Hepatitis Bs antibody in alcoholic cirrhosis.

Hepatitis Bs antibody in alcoholic cirrhosis.

Sera from patients with chronic liver disease were tested for antibody against hepatitis B surface antigen by radioimmunoassay. The antibody was found in 25% of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis and in 52% when alcoholic cirrhosis was associated with portal hypertension, these results being significantly higher than in a matched control population. Other forms of chronic liver disease did not d...

Alcoholic Hepatitis, Alcoholic Cirrhosis & Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)

Hepatitis C Virus, Alcoholic Cirrhosis, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma1

Abstrad We undertook a retrospedive study to determine the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infedion in 81 Caucasian patients with confirmed hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Besides HBV and HCV serological markers, HCV RNA and HBV DNA were deteded in serum and liver tissue by polymerase chain readion. Overall, HCV RNA was found in 20 cases (25%), HBV DNA in 21 pa...

Hepatitis C virus, alcoholic cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma.

We undertook a retrospective study to determine the prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in 81 Caucasian patients with confirmed hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Besides HBV and HCV serological markers, HCV RNA and HBV DNA were detected in serum and liver tissue by polymerase chain reaction. Overall, HCV RNA was found in 20 cases (25%), HBV DNA in 21 patien...

Constitutional factors in alcoholic cirrhosis.

The different sensitivity of the male and the female liver is well established, but there is an obvious difference in male livers as well. One possible explanation for these differences might be the existence of genetic peculiarities among patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. In the early twentieth, Chvostek in Vienna was the first to draw attention to a constitutional element which he believed t...