Spectral CT: Preliminary Studies in the Liver Cirrhosis

Spectral CT: Preliminary Studies in the Liver Cirrhosis

OBJECTIVE To investigate the value of spectral CT imaging in the diagnosis and classification of liver cirrhosis during the arterial phase (AP) and portal venous phase (PVP). MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-eight patients with liver cirrhosis (Child-Pugh class A/B/C: n = 10/14/14), and 43 patients with healthy livers, participated in this study. The researchers used abdominal spectral CT imaging...

Endocrine-Manifestations of Cirrhosis and Liver Disease

The liver is involved in the synthesis and metabolism of many kinds of hormones, various abnormalities hormone levels are found in advanced liver disease. For example the liver is, extremely sensitive to changes in insulin or glucagon levels. The liver is the primary organ of iron storage is frequently involved, diabetes is common in patients with iron overload and may be seen in cirrhosis. Chr...

Studies on atrophic liver cirrhosis on the basis of classification.

There are a large variety of cause of liver cirrhosis and numerous classifications , as related to the present disease, have been adopted in foreign countries , and among them a purely morphological, an etiological and a functional classification of liver cirrhosis are to be mentioned. In the Pan American Congress cf Gastroenterology held at Havana in 1956, the morphological classification conc...

Electrolyte studies on patients with cirrhosis of the liver.

Comparative Studies of Liver Function Tests in Portal Cirrhosis