Whole body potassium measurements were performed on 55 cirrhotic patients in different stages of the disease. They included 34 with alcoholic cirrhosis, 10 with cryptogenic cirrhosis, eight with chronic active hepatitis, and three with haemochromatosis. Serial measurements were carried out in 21 patients. The findings of this study indicate that: (1) the aetiology of the cirrhosis is important ...

BACKGROUND The prescribing of medicines to patients with abnormal liver function tests (LFTs) requires careful consideration. Every effort must be made to establish the cause of the abnormal liver function. Whether the patient has cirrhosis also needs to be determined, as this will have broad reaching implications for prescribing. OBJECTIVE Two aspects of prescribing medications to patients w...

Cirrhosis is among the leading causes of death worldwide, making up 3.5% global deaths. It characterized by replacement liver parenchyma with fibrotic tissue and progressively leads to complete failure organ. classified into 2 types – compensated decompensated based on complications such as esophageal varices, hepatic encephalopathy, asterixis, ascites. The main contributors disease include inf...

А im: to conduct a comparative analysis of serum albumin's structural and functional properties in decompensated cirrhotic patients by means spin prob EPR spectroscopy. Materials methods. The main study group included 70 with liver cirrhosis ascites. control consisted 12 healthy volunteers, comparable gender age, without diseases. To assess the ability, albumin was analyzed Results. Albumin lev...

Background. The aim of this population-based study was to describe characteristics of patients with liver cirrhosis undergoing cholecystectomy and evaluate the risk for perioperative and postoperative complications during the 30-day postoperative period. Method. All laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy procedures registered between 2006 and 2011 in the Swedish Registry for Gallstone Surgery an...

Analgesics, known to be hepatotoxic drugs, are frequently prescribed to patients with liver cirrhosis who are prone to drug-induced liver injury. No guidelines are available regarding the prescription of analgesics in these patients. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the prescription pattern of most frequently used analgesics in patients with cirrhosis. We assessed the prescription pattern of ace...

Chronic Budd-Chiari syndrome can present with cirrhosis and signs and symptoms similar to those of other chronic liver diseases. We present a case of Budd-Chiari syndrome discovered during attempted transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting in a patient with decompensated cirrhosis believed to be secondary to hepatitis C. Although the patient had hepatocellular carcinoma, the Budd-Chiari...

OBJECTIVE Few studies have evaluated health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in mainland China. We aimed at characterizing the impact of CHB on HRQoL in mainland Chinese and finding out factors associated with HRQoL. METHODS 460 CHB patients (323 with CHB only, 54 with compensated cirrhosis and 83 with decompensated cirrhosis) and 460 pair-matched hea...