... with the first AI tools entering routine clinical practice, for example, in colorectal cancer screening. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is a highly reliable, low-risk, and low-cost diagnostic modality for the examination of the liver. However, doctors need many years of training and experience to master...

...Sotiria Bedreli; Dimitrios Eleftheriadis; Michael Jahn; Ali Canbay; Fuat Saner; Antonios Katsounas Introduction: For over 30 years, ascites has been postulated to facilitate fibrinolysis in patients with liver cirrhosis. In contrast to previous research employing conventional coagulation tests...

...Sabine Weber; Grace L.H. Wong; Vincent W.S. Wong; Andreas Benesic; Henry L.Y. Chan; Alexander L. Gerbes Background: Drug-induced liver injury caused by herbal and dietary supplements (HDS) has been an increasingly important phenomenon in recent years. Diagnosis is the major challenge. Definite...

...Olympia E. Anastasiou; Betül Dogan-Cavus; Ozlem Kucukoglu; Hideo Baba; Alisan Kahraman; Guido Gerken; Christoph Schramm; Ali Canbay Background/Aims: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a relatively rare cause of liver dysfunction and may lead in some cases to acute liver failure (ALF). The aim of our...

...) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as bridging therapy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) awaiting orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) and to evaluate the histopathological response in explant specimens. Materials and Methods: Between April 2001 and November 2011, 36 patients with 50 HCC nodules (1.4...

...% (48 of 64 HCCs). The median survival for all patients was 25.5 months. The 1-, 2-, 3- and 5-year survival rates were 84.6, 58.7, 37.6 and 14.6%, respectively. Statistical analysis revealed a significant difference in survival between Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) A (73.4 months) and B (50.3...

...Palnæs Hansen; F. Stadil; J.F. Rehfeld The elimination of endogenous carboxyamidated and glycine-extended gas-trins in liver and gut was studied before and after feeding in 14 anesthetized pigs. Before the meal, liver and gut extractions were nonsignificant. After feeding, the release rate...

...Dieter Häussinger; Matthias Wettstein; Ulrich Warkulat; Stephan vom Dahl; Birgitta Noé; Freimut Schliess Digestion Liver and Bile Ducts Digestion 1997;58(suppl l):2l 23 225. u m , warkuiat Stephan vom Dahl Birgitta Noe Freimut Schliess Medizinische Universitätsklinik. Heinrich-Heine-Universität...

...J. v. Schönfeld; N. Breuer; R. Zotz; H. Liedmann; M. Wencker; M. Beste; N. Konietzko; H. Goebell α 1 -Antitrypsin deficiency predisposes to pulmonary emphysema, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Anecdotal evidence and a large autopsy study suggest that severe lung and liver disease...

... before and after treatment with methotrexate, a potentially hepatotoxic drug) by immunohistochemical methods. Histologically normal liver biopsies from patients undergoing abdominal surgery served as normal controls. Hepatic parenchymal nerves were absent in cirrhotic nodules and were depleted...

... of patients eventually die or undergo liver transplantation. In this single-center prospective long-term study, we analyzed the effect of UDCA therapy (10 mg/kg b.w./day) on conventional liver function tests and we also investigated whether serial quantitative liver function tests are useful in the clinical...

...Walter Gianni; Giuseppe De Vincentis; Paolo Graziano; Maria lerardi; Filippo Luca Fimognari; Maria Banci; Paola Gazzaniga; Mauro Cacciafesta; Ugo Di Tondo; Francesco Scopinaro; Vincenzo Marigliano The epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the liver has been recently characterized as a rare tumor...

...Peeyush Sharma; Maria Weichetek; Wojtek Karlik; Bengt Jeppsson; Stanislaw Garwacki Background : The objective of this study was to study in vitro ammonia utilization and urea synthesis by the rat liver after portacaval shunt (PCS) in comparison to controls. This study is part of a series...

... in bile only after injection of a small amount of blood. In the liver, a transient increase in echogenicity was noted after a few shocks; it coincided with the region of tissue damage. Intense focal echoes occurred in the liver of 2 dogs at sites where a hematoma was found at autopsy. It is concluded...

...Erzsébet Fehér; Mariann Fodor; Tamás Görcs; János Fehér; Károly Vallent The course and distribution of neuropeptide Y (NPY)-immunoreactive (ir) nerves in the human liver was studied using immunohistochemistry. The distribution and density of NPY-ir fibers was compared with tyrosine hydroxylase (TH...

... in the liver. This study was designed to examine the action of EGF administered intraduodenally (i.d.), intravenously (i.v.) or intraportally (i.p.) on pentagastrin-stimulated gastric and pancreatic secretion and to determine the role of liver in the EGF uptake. In conscious dogs with gastric and pancreatic...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 1984 Amyloid Amyloidosis Liver Liver pathology Digestion 29: 138-145 (1984) © 1984 S. Karger AG, Basel 0012-282.3...

...H. Held The effect of alcohol in addition with respectively phenobarbital and pyrazole on the heme and porphyrin synthesis in the liver of male rats was studied. After a single dose of 2 g alcohol/kg p.o. the activity of the δ-aminolevulinic acid synthetase (ALA synthetase) in the liver of starving...

...F. Bertrand; D. Veissiere; J. Picard D -Galactosamine administration to rats (400mg/kg) by intraperitoneal injection induced biochemical alterations in liver plasma membranes. Alterations were studied 4, 16 and 24 h after D -galactosamine injection. Plasma membrane 5’-mononucleotidase activity...

...P. Melkebeke; J. Vandepitte; R. Hannon; J. Fevery A 3 years evolution with amyloid involvement, primarily of the liver, in a patient is described. This led to intrahepatic cholestasis and to portal hypertension with esophageal varices. 2 07 1979 1 07 1980 © 1980 S. Karger AG, Basel...