Climate change and the resurgence of waterborne diseases: Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa by Sandy Moore, Rita Colwell

“…Climate change has significant implications for waterborne diseases, such as cholera, typhoid fever, schistosomiasis and hepatitis A, which affect populations throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Noncirrhotic Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Causing Adult-Onset Encephalopathy Treated with Endovascular Closure by Eldad Elnekave, Eugenia Belenky, Lindsley Van der Veer

“…A comprehensive metabolic panel was notable for elevated values of alkaline phosphatase (161 U/L), total bilirubin (1.5 mg/dL), and serum ammonia of 300 umol/L (normal range 9–47). Hepatitis panel, relevant serological tests, tumor markers (CA-19-9, CEA), and urea cycle enzyme studies were unrevealing. …”
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Osteoclast-Like Giant Cells: Report of the Seventh Case in the Literature by Lorenzo Dioscoridi, Damiano Bisogni, Giancarlo Freschi

“…Histologically, the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma with high grade differentiation associated with giant osteoclast-like cells was done without any evidence of hepatitis or cirrhosis in the surrounding hepatic parenchyma. …”
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Primary Cardiac Lymphoma Presenting with Thrombocytopenia, Right Heart Failure, and Cardiogenic Shock by Samantha Kurniawan, Gita Mathur, Yvonne Bogun, Giselle Kidson-Gerber

“…He deteriorated into cardiogenic shock precipitated by atrial fibrillation, with worsening thrombocytopenia (18 × 109/L) in the setting of ischaemic hepatitis. The patient stabilised with initiation of high dose steroids prior to tissue diagnosis and platelet counts normalised following chemotherapy. …”
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Iron-regulatory liver hormone hepcidin and its place in the system of congenital immunity by O. A. Smirnov

“…So-called inflammation anemia (anemia of chronic diseases) serves as clinical and morphological manifestation of this rearrangement, which severity correlates to unfavorable course of chronic hepatitis B and C, as well as neoplastic, renal and cardiac diseases. …”
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New Fuzzy Support Vector Machine for the Class Imbalance Problem in Medical Datasets Classification by Xiaoqing Gu, Tongguang Ni, Hongyuan Wang

“…Five real-world medical datasets, breast, heart, hepatitis, BUPA liver, and pima diabetes, from the UCI medical database are employed to illustrate the method presented in this paper. …”
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Primary biliary cirrhosis: clinical and laboratory criteria of diagnostics and up-to-date treatment by L. Yu. Il’chenko, V. I. Reshetn’yak

“…АМА-positive (classical) variant of PBC with pruritus, jaundice, biochemical syndrome of cholestasis and revealing of AMA in diagnostic titer (more 1:40) in blood serum is defined; АМА-negative variant of PBC with lower biochemical and immunologic activity, lower frequency of extrahepatic manifestations, that, however, does not influence the prognosis and terms of LC progression; overlap syndrome with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) – PBC/AIH (9,4%); asymptomatic course of PBC which is characterized by absence of clinical symptoms for a long period and manifestation of disease at the stage of LC complications. …”
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Acute Liver and Renal Failure: A Rare Adverse Effect Exclusive to Intravenous form of Amiodarone by Robin Paudel, Prerna Dogra, Saurav Suman, Saurav Acharya, Jyoti Matta

“…In this case review, we discuss the hyperacute drug toxicity caused by IV amiodarone being a distinctly different entity compared to the adverse effects shown by oral amiodarone and support the suggestion that oral amiodarone can be safely administered even in patients who manifest acute hepatitis with the IV form.…”
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Skeletal Cryptococcosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Lori Wood, Lil Miedzinski

“…A case of isolated cryptococcal skull infection is presented in a patient with unexplained CD4 lymphopenia and chronic hepatitis B. All cases of this disease reported in the English literature from 1956 to the present are reviewed. …”
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Modelling and Simulation of the Spread of HBV Disease. by Niyirora, Ignatius

“…It was guided by specific objectives that were to find out the disease-free equilibrium of the spread of Hepatitis B Virus, to determine sensitivity analysis on Ro to ascertain which parameter is most sensitive and that should be targeted by way of intervention and to examine the local stability of the model equation using the modified implicit function theorem. …”
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Age, frequency, and strategy optimization for organized colorectal cancer screening: a decision analysis conducted in China for the years 2023–2038 by Zixing Wang, Wei Han, Ran Fei, Yaoda Hu, Fang Xue, Wentao Gu, Cuihong Yang, Yubing Shen, Luwen Zhang, Jingmei Jiang

