Etiologies and Outcomes of Acute Liver Failure in a Spanish Community by Emilio Fábrega, Miguel Ángel Mieses, Alvaro Terán, Irene Moraleja, Fernando Casafont, Javier Crespo, Fernando Pons-Romero

“…Previous retrospective study (1992 to 2000) performed in Spain showed that drug toxicity, viral hepatitis, and indeterminate etiology were the most prevalent causes of acute liver failure (ALF). …”
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Karakteristik Pasien Sirosis Hepatis di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Angela Lovena, Saptino Miro, Efrida Efrida

“…Data yang diambil yaitu tes serologi untuk hepatitis B dan hepatitis C, kadar albumin, jumlah trombosit, kadar kreatinin serum dan komplikasi sirosis hepatis. …”
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Acute Liver Failure among Patients on Efavirenz-Based Antiretroviral Therapy by Innocent Lule Segamwenge, Miriam Kaunanele Bernard

“…All these patients had been treated with a range of Efavirenz containing antiretroviral regimens and were negative for hepatitis A, B, and C infections as well as other opportunistic infections, all were negative for autoimmune hepatitis, and none had evidence of chronic liver disease or use of alcohol or herbal medications. …”
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Algorithm of management of patient with alcohol-induced liver disease by M. V. Mayevskaya, M. A. Morozova

“…The alcohol-induced liver disease includes some variants of parenchymal damage caused by regular alcohol intake: steatosis, alcoholic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis (LC). There are series of factors contributing to ALD development. …”
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Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Presenting as High Output Cardiac Failure during Pregnancy by Tareq Goussous, Alex Haynes, Katherine Najarian, Marcos Daccarett, Shukri David

“…High-output cardiac failure secondary to hepatic involvement is a rare complication of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). …”
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Angiomyolipoma in a Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis: Managing Two Rare Diseases by Jonathan Mayes, Nigel Heaton

“…Hepatic angiomyolipoma is an extremely rare benign hamartomatous lesion. …”
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Klatskin tumor (<i>Review of literature</i>) by I. V. Mayev, D. T. Dicheva, D. N. Andreyev, T. V. Penkina

“…Article reviews of cumulated literature data on the rare form of cholangiocarcinoma in bifurcation of hepatic ducts and named after Gerald Klatskin.Key points. …”
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Influence of Omega-3 and Green Tea Extract on Alcohol-Induced Liver Injury in Rats by Ridha Hassan Hussein, Zana Hassan Ibrahim

“…Aqueous extracts of GT and OMG-3 oil significantly improved alcohol-induced liver injury through improvement of serum markers of hepatic injury, their hypolipidemic actions and hepatic histologic recovery. …”
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Replacement of Dietary Fishmeal Protein with Degossypolized Cottonseed Protein on Growth Performance, Nonspecific Immune Response, Antioxidant Capacity, and Target of Rapamycin Pat... by Sheng Chen, Yuhang Tang, Zhou Zhang, Jichang Zheng, Yuliang He, Zhen Wang, Kangsen Mai, Qinghui Ai

“…Furthermore, fish fed the diet with 20% DCP significantly increased the activity of hepatic superoxide dismutase (SOD) compared with the control group (P<0.05). …”
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Human Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy Ameliorates Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Obese Type 2 Diabetic Mice by Bing Li, Yu Cheng, Songyan Yu, Li Zang, Yaqi Yin, Jiejie Liu, Lin Zhang, Yiming Mu

“…Human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) have shown therapeutic potential for diabetes and hepatic disorders such as liver cirrhosis and fulminant hepatic failure. …”
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Bacillus subtilis HGCC-1 improves growth performance and liver health via regulating gut microbiota in golden pompano by Ming Li, Hui Liang, Jian Zhang, Jie Chen, Shichang Xu, Wenhao Zhou, Qianwen Ding, Yalin Yang, Zhen Zhang, Yuanyuan Yao, Chao Ran, Zhigang Zhou

“…Besides, HGCC-1 improved liver health and alleviated hepatic steatosis and inflammation. Furthermore, Bacillus subtilis HGCC-1 enhanced intestinal lipid absorption, promoted hepatic utilization of dietary fat by improving hepatic lipid uptake/transport and fatty acid β-oxidation to provide energy, and reduced hepatic TG level (P < 0.05), which may be the potential mechanism of Bacillus subtilis HGCC-1-mediated growth promotion. …”
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Acute and Fatal Isoniazid-Induced Hepatotoxicity: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Wissam K. Kabbara, Aline T. Sarkis, Paola G. Saroufim

