2008, Number 3

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Hepatology Highlights

Cárdenas, Andrés

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PTEN at the crossroad of metabolic diseases and cancer in the liver

Manlio Vinciguerra; Michelangelo Foti

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Cavoportal hemitransposition for the simultaneous thrombosis of the caval and portal systems - a review of the literature

Dietmar H Borchert

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Imaging techniques for assessing hepatic fat content in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Roldán-Valadez, Ernesto; Rafael Favila; Manuel Martínez-López; Uribe, Misael; Méndez-Sánchez, Nahum

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Human hepatic met-enkephalin and delta opioid receptor-1 immunoreactivities in viral and autoimmune hepatitis

Vijaya D Boyella; Anthony D Nicastri; Bergasa, Nora V

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Mortality trends for liver cancer in Mexico from 2000 to 2006

Méndez-Sánchez, Nahum; Villa, Antonio R; Vázquez-Elizondo, Genaro; Ponciano-Rodríguez, Guadalupe; Uribe, Misael

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Model for end stage of liver disease (MELD) is better than the child-pugh score for predicting in-hospital mortality related to esophageal variceal bleeding

Flores-Rendón, Ángel Ricardo; González-González, José Alberto; García-Compean, Diego; Maldonado-Garza, Héctor Jesús; Aldo Azael Garza-Galindo

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Thrombopoietin level in patients with chronic liver diseases

Eissa, Laila A; Lamees S Gad; Ahmed M Rabie; Amal M El-Gayar

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Liver overload in Brazilian triathletes after half-ironman competition is related muscle fatigue

Marcos Bürger-Mendonça; Monica Bielavsky; Fernanda C R Barbosa

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Leptin in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Billur Canbakan; Veysel Tahan; Huriye Balci; Ibrahim Hatemi; Burak Erer; Gulsen Ozbay; Necdet Sut; Munire Hacibekiroglu; Nese Imeryuz; Hakan Senturk

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Leukocyte esterase reagent strips for Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis: what now?

Koulaouzidis, Anastasios; R El-ramli; Jaber Gasem; Athar A Saeed

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Recurrent giant cell hepatitis in an 18 year old liver transplant patient

Justin A Shah; Urs P Steinbrecher; Erb, Siegfried R; Susan P LTha; Yoshida EM

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Gallstone ileus one quarter of a century post cholecystectomy

Mahmud Saedon; Gourgiotis, Stavros; Nikolaos S Salemis; Ali W Majeed; Apostolos Zavos

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Salmonella sp Group A: A rare cause of bacterascites. A case report

Gustavo López-Arce; Torre-Delgadillo, Aldo; Félix I Téllez-Ávila

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Hepatic insulin resistance ties cholesterol gallstone formation and the metabolic syndrome

Peter Kovacs; Ulrike Kurtz; Henning Wittenburg

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XX Meeting of the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver September 15, 2008 Margarita Island, Venezuela
Abstracts section