2014, Number 1

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Hepatology highlights

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The impact of bacterial infections on survival of patients with decompensated cirrhosis

Strauss, Edna

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Anti-HBc positivity was associated with histological cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Coppola, Nicola; Ivan Gentile; Giuseppe Pasquale; Antonio Riccardo Buonomo; Nicolina Capoluongo; Maria D’Armiento; Guglielmo Borgia; Sagnelli, Evangelista

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Diabetes worsening of hepatitis C cirrhosis: Are alterations in monocytic tissue factor (CD 142) is the cause?

El Makarem, Mona A Abu; Eslam, Mohammed; Sayed, Douaa; Mohamed Shawkat; Naglaa K Idriss; Elwy M Soliman; Tahra Sherif; Ragaa Abdelshaheed; Hesham Abdelhailm; Mohamed A Sahrawi; Sahar Elheney

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Incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis C cirrhotic patients with and without HIV infection: a cohort study, 1999-2011

Nicolas Di Benedetto; Mirta Peralta; Estela Alvarez; María Teresa Schroder; Claudio Estepo; Silvia Paz; Hugo Fainboim

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Stem cell and hepatocyte proliferation in hepatitis C cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma: transplant implications

Martha K Behnke; Mark Reimers; Robert A Fisher

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Prediction of poor graft function by means of gastric tonometry in patients undergoing liver transplantation

Valter Perilli; Paola Aceto; Cristina Modesti; Francesca Vitale; Pierpaolo Ciocchetti; Teresa Sacco; Alessia Adduci; Carlo Lai; Alfonso W Avolio; Liliana Sollazzi

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Predictors of chronic liver disease in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus infection

Nila Rafiq; Maria Stepanova; Brian Lam; Fatema Nader; Manirath Srishord; Younossi, Zobair M

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Primary prophylaxis with ciprofloxacin in cirrhotic patients with ascites: a randomized, double blind study

Tellez-Avila, Félix; Sifuentes-Osornio, José; Barbero-Becerra, Varenka; Ada Franco-Guzmán; Ruiz-Cordero, Roberto; Roberto Alfaro-Lara; Ángeles Hernández-Ramírez; Florencia Vargas-Vorácková

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Band ligation vs. N-Butyl-2-cyanoacrylate injection in acute gastric variceal bleeding: a prospective follow-up study

Marcel Tantau; Dana Crisan; Daniel Popa; Stefan Vesa; Alina Tantau

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Statin use is not associated with liver related mortality

Younoszai, Zahra; Li Zheng; Maria Stepanova; Madeline Erario; Rebecca Cable; Younossi, Zobair M

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Non-invasive methods for the assessment of hepatic fibrosis: transient elastography, hyaluronic acid, ¹³C-aminopyrine breath test and cytokeratin 18 fragment

Gian Paolo Caviglia; Alessia Ciancio; Chiara Rosso; Maria Lorena Abate; Antonella Olivero; Rinaldo Pellicano; Giovanni Antonio Touscoz; Antonina Smedile; Rizzetto, Mario

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Bilirubin alone as a biomarker for short-term mortality in acute-on-chronic liver failure: an important prognostic indicator

Jorge A López-Velázquez; Chávez-Tapia, Norberto C; Ponciano-Rodríguez, Guadalupe; Sánchez-Valle, Vicente; Caldwell, Stephen H; Uribe, Misael; Méndez-Sánchez, Nahum

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Effects of bile acid sequestration on hepatic steatosis in obese mice

Solís, Nancy; Pizarro, Margarita; Pablo Quintero; Arab, Juan Pablo; Riquelme, Arnoldo; Padilla, Oslando; Carrasco, Gonzalo; Pirola, Carlos J; Sookoian, Silvia; Arrese, Marco

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Kinetics of the inflammatory response induced by free fatty acid accumulation in hepatocytes

Chávez-Tapia, Norberto C; Natalia Rosso; Uribe, Misael; Rafel Bojalil; Tiribelli, Claudio

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Drug induced liver injury: do we still need a routine liver biopsy for diagnosis today?

Teschke, Rolf; Frenzel, Christian

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Autoimmune hepatitis in patients with chronic HBV and HCV infections: patterns of clinical characteristics, disease progression and outcome

Eirini I Rigopoulou; Kalliopi Zachou; Nikolaos Gatselis; George K Koukoulis; George N Dalekos

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Autoimmune liver disorders and small-vessel vasculitis: four case reports and review of the literature

Francesco Tovoli; Antonio Vannini; Marco Fusconi; Magda Frisoni; Daniela Zauli

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Portal hypertension and acute liver failure as uncommon manifestations of primary amyloidosis

Norero, Blanca; Pérez-Ayuso, Rosa María; Duarte, Ignacio; Pablo Ramirez; Soza, Alejandro; Arrese, Marco; Benítez, Carlos

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Serum visfatin in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Polyzos, Stergios A; Kountouras,Jannis; Iordanis Romiopoulos; Polymerou, Vaia

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Chemokines: potent mediators of hepatic inflammation and fibrosis in chronic liver diseases

Handa, Priya; Kowdley, Kris V