A growing number of published papers consider the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and cryptogenic cirrhosis as the immediate offspring of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). NAFLD is the most common liver disorder in developed countries, where up to 80% of obese people have the disease. Cirrhosis is defined as the advanced stages of hepatic fibrosis with characteristic distortion of hepat...

BACKGROUND Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has a broad spectrum of manifestation, ranging from silent carrier state to advanced cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The persistence of HBV DNA in serum and hepatocytes of the cirrhotic patient could be detected by molecular techniques in spite of negative HBV serologic markers. OBJECTIVES This case-control study was designed to eva...

conclusions in our study, only hbv genotype d was found among all the positive hbsag and occult hbv infection. moreover, high prevalence (40.7%) of occult hbv infection was determined among patients suffered from cryptogenic cirrhosis. results eleven (40.7%) out of 27 hbv cryptogenic cirrhosis and all 11 hbsag-positive patients were positive for hbv dna. the seroprevalences of hepatitis b virus...

Both cryptogenic liver cirrhosis and idiopathic portal hypertension without pathological findings of liver cirrhosis (IPH) are relatively common in Japan. To find differrence between IPH and cryptogenic liver cirrhosis of Japanese, we investigated human leukocyte antigen (HLA), familial clustering of liver diseases as well as prevalence of HBs antigen in 31 patients with IPH. The age of patient...

Aim The objective of this study was to determine the epidemiologic characteristics of patients with liver cirrhosis. Background Liver cirrhosis is an end-stage condition of chronic liver disease. Liver disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Methods In this cross-sectional study, demographic and epidemiologic characteristics of 203 patients with liver cirrhosis w...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Patients with intrahepatic portal hypertension and negative etiological work-up for liver disease are often labeled as having cryptogenic cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate causes of liver disease in patients with unexplained intrahepatic portal hypertension. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed cause of liver disease in all patients with cryptogenic intrahepat...

abdominal wall hernias are common problems found in patients with cirrhosis because of persistently high intra-abdominal pressure. when abdominal hernias are neglected in such patients, they may become larger and could result in cosmetic problems and pressure effects that are also difficult to treat. we found a voluminous mass in the anterior abdominal wall of a 40-year-old patient with cirrhos...