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...

[Original]Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary neoplasm of liver, which arises from parenchymal cells liver.1 Hepatocellular usually develops in setting chronic background liver disease, such as cirrhosis or hepatitis B C infection. The diagnosis HCC relies heavily on diagnostic imaging, and high sensitivity specificity Liver Imaging Reporting Data System (LI-RADS) classifi...

familialmediterranean fever (fmf) is a hereditary syndrome characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and serositis. liver involvement in fmf has been reported in association with amyloidosis or rarely with vasculitis.in this report, a 32 year-old man with recurrent attacks of fever, abdominal pain and arthralgia is described who had moderate increase in liver transaminases only during disease...

background : the liver which is a vascular organ can easily be lacerated or crushed, depending on the severity of trauma. case report: a 55 year-old lady who fell down was taken to a hospital within one hour and died two hours post-trauma. an autopsy revealed rupture a large sub capsular vascular lesion situated on the right lobe of liver with hemoperitoneum. there was a deep contusion on the a...

liver fibrosis is a potentially reversible response to hepatic insults, triggered by different chronic diseases most importantly viral hepatitis, alcoholic, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. in the course of the chronic liver disease, hepatic fibrogenesis may develop, which is attributed to various types of cells, molecules, and pathways. activated hepatic stellate cell (hsc), the primary ...