2013, Number 1

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Hepatology Highlights

Peltekian, Kevork M

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Use of acetylcysteine for non-acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure

Ibrahim Sales; Amy L Dzierba; Pamela L Smithburger; Deanna Rowe; Sandra L Kane-Gill

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Herbal hepatotoxicity and WHO global introspection method

Teschke, Rolf; Eickhoff, Axel; Wolff, Albrecht; Frenzel, Christian; Schulze, Johannes

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Hepatic venous pressure gradient measurement in pre-primary and primary prophylaxis of variceal hemorrhage

Julio D Vorobioff; Roberto J Groszmann

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Safety and efficacy of treatment with pegylated interferon alpha-2a with ribavirin in chronic hepatitis C genotype 4

Juan José Urquijo; Moisés Diago; Jaume Boadas; Ramón Planas; Ricard Solá; Juan Angel del Olmo; Crespo, Javier; José Carlos Erdozaín; María Dolores Antón; Carlos Arocena; Dolores Suarez; Josep Giné; Josep M Barrera; Javier García-Samaniego; Ricardo Pérez; Dalmau, Blai; Miguel Montoro

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Long-term follow-up of hepatitis C virus-positive patients with persistently normal serum transaminases

Emanuele La Spada; Soresi, Maurizio; Giannitrapani, Lydia; Monica La Spada; Elisa Campagna; Antonino Terranova; Fabio Cartabellotta; Montalto, Giuseppe

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Diagnostic value of fibronectin discriminant score for predicting liver fibrosis stages in chronic hepatitis C virus patients

Attallah, Abdelfattah M; Sanaa O Abdallah; Attallah, Ahmed A; Omran, Mohamed M; Farid, Khaled; Wesam A Nasif; Shiha, Gamal E; Abdel-Aziz F Abdel-Aziz; Nancy Rasafy; Yehia M Shaker

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Liver fibrosis in young Egyptian beta-thalassemia major patients: relation to hepatitis C virus and compliance with chelation

Mohsen S Elalfy; Esmat, Gamal; Randa M Matter; Hesham E Abdel Aziz; Walid A Massoud

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Patients younger than forty years old with hepatitis C virus genotype-1 chronic infection had treatment responses similar to genotype-2 infection and not related to interleukin-28B polymorphism

Chun-Yen Lin; I-Shyan Sheen; Wen-Juei Jeng; Chang-Wen Huang; Chien-Hao Huang; Ji-Yih Chen

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Utility of noninvasive methods for the characterization of nonalcoholic liver steatosis in the family practice. The “VARES” Italian multicenter study

Ignazio Grattagliano; Enzo Ubaldi; Luigi Napoli; Carlo Fedele Marulli; Cristina Nebiacolombo; Carmelo Cottone; Portincasa, Piero

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Hepatitis C virus infection in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis

Hsuan-Wei Chen; Hsin-Hung Huang; Ching-Huang Lai; Wei-En Chang; Yu-Lueng Shih; Wei-Kuo Chang; Tsai-Yuan Hsieh; Heng-Cheng Chu

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Impact of the severity of end-stage liver disease in cardiac structure and function

Odilson Marcos Silvestre; Fernando Bacal; Danusa de Souza Ramos; Jose L Andrade; Meive Furtado; Vincenzo Pugliese; Elisangela Belleti; Wellington Andraus; Flair José Carrilho; Luiz Augusto Carneiro D’Albuquerque; Alberto Queiroz Farias

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High age and low sodium urine concentration are associated with poor survival in patients with hepatorenal syndrome

Matthias Hinz; Alexander Wree; Jochum, Christoph; Lars P Bechmann; Fuat Saner; Alexander L Gerbes; Gerken, Guido; Canbay, Ali

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Feasibility and reliability of the FibroScan S2 (pediatric) probe compared with the M probe for liver stiffness measurement in small adults with chronic liver disease

Faruq Pradhan; Farah Ladak; Jenna Tracey; Pam Crotty; Robert P Myers

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How to diagnose hepatic encephalopathy in the emergency department

Gundling, Felix; Edin Zelihic; Holger Seidl; Haller, Bernhard; Umgelter, Andreas; Schepp, Wolfgang; Christoph Dodt

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Therapeutic effects of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor on non-alcoholic hepatic steatosis in the rat

Yi-Sun Song; Cheng-Hu Fang; Byung-Im So; Jun-Young Park; Dae Won Jun; Kyung-Soo Kim

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Spondias pinnata stem bark extract lessens iron overloaded liver toxicity due to hemosiderosis in Swiss albino mice

Bibhabasu Hazra; Rhitajit Sarkar; Nripendranath Mandal

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Evidence that estrogen receptors play a limited role in mediating enhanced recovery of bile flow in female rats in the acute phase of liver ischemia reperfusion injury

Heleen A H de Vries; Fraukje A M Ponds; Vincent B Nieuwenhuijs; Arthur Morphett; Robert T A Padbury; Greg J Barritt

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Granulomatous hepatitis caused by Q fever: a differential diagnosis of fever of unknown origin

Aguilar-Olivos, Nancy; Manzano-Robleda, María del Carmen; Gutiérrez-Grobe, Ylse; Chablé-Montero, Fredy; Albores-Saavedra, Jorge; Eric López-Méndez

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Hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis-negative patients with thalassemia intermedia: a closer look at the role of siderosis

Joseph E Maakaron; Maria Domenica Cappellini; Giovanna Graziadei; Jad Bou Ayache; Ali T Taher

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Autoimmune hepatitis type-2 and Epstein-Barr virus infection in a toddler: art of facts or an artifact?

Aglaia Zellos; Vana Spoulou; Eleftheria Roma-Giannikou; Ourania Karentzou; George N Dalekos; Maria Theodoridou

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Severe hepatitis induced by cyproterone acetate: role of corticosteroids. A case report

Abenavoli L; Natasa Milic; Beaugrand, Michel

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First successful treatment of post-liver transplant hepatitis C fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis with boceprevir, peginterferon and ribavirin in a pre-transplant null responder

Nahdi, Nawal Al; Ford, Jo-Ann; Greanya, Erica D; Jo-Ann Harrigan; Irene Tse; Urs P Steinbrecher; Erb, Siegfried R; Yoshida, Eric M

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Probiotics: a possible role in treatment of adult and pediatric non alcoholic fatty liver disease

Pietro Vajro; Claudia Mandato; Claudio Veropalumbo; Ida De Micco

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Raloxifene hydrochloride as hepatitis C treatment

Motola-Kuba, Miguel; Méndez-Sánchez, Nahum