a challenging malignancy of worldwide importance; it is the sixth most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer-related death globally. Alcohol, tobacco, obesity, diabetes and viral etiology interact to increase the risk of HCC in patients with chronic liver diseases. Smoking is a well documented risk factor for many cancers ...

Metabolomics as the new omics technique develops after genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics and has rapid development at present. Liver diseases are worldwide public health problems. In China, chronic hepatitis B and its secondary diseases are the common liver diseases. They can be diagnosed by the combination of history, virology, liver function, and medical imaging. However, some patient...

background hbv infection is a serious public health problem worldwide, which can contribute to the incidence of chronic hepatitis b (chb), cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc). objectives in the present report, we assessed the association between adiponectin, its receptors and hepatic steatosis, fibrosis, and inflammation with hepatitis b virus. patients and methods liver biopsies from...

conclusions this study revealed that serum iron markers (especially ferritin and transferrin) might be used as surrogate markers for both liver fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity. patients and methods eighty five patients with untreated hepatitis c chronic infection were investigated. . results twenty one patients (24.7%) had elevated serum iron levels, and 29 subjects (34.1%) had severe l...

With an immunofluorescence technique using rabbit hepatocytes isolated by a non-enzymatic method an autoantibody directed against liver-cell-membrance was identified. Sera from 361 patients with various liver diseases and 274 patients with primary non-hepatic diseases-many associated with non-organ-specific auto-antibodies-were examined. The antibody (LMA) was found in 27 out of 72 patients wit...