Pregnancy and vascular liver diseases

Liver function and liver diseases during pregnancy.

Liver diseases during pregnancy comprise an important area of common interest for both perinatologists and internists. On the basis of my own practical experiences and from an extensive review of the literature which by necessity includes the presentation of at times contrasting views of unsatisfactorily resolved Problems, I am attempting to give a review of the current knowledge. In liver dise...

Pregnancy-related liver diseases.

Liver diseases related to pregnancy may be associated with preeclampsia (liver dysfunction related to preeclampsia; hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets with or without preeclampsia [HELLP syndrome]; and acute fatty liver of pregnancy) or may not involve preeclampsia (hyperemesis gravidarum and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy). Liver diseases associated with pregnancy have...

Vascular Aging and Diseases: Molecular Mechanisms and Influences

Vascular aging plays an important role in the mortality of the elderly, but vascular aging can be dependent on other factors such as diseases. Various diseases such as Alzheimer, diabetes, thalassemia, and other diseases affect the mechanisms of vascular aging. It will harm the recovery process of these patients. There are methods for measuring vascular aging such as instrumental measurements a...

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy and the microvesicular fat diseases.

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Vascular diseases of the liver.

Vascular disorders of the liver, although affecting less than 5/10,000 patients, collectively account for a number of rare conditions that represent an important health problem worldwide in the field of liver diseases. A common characteristic of most of these disorders is that they can cause non-cirrhotic portal hypertension with an ensuing high morbidity and mortality. In addition, special rel...