ASSESSMENT OF LIVER FUXCTION IN PATIENTS with hepatic disease by means of routine liver function tests is unreliable. Furthermore, these tests do not provide quantitative information that would allow assessment of the progress of the liver disorder after operations such as portacaval shunt (PCS) performed for bleeding oesophageal varices. In recent years attempts have been made to provide this ...

Background: Liver dysfunction during on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is a rare complication but is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The ability to identify high-risk patients may be helpful in planning appropriate management strategies. We aimed to evaluate the factors influencing liver function tests during on-pump CABG.Methods: In 146 patients scheduled...

A 53-year-old man is seen in clinic 4 months after receiving an orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) for two small (<3 cm in diameter) hepatomas which were discovered incidentally. The patient had a history of heavy alcohol use in his twenties and thirties, but has not used alcohol for over 10 years. Liver histology on the resected organ revealed early micronodular cirrhosis with the two tumor nod...

A statistical comparison of different BSP tests was carried out in normal subjects and in patients with various degrees of chronic liver damage. Only the logarithm of the BSP retention correlated linearly with the physiologically more meaningful determination of the maximal excretory capacity of the liver (BSP Tm, Wheele's method). A double logarithmic transformation was required to correlate t...

The changes in energy charge of the remnant liver and ketone-body ratio (acetoacetate/3hydroxybutyrate) of arterial blood were examined in hepatectomized rabbits in relation to the blood energy fuels and the standard liver function tests. It is suggested that (a) the decrease in energy charge is the basis of the decreased hepatic functional reserve, (b) the chang巴 inenergy charge is accurately ...

background non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is a common liver disease in the western population and expanding disease in the world. pathological changes in fatty liver are like alcohol liver damage, which can lead to end-stage liver disease. the prevalence of nafld in obese or overweight people is higher than general population, and it seems that people with high body mass index (bmi) ...