Insights into the Correlation between Toll-Like Receptor 2 Polymorphism and HBV-Related Disease Progression and Occurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Case-Control Study in Egyp... by Naglaa S. Elabd, Marwa L. Helal, Mohsen Elkhayat, Heba Kamal Abd-ElKhalek, Doaa M. Ahmed, Asmaa M. El-Shemy, Yara S. Elsaadawy, Rasha A. Abdelmoneum, Hind S. AboShabaan, Randa M. Seddik

“…Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection causes a variety of clinical manifestations, including liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have crucial functions in immune and inflammatory control. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Sofosbuvir-Based Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents Treatment for Patients with Genotype 3/6 Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Yong-yu Mei, You-ming Chen, Yuan-kai Wu, Xiao-hong Zhang, Wen-xiong Xu

“…The numbers of chronic hepatitis, compensated cirrhosis, and decompensated cirrhosis patients were 39, 9, and 6, respectively. …”
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Pathophysiology of Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices by Hitoshi Maruyama, Osamu Yokosuka

“…It is detected in about 50% of cirrhosis patients, and approximately 5–15% of cirrhosis patients show newly formed varices or worsening of varices each year. …”
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Sindrom Hepatorenal pada Anak by Yusri Dianne Jurnalis, Yorva Sayoeti, Julinar .

“…Keywords:Hepatorenal syndrome, liver cirrhosis, renal impairment.…”
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Course of Encephalopathy in a Cirrhotic Dialysis Patient Treated Sequentially with Peritoneal and Hemodialysis by Suleyman Koz, Idris Sahin, Zafer Terzi, Sema Tulay Koz

“…End-stage kidney disease and advanced cirrhosis are sometimes seen concomitantly. There is no consensus on dialysis modality in terms of determining the optimal way of treating these patients. …”
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Albumin Binding Function: The Potential Earliest Indicator for Liver Function Damage by Penglei Ge, Huayu Yang, Jingfen Lu, Wenjun Liao, Shunda Du, Yingli Xu, Haifeng Xu, Haitao Zhao, Xin Lu, Xinting Sang, Shouxian Zhong, Jiefu Huang, Yilei Mao

“…An observational study was performed on 193 patients with early NAFLD, viral hepatitis, and cirrhosis. Cirrhosis patients were separated according to Child-Pugh score into A, B, and C subgroup. …”
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Is There a Role for Probiotics in Liver Disease? by Robert S. Lo, Andrew S. Austin, Jan G. Freeman

“…The beneficial effect of probiotics also extends to liver function in cirrhosis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and alcoholic liver disease. …”
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Anesthesia Management of a Liver Transplant Recipient with Remimazolam by Takashi Kawasaki, Takafumi Oyoshi, Naoyuki Hirata

“…A 54-year-old woman who was diagnosed with Child-Pugh C cirrhosis of unknown etiology was scheduled for living donor liver transplantation. …”
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Increased Porphyrins in Primary Liver Cancer Mainly Reflect a Parallel Liver Disease by Jerzy Kaczynski, Göran Hansson, Sven Wallerstedt

“…The corresponding proportion for HCC patients with liver cirrhosis (55%) was higher (P<.05) than in those without cirrhosis (17%). …”
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Acute Portal Vein Thrombosis Treated with Recombinant Human Soluble Thrombomodulin Combined with Antithrombin III by Satoshi Nakayama, Naoya Murashima

“…Herein, we report a case of acute portal thrombosis associated with liver cirrhosis and treated with a recombinant form of soluble thrombomodulin (thrombomodulin alpha, TM-α) in combination with antithrombin III. …”
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Recent Advances in Antiviral Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C by Akihiro Tamori, Masaru Enomoto, Norifumi Kawada

“…Chronic infection induces continuous inflammation in the liver, progression of hepatic fibrosis, eventual cirrhosis, and possible hepatocellular carcinoma. Eradication of the virus is one of the most important treatment aims. …”
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Posttransplant Metabolic Syndrome by M. Shadab Siddiqui, Richard K. Sterling

“…The prevalence of MS in patients with cirrhosis and end-stage liver disease is not well established and difficult to ascertain. …”
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A Late Presentation of a Fatal Disease: Juvenile Hemochromatosis by Cynthia Cherfane, Pauline Lee, Leana Guerin, Kyle Brown

“…We report the case of a 39-year-old female who presented with heart failure and cirrhosis from previously unrecognized juvenile hemochromatosis. …”
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Advances in intrahepatic and extrahepatic vascular dysregulations in cirrhotic portal hypertension by Yanqiu Li, Bingbing Zhu, Ke Shi, Yu Lu, Xuanwei Zeng, Yongqi Li, Qun Zhang, Ying Feng, Xianbo Wang

“…Cirrhotic portal hypertension, the most prevalent and clinically significant complication of liver cirrhosis, manifests as elevated portal venous pressure and is associated with severe complications. …”
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Management of adult patients with alcoholic liver disease: clinical guidelines of the Russian Scientific Liver Society by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Mayevskaya, Ch. S. Pavlov, Yu. P. Sivolap, V. D. Lunkov, M. S. Zharkova, R. V. Maslennikov

“…The alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a clinical and morphological entity that encompasses several forms of the liver parenchyma lesions resulting from alcohol abuse, that range from steatosis to alcoholic hepatitis (steatohepatitis) followed by progression to fibrosis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Alcoholic liver cirrhosis gives significant impact to digestive disease associated motility. …”
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Liver transplantation in glycogen storage disease type III: A case‐series by Simon Gay, Adrien Bigot, Louis d'Alteroche, Fanny Dujardin, Gaëlle Fromont‐Hankard, Nathalie Tressel, Ephrem Salame, François Maillot

“…Long‐term hepatic monitoring is essential for early detection of complications such as cirrhosis and HCC. LT indications should be individually evaluated, preferring less invasive options. …”
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Comparing Mortality Risk Predictive Ability of Different Scoring Systems in Cirrhotic Patients with Bacteremia by Chi-Chieh Hung, Yin-Chou Hsu, Kuo-Hsuan Lin

“…Patients with liver cirrhosis and bacteremia have substantially higher risk of mortality and morbidity. …”
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Interactions between Myc and Mediators of Inflammation in Chronic Liver Diseases by Ting Liu, Yu Zhou, Kwang Suk Ko, Heping Yang

“…Their interactions play a central role in fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. Molecular interference of their interactions offers possible therapeutic potential for CLDs. …”
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Histomorphologic liver abnormalities in a group of alcoholic patients by Libán Álvarez Cáceres, Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Merlyn Arce Núñez.

“…<strong><br />Conclusion</strong>: there were a high proportion of patients with impaired liver aminotransferases and severe histological diagnoses, especially those of chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.…”
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A Curious Case of Iron-Deficiency Anemia by Seth Shaffer, Mayur Brahmania, Hemant Shah

“…His past history was significant for cirrhosis based on a previous variceal bleed but a workup for chronic liver disease was negative and a liver biopsy did not show steatosis, fibrosis, or cirrhosis. …”
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