background oral administration of pro- and prebiotics has recently been considered as an effective way for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) recovery. objectives the current study aimed at evaluating the effect of supplementation with probiotics and/or prebiotics on liver function tests in patients with nafld. methods in this double blind, placebo-control clinical trial, 75 subjects with...

Nowadys herbal medicine is marketing without standard toxicological study. Although people believe that herbal medicine do have any toxic effects, there are some reports indicating the toxicity of the herbal medicine. The aim of this investigation is to study the renal and hepatic effects of Echium Amoenum (EA) and Valeriana Officinalis (VO). Percolated extract of these plants with doses of 100...

background: in this study we evaluated the incidence of hypothyroidism in patients who received external beam radiation due to cancer, when radiation portals included thyroid gland. methods: this prospective study was conducted from april 2004 to december 2005 among patients with head and neck or breast malignancies who referred to radiation oncology department of cancer institute, imam khomein...

Measurement of serum concentrations of various liver enzymes and other nonenzymatic proteins and metabolites of heme metabolism (eg, bilirubin) is often undertaken in clinical practice. Measurement of these liver function tests is simple, quick, and relatively inexpensive. However, interpreting the liver function test results in patients without evidence of liver disease is often challenging. C...

BACKGROUND An adequate function test for donor livers is still lacking. The monoethylglycinexylidide (MEGX) test, performed in vivo in the donor to measure the metabolic rate of lidocaine conversion to MEGX, has been proposed as a function test for donor livers to predict postoperative organ function. METHODS In the present study, we investigated whether the MEGX formation rate measured in ne...

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...