Advancing care in high-grade liver injuries: the transformative impact of multidisciplinary collaboration by Natasha Keric, Ara J Feinstein

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Noninvasive Imaging Test to Assess Liver Fibrosis: Vibration-controlled Transient Elastography by Mi Na Kim

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Systemic Venous Inflow to the Liver Allograft to Overcome Diffuse Splanchnic Venous Thrombosis by Cristian Lupascu, Tom Darius, Pierre Goffette, Jan Lerut

“…Diffuse splanchnic venous thrombosis (DSVT), formerly defined as contraindication for liver transplantation (LT), is a serious challenge to the liver transplant surgeon. …”
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Steatohepatitis Is Not Associated with an Increased Risk for Fibrosis Progression in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Hannes Hagström, Olof Elfwén, Rolf Hultcrantz, Per Stål

“…Introduction. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease globally. …”
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Effect of Uncaria rhynchophylla against Thioacetamide-Induced Acute Liver Injury in Rat by Mi-Rae Shin, Min Ju Kim, Jin A Lee, Seong-Soo Roh

“…Both oxidative stress (OS) and inflammation are two fundamental pathological processes of acute liver injury (ALI). The current work is to investigate the effect and possible mechanism of Uncaria rhynchophylla (UR) on thioacetamide- (TAA-) induced ALI in rats. …”
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Immune and Inflammatory Responses of the Intestinal Mucosa following Extended Liver Radiofrequency Ablation by Petros Ypsilantis, Maria Lambropoulou, Antonios Evagellou, Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Constantinos Simopoulos

“…Background and Aim. Extended liver radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has been shown to disrupt gut barrier integrity with subsequent bacterial translocation. …”
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Single Port Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Preliminary Report by Stephen Kin Yong Chang, Maria Mayasari, Iyer Shridhar Ganpathi, Victor Lee Tswen Wen, Krishnakumar Madhavan

“…The experience of using this technique in liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma is described in a series of 3 cases with single port laparoscopic liver resection performed during 2010. …”
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Antioxidant and hepatoprotective effects of Hypsizygus ulmarius polysaccharide on alcoholic liver injury in rats by Sudha Govindan, Angu Jayabal, Jayasakthi Shanmugam, Prasanna Ramani

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A Case of Histoplasma capsulatum Causing Granulomatous Liver Disease and Addisonian Crisis by P Wong, S Houston, B Power, E Lalor, VG Bain

“…A 56-year-old man with persistently elevated liver enzyme levels, fatigue, lethargy and a 9.0 kg weight loss over six months underwent a percutaneous liver biopsy that demonstrated multiple granulomas. …”
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Stem Cell-Based Therapies for Liver Diseases: State of the Art and New Perspectives by Anna Chiara Piscaglia, Mariachiara Campanale, Antonio Gasbarrini, Giovanni Gasbarrini

“…Millions of patients worldwide suffer from end-stage liver pathologies, whose only curative therapy is liver transplantation (OLT). …”
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Modified Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Patient with Gastric Adenocarcinoma and Metastases to Bone and Liver by Gennie Wang, Brian Milne, Rachel Rooney, Tarit Saha

“…We present a successful case of ECT to treat chronic major depressive disorder in a 62-year-old woman at high risk of bone fracture due to gastric adenocarcinoma with metastases to bone and liver. Case. Increasing doses of the muscle relaxant succinylcholine (0.45–0.74 mg/kg) were sufficient to prevent musculoskeletal complications throughout the course of 9 bifrontal ECT treatments. …”
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How Does Interleukin-22 Mediate Liver Regeneration and Prevent Injury and Fibrosis? by Muhammad Babar Khawar, Fareeha Azam, Nadeem Sheikh, Khawaja Abdul Mujeeb

“…IL-22 is mainly produced by dendritic cells (DCs) and TH17, TH22, NK, and NKT cells and targets a number of body tissues including liver, pancreas, and other epithelial tissues. It provokes a series of downstream signaling pathways upon binding with IL-22R complex which protects liver damage through STAT3 activation. …”
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Role of hepatocyte RIPK1 in maintaining liver homeostasis during metabolic challenges by Weigao Zhang, Hu Liu, Danyang Zhang, Yuguo Yi, Liang Tao, Yunfeng Zhu, Shuxian Huang, Xunan Zhao, Qianchao Shao, Peiqi Li, Yiwen Weng, Wei Lu, Jianfa Zhang, Haibing Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Dan Weng

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Study on the Application of Doxorubicin-Loaded Magnetic Nanodrugs in Targeted Therapy of Liver Cancer by Lei Wang, Liping Liang, Shuzhen Shi, Chao Wang

“…The aim of this study was to use the drug carrier dextran/polylactic acid (DEX/PLA) and paramagnetic Fe3O4 to improve the targeting of DOX in liver cancer treatment while reducing its potential organ toxicity. …”
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Ginsenoside Rg1: A bioactive therapeutic agent for diverse liver diseases by Mingyu Wu, Ke Li, Jiabin Wu, Xianyi Ding, Xiaotong Ma, Wenhong Wang, Weihua Xiao

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Serum biomarkers in the metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver fibrosis diagnosis in children by Yu.M. Stepanov, N.Yu. Zavhorodnia, I.A. Klenina, O.M. Tatarchuk, O.P. Petishko

Subjects: “…metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease;…”
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Analysis of the Serum Bile Acid Composition for Differential Diagnosis in Patients with Liver Disease by Tomonori Sugita, Katsushi Amano, Masanori Nakano, Noriko Masubuchi, Masahiro Sugihara, Tomokazu Matsuura

“…We determined the serum bile acid (BA) composition in patients with liver diseases and healthy volunteers to investigate the relationship between the etiologies of liver disease and BA metabolism. …”
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Giant Gastroschisis with Complete Liver Herniation: A Case Report of Two Patients by Wendy Jo Svetanoff, Benjamin Zendejas, Farokh R. Demehri, Alex Cuenca, Bharath Nath, C. Jason Smithers

“…There are no reported survivors of gastroschisis with complete liver herniation. We describe a case report of two patients, one of whom survived. …”
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Barriers Preventing Liver Transplantation in Canadians with HIV Infection – Perceptions of HIV Specialists by Curtis L Cooper, Joanne DeForest, John Gill, Richard Lalonde, on behalf of the Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) Co-Infection Core Group

“…There are accumulating data indicating that this procedure is helpful in HIV-infected patients as well. Liver transplantation is currently largely unavailable to those living with HIV in Canada. …”
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Transgenerational Obesity and Alteration of ARHGEF11 in the Rat Liver Induced by Intrauterine Hyperglycemia by Wanyi Zhang, Rina Su, Hui Feng, Li Lin, Chen Wang, Huixia Yang

“…The expression of ARHGEF11, ROCK1, PI3K, and AKT was tested in the liver and muscle tissue of F2 offspring. The results showed severe growth restriction in F1 offspring and obesity, fatty liver, and insulin resistance in female F2 offspring, especially the offspring of female intrauterine hyperglycemia-exposed parents (F2G♀C♂) and both (F2G♀G♂). …”
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