OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of three liver diseases [hepatitis C virus (HCV), nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and alcohol-induced cirrhosis] in patients (veterans) with/without schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder. METHODS A retrospective electronic chart review of Veterans Integrated Services Network 20 facilities from January 1, 2001 to December 21, 2006 selec...

fatty liver disease (fld) is the most prevalent form of liver disease worldwide. overnutrition can induce nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld), a spectrum of conditions ranging from simple steatosis [or nonalcoholic fatty liver (nafl)] to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and cirrhosis. some of the epidemiological and pathological studies have also suggested an association between the presence o...

The complexity of liver makes it easily affected by disease of disorder. So diagnosing liver disorder disease is a high interest to data miners, and decision trees have been useful data mining tools to diagnose the disease, but the accuracy of decision trees has been limited due to insufficient data. In order to generate more accurate decision trees for liver disorder disease this paper suggest...

context celiac disease (cd) is defined as a permanent intolerance to ingested gluten. the intolerance to gluten results in immune-mediated damage of small intestine mucosa manifested by villous atrophy and crypt hyperplasia. these abnormalities resolve with initiationa gluten-free diet. evidence acquisition pubmed, ovid, and google were searched for full text articles published between 1963 and...

Venous blood ammonium levels were studied in 106 control subjects and 47 patients with varying degrees of liver disorder. The resting venous blood ammonium was normally distributed in both male and female control subjects and was not influenced by either the sex or the fasting state of the subject. In general it was also uninfluenced by age except that the level was found to be a little lower i...

The relationship between histopathology of liver and preoperative liver functional data was studied in 151 cases with cholelithiasis to clarify how gallstones effect on the hepatic tissues. The results were as follows. 1. Histologically, 80 % of all the cases showed hepatic inflammation. 2. The group with cholecystolithiasis had the highest frequency of hepatic parenchymatous changes. 3. The da...

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasingly a common disease which is created by the accumulation of fat in the liver. About 20% of adults and 5% of children suffer from this disease. In some studies, half of obese children had fatty liver disease and approximately 90% of the patients with fatty liver were obese. The aim of this study was to evaluate fatty liver diseas...