BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Assessing health-related quality of life is an important aspect of clinical practice. Thus, the present study attempts to assess the health-related quality of life of patients with chronic liver disease. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 133 chronic liver disease patients, using three instruments: a demographic questionnaire, the Chronic Liver Disease...

Liver cirrhosis is an emerging enigma of today's world. Even youth are not spared from this evil disease. Cirrhosis the resultant or last stage change in structural unit liver and it's surrounding which eventually disrupt harmonious processings functions. In article accustomed idea regarding chronicity disease mentioned along with factual concept homoeopathy all three pillar aspects organon, re...

Background and aims Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is remarkably increasing in developing countries like India, in parallel with the increasing incidence of obesity. Lifestyle modification is a recommended treatment for NAFLD. In most of the previous studies, improvement after lifestyle modification was assessed by liver fibrosis through liver biopsy, but we cannot do a serial liver ...

BACKGROUND Chronic hepatitis C virus infection associated with contaminated anti-D immunoglobulin has become an issue of recent concern. The clinical course of chronic hepatitis C infection is unpredictable and histological assessment is felt to be the most reliable means of assessing disease status. Semiquantitative scoring systems have been devised, which assess degree of necroinflammatory di...

Twenty-three children with Alagille's syndrome and end-stage liver disease underwent liver transplantation with cyclosporine and low-dose steroid immunosuppression. Two to 9 years (mean, 4.4 years) after surgery, 13 (57%) of the children were still alive, with normal liver function. Three of the fatalities were due to cardiovascular failure secondary to associated cardiopulmonary disease. Morta...

The course ‘Operating System Internals’ (OSI) usually focuses on teaching the concepts and issues surrounding the design of an OS in general. Students are advised to learn by example and through experiments, which are fundamental for the real understanding of operating system. Although controlled experiments with a commercial OS is one of basic approaches in organizing the practical work of stu...

conclusions it seems that surrogate liver function tests and adipocytokine levels were correlated with the histologic findings of the liver. objectives the aim of the study was to evaluate the correlation between serum adipocytokines and the histologic findings of the liver in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld). patients and methods this case-control study was performed on ...

background there are several studies in the literature investigating factors which can induce non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) in different populations. however, the existing literature lacks powerful studies addressing the factors which may predict the severity of nafld. objectives in the current study, we aimed to evaluate factors independently associated with liver echogenicity in a...