News tagged with chronic liver failure
Hepatic encephalopathy and prehepatic portal hypertension rat model
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Portal hypertension is responsible for severe and often lethal complications of cirrhosis. Another important syndrome is hepatic encephalopathy as a consequence of acute and chronic liver failure, which is characterized by ...
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Is molecular adsorbent recirculating system effective for all the liver failure patients?
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Since its introduction in 1993, molecular adsorbent recirculating system (MARS) albumin dialysis has been a subject of research, with the hope of treating effectively patients with acute liver failure. The impact of MARS ...
FDA issues alert about HIV drug Prezista
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 24, 2008 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an alert concerning reports of liver injury in patients taking Prezista.
Medication effective for acute liver failure in early stages of disease
Oct 08, 2009 |
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The antidote for acute liver failure caused by acetaminophen poisoning also can treat acute liver failure due to most other causes if given before severe injury occurs, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers ...
Liver damage in hepatitis C patients could be treated with warfarin, says study
Jul 31, 2008 |
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The drug warfarin may help prevent liver failure in thousands of people with Hepatitis C, according to new research.
Liver disease 'shrunk' by blood-pressure drug
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A blood-pressure medicine has been shown to reverse the effects of early-stage liver failure in some patients.
Keeping hepatitis C virus at bay after a liver transplant
Oct 01, 2009 |
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One of the most common reasons for needing a liver transplant is liver failure or liver cancer caused by liver cell infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, in nearly all patients the new liver becomes infected with ...
Artificial liver may extend lives
Jun 02, 2009 |
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The first artificial organ for liver patients that uses immortalized human liver cells, the Extracorporeal Liver Assist Device, or ELAD®, is a bedside system that treats blood plasma, metabolizing toxins and synthesizing ...
Elevated lymphotoxin expression in liver leads to chronic hepatitis and causes HCC
Oct 05, 2009 |
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A recent study maps the pathway that leads from infection with Hepatitis B and C virus (HBV and HCV) to chronic hepatitis and liver cancer and proposes a new therapeutic strategy for treating liver diseases with chronic inflammation. ...
Liver damage in Hepatitis C patients could be treated with warfarin, says new study
Jul 31, 2008 |
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The drug warfarin may help prevent liver failure in thousands of people with Hepatitis C, according to new research.
Anemia associated with greater risk of death in heart disease patients
May 28, 2009 |
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May 28, 2009 - A new study appearing in Congestive Heart Failure has found that the presence of anemia in patients with chronic heart failure is associated with a significantly increased risk of death. The findings also s ...
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