Effects of Intravenous Immunoglobulin and Acyclovir in Preventing Neonatal Varicella by Waritsara Piyanonpong

“…The disease can cause presentation ranging from mild symptoms to varicella pneumonia, hepatitis, meningoencephalitis, or fatality. If the mother develops symptoms implying varicella 4–5 days antepartum to 2 days postpartum, the mortality rate of the baby may reach 20%. …”
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Noninvasive Imaging Test to Assess Liver Fibrosis: Vibration-controlled Transient Elastography by Mi Na Kim

“…In addition, the diagnostic utility of VCTE in chronic viral hepatitis is reviewed.…”
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Toxoplasmosis in Pork Meat: a Health Risk by Mildre Mercedes Vidal del Río, María Fernanda Latorre Barragán, Darwin Rafael Villamarín Barragán, Aldemar Alejandro Monsalve Guamán

“…Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by a protozoan called Toxoplasma gondii, it manifests itself with great morbidity and mortality in fetuses, newborns and immunocompromised patients, however, toxoplasmosis can also manifest itself in immunocompetent patients suffering from: chorioretinitis, lymphadenopathy, pneumonia, brain abscess, myositis, myocarditis and hepatitis. The objective of this investigation was to identify the clinical manifestations of toxoplasmosis in pork meat and the possible risks to human health. …”
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Liver Cirrhosis: Evaluation, Nutritional Status, and Prognosis by Hiroki Nishikawa, Yukio Osaki

“…The liver is the major organ for the metabolism of three major nutrients: protein, fat, and carbohydrate. Chronic hepatitis C virus infection is the major cause of chronic liver disease. …”
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Possible Involvement of Liver Resident Macrophages (Kupffer Cells) in the Pathogenesis of Both Intrahepatic and Extrahepatic Inflammation by Yuki Kakinuma, Takuya Kimura, Yoshifumi Watanabe

“…Administration of clodronate liposomes resulted in the KC deletion and in the suppression of liver injury in T cell-mediated hepatitis by ConA as a local acute inflammation model, while the treatment did not influence dextran sulfate sodium- (DSS-) induced colitis featured by weight loss, intestinal shrink, and pathological observation as an ectopic local acute inflammation model. …”
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Dynamics of a diffusive age-structured HBV model with saturating incidence by Xichao Duan, Sanling Yuan, Kaifa Wang

“…In this paper, we propose and investigate an age-structured hepatitis B virus (HBV) model with saturating incidence and spatial diffusion where the viral contamination process is described by the age-since-infection. …”
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Metabonomics Research Progress on Liver Diseases by Mengqian Yu, Ying Zhu, Qingwei Cong, Chunyan Wu

“…Liver diseases are worldwide public health problems. In China, chronic hepatitis B and its secondary diseases are the common liver diseases. …”
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Elastography in Hepatology by Ludovico Abenavoli, Christophe Corpechot, Raoul Poupon

“…Currently, there are only a few studies that have evaluated TE effectiveness in chronic liver diseases, mostly in patients infected with the hepatitis C virus. Further studies are needed in patients with chronic liver disease, to assess the effectiveness of the fibrosis treatment.…”
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Low-Dose Tolvaptan for the Treatment of Dilutional Hyponatremia in Cirrhosis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Guo Shen, Hainv Gao

“…We report a case of forties man with a 20-year history of chronic hepatitis B presenting with yellow urine and skin. …”
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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 that 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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Prevalence of anaemia and the associated factors among hospitalised people living with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy in Southwest China: a cross-sectional study by Jie Yuan, Hai Long, Min Liu, Juan He, Jue Liu, Yu Wu, Wenzhan Jing, Min Du, Manna Zhang, Yaping Wang, Su Song, Siqi Liu, Guiying Cao, Yuedong Liang, Xiaoxin Xie, Yanhua Fu

