Patents covering BioVie’s terlipressin liquid formulation now secured in the United States, India and Chile, and are pending in nine additional ...

When, in 1992, Tom Starzl and his team in Pittsburgh submitted a case report of a baboon-to-human liver transplant to The Lancet, I was a junior editor whose task it was to prepare his paper for ...

Here are five opportunities for growth in GI that Mel Ona, MD, president and founder of Ohana Endoscopy Center in Lapolei, Hawaii, and Shaibal Mazumdar, MD, a gastroenterologist at Aurora Advocate in ...

Cirrhosis was diagnosed on a clinical basis involving laboratory tests, endoscopic evidence, sonographic findings and liver histology ... and prophylaxis of variceal bleed if any (endoscopic ...

[10] The well-recognized hyperdynamic circulation in cirrhosis leads to a systematic ... synthesis of various proteins from the affected liver, the diminished storage capacity of the cirrhotic ...

Esophageal endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) site as a source of failure ... and failure to prevent rebleeding after day 5 ...

Model for End Stage Liver Disease score of ≥12), including complications of portal hypertension (known esophageal varices or history of variceal bleeds), or cirrhosis with complications (eg, history ...

variceal bleeding, hepatic encephalopathy, and development of ascites.2 The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) is usually activated in patients with liver cirrhosis and this represents a ...

Four in 10 people are thought to have a potentially serious liver condition known as MASLD. Reversing it is possible if you ...

Liver cirrhosis is a late-stage liver disease characterized by the gradual replacement of healthy liver tissue with scar tissue. This condition typically results from long-term chronic hepatitis, ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents a significant global health burden as one of the most common malignancies in individuals with chronic liver disease or cirrhosis. This malignancy evolves ...