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Characterization and Detection Strategy Exploration in Cryptogenic Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Insights From a Super‐Aged Region in Japan by Takaaki Sugihara, Takakazu Nagahara, Takuya Kihara, Suguru Ikeda, Yoshiki Hoshino, Yukako Matsuki, Takuki Sakaguchi, Hiroki Kurumi, Takumi Onoyama, Tomoaki Takata, Tomomitsu Matono, Hajime Isomoto

“…Excluding cases associated with hepatitis viral infection, alcoholic liver disease, non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease/steatohepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and congestive hepatopathy, the study specifically focused on genuine c‐HCC. …”
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Regulation of viral replication by host restriction factors by Ying Lin, Ying Lin, Ying Lin, Yun Zhu, Yun Zhu, Ling Jing, Ling Jing, Ling Jing, Xiaobo Lei, Xiaobo Lei, Zhengde Xie, Zhengde Xie

“…Viral infectious diseases, caused by numerous viruses including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), influenza A virus (IAV), enterovirus (EV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and human papillomavirus (HPV), pose a continuous threat to global health. …”
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Intrahepatic CD161hiCD8+T Cell Recruitment Has a Pathogenetic Potential in Chronic HBV Infection by Jianfei Li, Qian Liu, Wanlu Duan, Zhi Duan, Futing Liu, Mengqi Ruan, Qiyin Zong, Hao Zhang, Qiang Zhou, Qin Wang

“…ABSTRACT Backgrounds and Aims CD8+T cells are crucially associated with the fight against hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. CD161 has been shown to express remarkably on HCV‐specific CD8+T cells. …”
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Induction of phospholipase A2 group 4C by HCV infection regulates lipid droplet formation by Masahiko Ito, Jie Liu, Masayoshi Fukasawa, Koji Tsutsumi, Yumi Kanegae, Mitsutoshi Setou, Michinori Kohara, Tetsuro Suzuki

“…Background & Aims: Hepatic steatosis, characterized by lipid accumulation in hepatocytes, is a key diagnostic feature in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. …”
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ANCA Associated Vasculitis and Renal Failure Related to Propylthiouracil and Hyperthyroidism Induced Cholestasis in the Same Case by Mehmet Tuncay, Emine Kivrakoglu, Itir Yegenaga, Erkan Dervisoglu

“…After exclusion of all of the other possibilities, cholestatic hepatitis was explained by subclinical hyperthyroidism; renal failure and lung involvement were interpreted as ANCA related vasculitis which might be a side effect of propylthiouracil use. …”
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An Exceptional Case of Liver-Restricted High-Grade B-Cell Lymphoma in a Patient with Clinical History of HBV and HCV Coinfections by Connor R. Zuraski, Vinit Patil, Katherine E. Schwetye

“…Primary hepatic lymphomas (PHLs) are exceedingly rare. Many reported cases are associated with various viral serologies, and some viruses may be implicated in lymphomagenesis through emerging, though as-of-yet uncertain, mechanisms. …”
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Controlled Attenuation Parameter for Quantification of Steatosis: Which Cut-Offs to Use? by Roxana Sirli, Ioan Sporea

“…Chronic liver diseases (CLDs) are a public health problem, even if frequently they are underdiagnosed. Hepatic steatosis (HS), encountered not only in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) but also in chronic viral hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease, etc., plays an important role in fibrosis progression, regardless of CLD etiology; thus, detection and quantification of HS are imperative. …”
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Entecavir: stability and drug-excipient compatibility by Ariadne Botto Fiorot, Clayton Raynan dos Santos, Thiago Padovani Xavier, Taisa Shimosakai de Lira, Marcelo Antonio de Oliveira

“…Abstract Entecavir is an inhibitor of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA synthesis that has been widely prescribed in the treatment of chronic infections caused by the virus. …”
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Multiple Abdominal Cocoons: An Unusual Presentation of Intestinal Obstruction and a Diagnostic Dilemma by Mohammad Zain Sohail, Shumaila Hasan, Benan Dala-Ali, Shahanoor Ali, M. A. Hashmi

“…We present the case of a 42-year-old gentleman with a history of hepatitis C, tuberculosis, and previous abdominal surgery, who presented with subacute intestinal obstruction. …”
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