The liver is a key organ that responsible for the metabolism of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates absorption storage micronutrients. Unfortunately, prevalence chronic diseases at various stages advancement in world population significant. Due to physiological function liver, its dysfunction can lead malnutrition sarcopenia, patient’s nutritional status an important prognostic factor. This revie...

introduction: chronic liver diseases consist of wide spectrum disorders that may be complicated by cirrhosis and therefore need to transplantation. the pediatric end-stage liver disease (peld) score and model of end-stage liver disease (meld) score has been used as predictors of mortality chronic liver diseases listed for liver transplantation. the aim of this study is evaluation of relation be...

the purpose of this study was to determine a simple and sensitive test for clinical diagnosis of various hepatic diseases. therefore y-glutamyltranspeptidase (y** gt), aspartate aminotransferase (asat), alanine aminotr¬ansferase (alat) and alkaline phosphatase (alp) levels were measured in 29 healthy adults and 88 sera with various liver diseases. table i represents the results, according to wh...

Liver diseases can be diagnosed through various medical imaging schemes such as CT scans, ultrasounds, and MRIs [2]. Dynamic contrast- enhanced MRI provides the most comprehensive information for differential diagnosis of liver tumors [3].

background: the general pattern of epidemiologic transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases is also observed for gastrointestinal and liver diseases (gild), which constitute a heterogeneous array of causes of death and disability. we aimed to describe the trend of gild in iran based on the global burden of disease (gbd2010) study from 1990 to 2010. methods: the trend of number of...