Zinc sulfate therapy in alcoholic cirrhosis

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...

Zinc deficiency in cirrhosis.

adenosine deaminase estimation in the diagnosis of tuberculous ascites. Reply SIR,-We acknowledge the pertinent points raised by Lingenfelser and Marks. When our paper was submitted we thought that the role of ascitic adenosine deaminase in the diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis'2 needed further investigation. Subsequent evaluations of ascitic adenosine deaminase in tuberculous peri-tonitis3'...

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

Zinc Sulfate

Zinc sulfate is an inorganic compound: the sulfate salt of zinc and a good source of zinc ions. The molecular 40 formula for zinc sulfate is ZnSO4. A graphic representation of the structure of zinc sulfate is shown in figure 1 41 (Pubchem, 2014). Zinc sulfate appears geologically as a white crumbly salt efflorescence known as “goslarite.” 42 Goslarite, the heptahydrate of zinc sulfate was first...

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...