CONTEXT Pain management in cirrhotic patients is a major clinical challenge for medical professionals. Unfortunately there are no concrete guidelines available regarding the administration of analgesics in patients with liver cirrhosis. In this review we aimed to summarize the available literature and suggest appropriate evidence-based recommendations regarding to administration of these drugs....

The prognosis of liver cirrhosis depends on the presence of its major complications as well as on other factors such as hypersplenism with thrombocytopenia. Partial splenic embolization is an effective interventional procedure performed in liver cirrhosis complicated with portal hypertension to improve the low platelet count. This technique represents an efficient alternative to splenectomy, wh...

OBJECTIVE Our main aim was to investigate the serum lipid levels in a series of patients with liver cirrhosis of viral origin. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study comprised 90 patients, 60 with viral liver cirrhosis, equally divided between hepatitis virus C (HCV) and B (HBV) etiologies, and 30 control patients with no known liver pathology. Patients were investigated during a 5-year period in the...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that liver cirrhosis (LC), regardless of etiology, may be associated with anatomical cardiac alterations. OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency and type of macroscopical anatomic cardiac abnormalities present in alcoholic and non-alcoholic cirrhotic patients in an autopsy series. MATERIAL AND METHODS The autopsy records performed at our institution during a 12...

Alcohol remains one of the most abused substances worldwide. Studies over years have attributed chronic alcoholism as a major risk factor to liver cirrhosis. Patients with cirrhosis develop portal hypertension which put them at higher having esophageal varices and other associated complications. The authors present case alcoholic male individual who developed along less reported complications l...

Hepatitis-B surface antigen was found in 58% of 64 patients with cirrhosis in Iraq using counter immunoelectrophoresis (CIE), radioimmunoassay (RIA), and three commercial haemagglutination tests--Auscell (Abbott Laboratories), Hepatest (Wellcome Reagents Ltd.), and Hepanosticon (Organon Teknika). CIE detected about half as many positives as the other methods; RIA was the most sensitive. The num...

.. Objective: To determine the frequency and severity of hypoglycemia in patients with liver cirrhosis. Study Design: Cross sectional case series study. Period: Six months. Setting: Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad. Methods: All the patients of liver cirrhosis, of >12 years of age and of either gender were evaluated for hypoglycemia by assessing the glycemic status through random or fastin...