Elderly patients with diabetes, hypertension and obesity are at risk of severe course the novel coronavirus infection COVID-19. Patients chronic liver disease also high death due to SARS-CoV-2. Case report . Patient D., 65 years old, since 2010, was observed for Child-Pugh class B-C cirrhosis mixed etiology (alimentary metabolic), type 2 diabetes. He hospitalized on May 17, 2020 shortness breat...

INTRODUCTION Liver cirrhosis (LC) is a relatively frequent cause of death in the United States accounting for more than 27,000 deaths per year as of 2002 (1). Medical complications are frequent in patients with LC and more so when the liver disease becomes decompensated (2). LC is considered decompensated when patients develop at least one complication of the disease (hepatic encephalopathy, ga...

Liver transplantation was approved for treatment of decompensated cirrhosis in the United States in 1983. Hepatitis B and hepatitis C viruses are the leading causes of liver transplantation for viral hepatitis and hepatitis B is also an important cause of liver transplantation for called acute liver failure) due to either acute hepatitis B or an acute exacerbation of chronic hepatitis B. Howeve...

BACKGROUND The treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection has been revolutionized by the advent of direct-acting antiviral agents. However, evidence of its effects on patients with acute hepatitis C (AHC) virus infection is limited. CASE SUMMARY We report the case of a patient with decompensated cirrhosis induced by autoimmune liver disease, whose condition rapidly deteriorated followin...

The modern paradigm considers cirrhosis as a dynamic and potentially reversible disease. It consists of two different entities, compensated and decompensated cirrhosis, each with a distinct prognosis and different predictors of survival. The development of portal hypertension is a hallmark in the history of cirrhosis, and its progression parallels that of the disease. In consequence, portal pre...

A total of 512 people from a defined population in west Birmingham served by a district general hospital were found to have cirrhosis in the period 1959-76. The annual incidence rose from 5.6 per 100 000 to a peak of 15.3 per 100 000 in 1974. This was due to an increase in the incidence of alcoholic cirrhosis, which in the last six years accounted for two-thirds of cases. The proportion of pati...

BACKGROUND Although there are many studies of the predictors of death in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), most combine patients with and without cirrhosis and many combine those with compensated and decompensated cirrhosis. OBJECTIVE To perform a systematic review of the literature evaluating the predictors of death in patients with cirrhosis and HCC and to evaluate whether the predictors diff...

Background Hepatitis B viral represents a pathology with a severe impact on public health. Worldwide, approximately 350 million individuals are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV is the leading cause of cirrhosis globally. Once chronic infection is established, approximately 30% of the patients will develop cirrhosis, and approximately one-quarter of patients with cirrhosis ...