background and aims: recently, a novel dna virus was isolated from the serum of a patient with post-transfusion non a-g hepatitis and named tt virus. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence tt virus among cirrhotic patients due to hepatitis b & c in infection ahwaz. methods: the prevalence of ttv infection was studied in 41 patients with liver cirrhosis. ttv dna was detected by se...

background: hepatitis e virus is an enterically transmitted virus that is endemic in south asia and this virus is one of the most important cause of acute hepatitis in this region. although hepatitis e virus (hev) is not a leading cause for chronic hepatitis, the role of hev in exacerbation of chronic liver disease is certain. materials and methods: 100 cirrhotic cases (50 hepatitis b and 50 he...

Positron emission tomography (PET) using the radiopharmaceutical tracer fluorine-18 fluorocholine (FCh) can elucidate tumors based on differences in choline phospholipid metabolism between tumor and surrounding tissue. The feasibility of detecting hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using FCh PET has been shown despite constitutively high parenchymal choline metabolism in the liver. Since HCC freque...

background: cirrhotic patients are at a greater risk of different kinds of arrhythmias. despite the well-known arrhythmogenic effects of halothane, developing countries continue to use halothane due to its low cost. this study was designed to investigate the pathophysiology of halothane untoward effects on heart rhythm moreover was aimed to explore the effect of halothane anesthesia on the thre...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasingly diagnosed worldwide and is the most common cause of abnormal liver function tests and chronic liver disease in clinical practice. Although most patients with simple steatosis will have stable disease, 10–15 % with histologically proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) will progress to cirrhosis and its complications such as liver fai...

 Cirrhosis has been related with hyperdynamic circulation, manifesting as increased cardiac output and decreased systemic vascular resistance. In the present study we examined the cirrhosis outcome on apoptosis of rat hearts. We also tried to explore the role of nitric oxide (NO) and oxidative stress in the probable changed apoptosis of cirrhotic hearts. Twenty eight days after ligation of bile...

INTRODUCTION Variceal haemorrhage is a potentially life-threatening complication in cirrhotic patients. Identification of patients at high risk for bleeding is particularly important. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical usefulness of per-rectal portal scintigraphy (PPS) in the evaluation of the severity of portal hypertension in cirrhotic patients, in terms of correlation betwee...

Glutamine synthetase and glutaminase activities in human cirrhotic liver tissues and hepatocellular carcinomas were determined for comparison with normal liver tissues. In hepatocellular carcinoma, glutamine synthetase activity was approximately one-third of that in normal liver, whereas no detectable change in the enzyme activity was observed in cirrhotic liver. Phosphate-dependent and phospha...

BACKGROUND & AIMS To evaluate the risk of depressive disorders among non-alcoholic patients by using the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD). METHODS We conducted a retrospective study of a matched cohort of 52 725 participants (10 545 non-alcoholic cirrhotic patients and 42 180 control patients) who were selected from the NHIRD. Patients were observed for a maximum of ...

Intrahepatic nitric oxide (NO) production is decreased in cirrhotic livers. Our objective was to identify, in cirrhotic rat livers, intrahepatic vascular segments where the deficit of NO facilitates the effect of vasoconstrictors. By using a modified rat liver perfusion system with measurement of both the perfusion and sinusoidal (wedged hepatic vein) pressures, we studied the effect of the NO ...