“…Female sex, those widowed or divorced, and thrombocytopenia were associated with increased odds of anaemia, and those widowed or divorced, thrombocytopenia and hepatitis C were associated with increased odds of severe anaemia. …”
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Phenotypes of primary sclerosing cholangitis in children by M.B. Dyba, V.S. Berezenko

“…Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) in children is a rare chronic immune-mediated disease of the biliary tract, which, unlike in adults, has a less aggressive course with da­mage to the intrahepatic bile ducts and is combined with autoimmune hepatitis, creating a special clinical phenotype of PSC, autoimmune sclerosing cholangitis (ASC). …”
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“Spice” (Synthetic Marijuana) Induced Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Case Series by E. Ul Haq, A. Shafiq, A. A. Khan, A. A. Awan, S. Ezad, W. J. Minteer, B. Omar

“…It is reported to cause ischemic strokes, hepatitis, anxiety, and psychosis. Although it is associated with dose dependent tachycardia and can lead to coronary vasospasm, it has not been directly related to acute myocardial infarction (AMI). …”
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Lone Hepatocellular Carcinoma: An Isolated Chest Wall Malignancy by Joseph Allencherril, Sebastian Bruera, Ronan Allencherril, Richard J. Hamill

“…The patient had no history of hepatitis, alcohol abuse, or illicit substance use. …”
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A Case of Recurrent Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis in an Immunocompetent Female by Negin Niknam, Negar Niknam, Kola Dushaj, Erfidia Restrepo

“…We describe a 39-year-old immunocompetent female that presented with neurologic deficits and increased intracranial pressure (ICP) due to cryptococcal meningoencephalitis that had a complicated course with drug induced hepatitis and persistently increased ICP that ultimately required shunt placement and presented again with relapse of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis after completion of antifungal treatment. …”
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SOCS1, a Negative Regulator of Cytokine Signals and TLR Responses, in Human Liver Diseases by Minoru Fujimoto, Tetsuji Naka

“…The studies using SOCS1-deficient mice revealed that endogenous SOCS1 is critical for the prevention of liver diseases such as hepatitis, cirrhosis, and cancers. Recent studies on humans suggest that SOCS1 is involved in the development of various liver disorders in humans. …”
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The Role of mTOR Inhibitors in Liver Transplantation: Reviewing the Evidence by Goran B. Klintmalm, Björn Nashan

“…Despite the success of liver transplantation, long-term complications remain, including de novo malignancies, metabolic syndrome, and the recurrence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). …”
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A Severe Case of Drug-Induced Liver Injury after Gemcitabine Administration: A Highly Probable Causality Grading as Assessed by the Updated RUCAM Diagnostic Scoring System by Ilenia Mascherona, Caterina Maggioli, Maira Biggiogero, Oreste Mora, Lucia Marelli

“…We reported the clinical case of a 73--year-old man who developed clinically significant acute hepatic injury after using gemcitabine. Possible causes, clinical presentation, and treatments are discussed. …”
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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF INFECTION CONTROL AMONG DENTAL PRACTITIONERS IN ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL DENTAL HOSPITAL,RIPHAH by Ufaq Rao, Abdul Razaq Khan, Zarnab Rizwan, Ghina Rizwan, Syed Hamza Zia

“…Result: Out of 147, 123 participants responded to our questionnaire. 75.6% of the participants were vaccinated against hepatitis B and 87.8% regularly wash their hands before and after dental treatment.100% of the participants wore and change gloves after each patient. …”
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Biochemical Features of Alcohol-Induced Liver Disease in Native Versus Non-Native Canadians by GY Minuk, W Thompson

“…The study also revealed chat the mean duration of hospital stay for native Canadians with alcoholic hepatitis is significantly shorter than for nonnatives (8.5±6.0 versus 12.7±1 1.2 days, respectively, PÃ0.05) and the overall duration of hospital stay for patients with alcoholic liver injury has decreased in recent years from 26 days (May 1984-85) to 9.3 days (May 1987-88). …”
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