“…Laboratory results and imaging confirmed hepatitis. After ruling out all other possible causes, she was diagnosed with isoniazid-induced acute hepatitis (probable association by the Naranjo scale). …”
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A Moderate Zinc Deficiency Does Not Alter Lipid and Fatty Acid Composition in the Liver of Weanling Rats Fed Diets Rich in Cocoa Butter or Safflower Oil by Edgar Weigand, Jennifer Egenolf

“…The aim of the study was to examine whether a moderate zinc deficiency alters hepatic lipid composition. Male weanling rats, assigned to five groups (8 animals each), were fed low-carbohydrate high-fat diets supplemented with 7 or 50 mg Zn/kg (LZ or HZ) and 22% cocoa butter (CB) or 22% safflower oil (SF) for four weeks. …”
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Antimicrobial, Anti-Inflammatory, Antiparasitic, and Cytotoxic Activities of Laennecia confusa by María G. Martínez Ruiz, Melissa Richard-Greenblatt, Zaida N. Juárez, Yossef Av-Gay, Horacio Bach, Luis R. Hernández

“…Nesom (Asteraceae). Fractions from the hexane, chloroform, methanol, and aqueous extracts were analyzed for antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, and antiparasitic activities. …”
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Xanthogranulomatous Cholecystitis Mimicking Carcinoma Gallbladder by Elisha Poddar, Prakash Mainali, Suraj Shrestha, Pratima Gautam, Anuradha Twayana, Niharika Pathak, Ashish Tiwari, Abhishek Bhattarai, Laligen Awale, Prasan Singh Kansakar

“…Intraoperatively, there was a mass in the gallbladder and extension into the adjacent structures with involvement of the hepatic artery, 1st part of the duodenum, portal vein, and hepatic flexure of the colon, and thus a palliative cholecystectomy was done. …”
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Atypical Manifestation of DRESS Syndrome by Christopher Hakim, Constantine Melitas, Eric Nguyen, Kha Ngo

“…The differential for liver transaminases over 1000 units/liter typically includes liver ischemia, acute viral hepatitis, acetaminophen toxicity, and autoimmune hepatitis. …”
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A Quarter Century of Liver Transplantation: Learning from Livers by Paul C. Adams

“…Transplantation for metabolic diseases with resolution of the disease process has been the ultimate proof of the hepatic source of the defect. Recurrence of the primary disease in the liver following transplantation has furthered understanding of the pathogenesis of hepatitis and the cell biology of hepatobiliary tumours. …”
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SERT-Deficient Mice Fed Western Diet Reveal Altered Metabolic and Pro-Inflammatory Responses of the Liver: A Link to Abnormal Behaviors by Raymond Cespuglio, Anna Gorlova, Konstantin Zabegalov, Kirill Chaprov, Evgeniy Svirin, Kseniia Sitdikova, Alisa Burova, Boris Shulgin, Ksenia Lebedeva, Alexei V. Deikin, Sergey Morozov, Tatyana Strekalova

“…Growing evidence suggests the significance of hepatic regulatory mechanisms in the neurobiology of central nervous system disorders, supporting the ‘liver-brain’ concept. …”
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Profiling of Indigenous Biosurfactant-Producing Bacillus Isolates in the Bioremediation of Soil Contaminated by Petroleum Products and Olive Oil by Paola Sandra Elenga-Wilson, Christian Aimé Kayath, Nicaise Saturnin Mokemiabeka, Stech Anomene Eckzechel Nzaou, Etienne Nguimbi, Gabriel Ahombo

“…The degradation characteristics for a variety of hydrocarbons (hexane, benzene, gasoline, and diesel) were qualitatively and quantitatively investigated using Bacillus isolates. …”
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STING modulates HBV-related acute-on-chronic liver failure by mediating autophagy and macrophage polarization by Hao Zhang, Teng Liang, Wanlu Duan, Futing Liu, LiPing Li, Qian Liu, Jianfei Li, Qiyin Zong, Lei Jin, Qin Wang, Qiang Zhou

“…Presently, there is a paucity of experimental models that specifically focus on HBV-ACLF based on chronic hepatitis B. Therefore, this study aimed to establish an experimental mouse model of HBV-ACLF using chronic hepatitis B (CHB) as a basis and investigate the impact of STING activation on the disease. …”
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