introduction: chronic liver diseases consist of wide spectrum disorders that may be complicated by cirrhosis and therefore need to transplantation. the pediatric end-stage liver disease (peld) score and model of end-stage liver disease (meld) score has been used as predictors of mortality chronic liver diseases listed for liver transplantation. the aim of this study is evaluation of relation be...

Introduction: Indian childhood cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease usually seen in paediatric age group and is unique to the Indian subcontinent. The definitive causative factor for the disease is not found till now but excess copper ingestion has been associated with it.Case presentation: An Indian origin one and half year old premorbidly normal male child presented with history of gradual di...

background : lindane is an insecticide which is used in commercial insecticides and food containers. caseâ presentation : herein, we reported on a 62-year-old man with liver cirrhosis 12 years after continuous exposure to lindane gas.the diagnostic workup showed no other possible cause, and findings of liver scintigraphy and clinical manifestations were compatible with substance-induced cirrhos...

at present, liver transplantation remains the only curative option for the patients with cirrhosis and end-stage liver diseases. the survival rate and recurrent diseases remain the major issues in the patient post-transplantation. unani medicine is one of the oldest traditional systems of medicine which has been treating chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis (talayyaful-kabid) for centuries. the...

Purpose. To develop a system for assessing liver function in patients with cirrhosis according to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) gadoxetic acid. Material and Methods. Data from studies of 74 who underwent abdominal MRI intravenous acid (GA) enhancement were analyzed. For statistical analysis the data, two groups formed: group 1 (n = 22) comprised unchanged parenchyma, normal function, benign ...

  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...

chronic liver diseases in children is the result of many different diseases including: metabolic, genetic, infectious, toxic and idiopathic causes. this was a case series study on 133 infants and children with age range 6 month to 12 years old, who presented clinically with manifestation of chronic liver disease and were admitted to children hospital medical center from year 1999 to 2000. in th...

we assessed different systolic cardiac indices to detect left and right ventricular systolic dysfunction in cirrhotic patients before liver transplantation. between 2010-2011, 81 consecutive individuals with confirmed hepatic cirrhosis who were a candidate for liver transplantation were enrolled in this study. a total of 32 age and sex matched healthy volunteers were also selected as the contro...

background : the portal system and azygos vein are the main drainage systems during portal hypertension. this study aims to compare the diameter of these veins by endoscopic ultrasonography (eus) inpatients with and without chronic liver disease (cld). materials and methods : during one year, patients with cld enrolled as the study group. patients who underwent eus for other reasons during the ...