Multibacterial Sepsis in an Alcohol Abuser with Hepatic Cirrhosis.

Evaluation of the role of TLR4 in endotoxin-induced hepatic encephalopathy in rats with biliary cirrhosis

Background: Hepatic encephalopathy is defined as a neuropsychiatric brain dysfunction in acute or chronic liver failure. Infection and inflammation have crucial role in its pathophysiology. The purpose of our study was to demonstrate the relationship between toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) expression and the encephalopathy induced with endotoxin in biliary cirrhotic rats. Methods: The present stud...

Infective hepatitis with hepatic cirrhosis.

THE patient was a thirty-four-year-old British soldier who had qeen a prisoner of war in German hands from 1940 until he was liberated in 1945. He was on the "thousand-mile forced march" from Poland to Germany in the face of the aqvancing Russian Army. While in captivity he had little food to eat and his meals were very small. On return to the U.K. he found that he coul(l never eat more than ve...

Hepatic Cirrhosis

TIhC 0CCLPTen1CC inI h1o0Spitall Within a conmparatively shiort space of time of touIr unuISula.l examllples of cirrhosis of tihe li\-er in-younil-chil(lren has le(d us to Iake this comlnlLI1liunictionl. Disorders of tihe liver in chil(lhoo(l ha\ve iii recent N'ears not attracted imiuchi attentioni in tihis country, and we feel that tlhe mere ventilation of the suLb)ject, thIough,0LI we mXVn ha...

[Hepatic cirrhosis].

Hepatic Cirrhosis