Immunological Aspects of Alcoholic Hepatitis
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Immunological aspects of antiviral therapy of chronic hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) cause a large proportion of acute and chronic liver disease worldwide. Over the past decades many immunological studies defined host immune responses that mediate spontaneous clearance of acute HBV and HCV infection. However, host immune responses are also relevant in the context of treatment-induced clearance of chronic HBV and HCV infection....
متن کاملAlcoholic hepatitis
Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a clinical syndrome characterized by jaundice and liver failure that generally occurs after decades of harmful alcohol consumption. Less severe forms of acute AH (AAH) frequently respond to alcoholic abstinence; whereas severe AAHs are characterized by a poor prognosis: up to 40-60% of these patients die within six months. Glucocorticoids currently remain the mainsta...
متن کاملImmunological aspects of asthma.
PROFESSOR SCADDING's definition of asthma (Scad-ding, 1969) i.e. 'a condition characterized by variable dyspnoea with wheezing and prolonged expiration wholly or partially reversed by bronchodilators', is a clinical definition. It would be premature at this stage to attempt to define asthma in relation to its pathogenesis as this is still not understood. For the purpose of this symposium, howev...
متن کاملImmunological aspects of epilepsy.
In recent years, the concept of an immunological background of some types of epilepsy has been gaining an increasing number of supporters. The following article is an attempt to review the most significant studies that explore irregularities in patients with intractable epilepsy, search for and identify the immunological causal factors of seizures and, finally, associate these factors with part...
متن کاملImmunological aspects of bagassosis.
Immunological investigations of 37 patients with bagassosis, 92 unaffected bagasse workers, and i5o non-exposed controls showed that precipitins against extracts of bagasse could be demonstrated just as frequently in the unaffected and the non-exposed as in the affected. However, there was a general tendency for the precipitin levels of patients with bagassosis to fall slightly with increasing ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Gastroenterology
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0016-5085
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-5085(78)93808-8