Recent developments in the pathophysiology of cholestasis.

abstract：:Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) can be predictable or idiosyncratic and has an estimated incidence of approximately 20 cases per 100,000 persons per year. DILI is a common cause of acute liver failure in the United States. No accurate tests for diagnosing DILI exist, and its diagnosis is based on exclusion of other c...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Gonzalez HC,Jafri SM,Gordon SC

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common indication for liver transplantation in the United States and Europe, and more than 20,000 patients worldwide have undergone transplantation for complications of chronic hepatitis C. In North America, HCV accounts for 15% to 50% of the liver transplants perf...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Biggins SW,Terrault NA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are among the most common drugs associated with drug-induced liver injury, with an estimated incidence of between 3 and 23 per 100,000 patient years. Nimesulide, sulindac, and diclofenac seem to be associated with the highest risk and the only risk factor consistently identified is...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Aithal GP,Day CP

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The answers to these questions are key to understanding the pathogenesis of PBC. Although the study of PBC is significantly retarded by the lack of an adequate animal model, the molecular technology to address these issues is advancing rapidly. In addition, the ability to isolate and culture human biliary epithelial c...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Mayo MJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver biopsy is used to determine the pathogenesis of liver dysfunction after liver transplantation. One or more causative factors may be identified on biopsy. The pathologist must be familiar with the histopathology of acute rejection to differentiate it from other potential complications, including biliary obstructi...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Lefkowitch JH

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary liver cancer is the fifth most common malignancy worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer mortality. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common cause of chronic liver disease in the United States encompassing a spectrum of entities marked by hepatic steatosis in the absence of significant alco...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Page JM,Harrison SA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare but highly fatal condition. The most common causes include drug-induced and viral hepatitis, but other less common etiologies, especially autoimmune hepatitis, Budd-Chiari syndrome, and Wilson disease, need to be considered. Because diagnosis is frequently tied to potential for reve...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Rosenblatt R,Brown RS Jr

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "alcoholic liver disease" encompasses a spectrum of pathologic conditions ranging from isolated steatosis to established cirrhosis. Within this spectrum, varying degrees of inflammation, hepatocellular ballooning degeneration, hepatocyte necrosis, cholestasis, and fibrosis may be encountered. This article rev...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Alpert L,Hart J

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HCV infection becomes persistent in many patients who are otherwise immune competent. There is increasing support for potential contribution of innate immune response and viral interference with its components to the subsequent outcome. As for the adaptive immune response, humoral immunity may be largely ineffective d...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Chang KM

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMA are detected in the serum of 92% to 95% of patients with PBC using indirect immunofluorescent methods. AIC is the term used to describe the 5% to 8% of AMA-negative PBC patients who uniformly have ANA and SMA. Recent applications of more sensitive and specific tests to detect serum AMA have shown that most, if not...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Vierling JM

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of ethanol-induced fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and cirrhosis has been attributed in part to nutritional deficiencies for many years. Special attention must be focused on treating alcohol-induced liver disease while providing replacement of deficient amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrient...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Leevy CM,Moroianu SA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ascites is the most common complication of cirrhosis. It is associated with profound changes in the splanchnic and systemic circulation and with renal abnormalities. The development of ascites is related to the existence of severe sinusoidal portal hypertension that causes marked splanchnic arterial vasodilation and a...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Cárdenas A,Bataller R,Arroyo V

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities of LFTs and liver function occur not infrequently in patients with rheumatic conditions, and many diagnostic possibilities exist. Systemic inflammation that is related to uncontrolled rheumatic disease and periods of disease remission have been described as a cause for fluctuations in levels of serum ami...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Walker NJ,Zurier RB

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of HCC is poorly understood at present. There is insufficient understanding to propose a robust general model of hepatic carcinogenesis, partly because pathogenic host and environmental factors show significant regional variation, making such generalization difficult. Figure 4 is a model based on data...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Macdonald GA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For patients who present with variceal bleeding refractory to endoscopic and pharmacologic methods, TIPS is a new and effective therapy. Stents are used in selected patients with decompensated liver disease and those who anticipate liver transplantation within 6 to 12 months. Surveillance of TIPS with ultrasound, with...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Faust TW,Sorrell MF

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of newly acquired hepatitis C infection has diminished in the United States. This decline is largely because of a decrease in cases among IDUs for reasons that are unclear and, to a lesser extent, to testing of blood donors for HCV. The virus is transmitted by blood, and such transmission now occurs prim...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Seeff LB,Hoofnagle JH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic syndrome and the hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are 2 global health care challenges with a complex interaction. Insulin resistance, a central component of the metabolic syndrome, is epidemiologically and pathophysiologically intrinsically linked to HCV infection. Insulin resistance and diabetes affect...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Goossens N,Negro F

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of patients who have portal hypertension has changed dramatically over the last 2 decades. Pharmacologic therapy benefits the patient by reducing the risk for an initial bleed, improving the management of an acute bleed, and in reducing the risk for a rebleed. Endoscopic management has improved progress...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Henderson JM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past two decades, pediatric liver transplantation has become the state-of-the-art operation with anticipated success and limited mortality. The future success of pediatric liver transplantation will require thoughtful solutions to the delicate balance of risk to donors and recipients, the complex needs of the a...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Tiao G,Ryckman FC

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination therapy with beta-blockers and endoscopic band ligation (EBL) is the standard prophylaxis of esophageal variceal rebleeding in cirrhosis. Beta-blockers are the backbone of combination therapy, since their benefit extend to other complications of portal hypertension. EBL carries the risk of post-banding ulc...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Albillos A,Tejedor M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and de novo AIH are 2 important causes of late graft failure after liver transplantation (LT). Recurrent AIH occurs in patients who undergo LT for AIH. De novo AIH occurs in patients who are transplanted for etiologies other than AIH. Although typically treated with standard treatm...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Beal EW,Black SM,Michaels A

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is emerging as the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. This trend is, in part, secondary, to the growing incidence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Other risk factors include age, gender, race/ethnicity, genetic predisposition, and polycystic ovari...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Lim HW,Bernstein DE

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetaminophen (APAP) is the leading worldwide cause of drug overdose and acute liver failure (ALF). Single overdose ingestion and therapeutic misadventure may cause hepatotoxicity. Several factors, such as concomitant alcohol use or abuse, concurrent medications, genetic factors, and nutritional status, can influence ...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Bunchorntavakul C,Reddy KR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk for potential transmission of infectious agents during gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is concerning for patients and physicians. However, the instance of infection transmission remains rare after GI endoscopy procedures, with an estimated frequency of 1 in 1.8 million procedures. Endoscopy-related infection ...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Wu H,Shen B

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased survival for young liver transplant recipients has greatly improved. Increasing success has led to broader indications, thereby increasing the number of potential recipients. Pediatric liver centers are developing new strategies to cope with the ever-increasing demands for suitable size appropriate grafts. U...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Abramson O,Rosenthal P

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is no secret that the health care environment today is motivated by the underlying, largely economic impetus of managed care. This is particularly evident within the organ transplantation community, where third party payers hope to minimize their financial risk by relying more and more on "centers of excellence" ne...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Evans RW,Kitzmann DJ

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial liver-support devices attempt to bridge patients with fulminant hepatic failure until either a suitable liver allograft is obtained for transplantation or the patient's own liver regenerates sufficiently to resume normal function. It is thought that toxins contribute to the clinical picture of fulminant hep...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Sechser A,Osorio J,Freise C,Osorio RW

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the liver disease associated with obesity, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome. Although steatosis is a key histologic feature, liver biopsies of patients with NAFLD can show a wide range of findings. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a progressive subtype of NAFLD fir...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Kleiner DE,Makhlouf HR

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most consistently identified predictive factors for a response to both IFN-alpha monotherapy and IFN-alpha in combination with ribavirin are a low HCV RNA level, the absence of fibrosis, infection with HCV genotype 2 and 3, and a prolonged duration of treatment. In addition, an early response to IFN-alpha predicts...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Barnes E,Webster G,Whalley S,Dusheiko G

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune liver diseases have much in common with each other, and there are clear associations with genetic haplotypes. Elegant studies have shown autoimmune liver disease induced by viruses and drugs. Although there is evidence for nonimmunological events precipitating immune disease, especially in primary sclerosin...

journal_title：Clinics in liver disease

authors： Peters MG

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00