conclusions elevation of liver enzymes appears in 29 % obese children in a tertiary care centre. absolute alanine aminotransferase levels are significantly higher in obese than in overweight children. even obese children with normal liver enzymes show signs of fatty liver disease as demonstrated by liver enzymes at the upper limit of normal. results elevated alanine aminotransferase was observe...

background: recent studies demonstrated that resveratrol has many therapeutic effects on liver disorders. resveratrol significantly increased survival after liver transplantation, decreased fat deposition, necrosis, and apoptosis which induced by ischemia in wistar rats. it provided liver protection against chemical, cholestatic, and alcohol injury. resveratrol can improve glucose metabolism an...

however, history of liver transplantation has started in 1963, but after discovery of anti-rejection drugs such as cyclosporine in 1980s, this method has experienced. from 1984 more than 3000 patients underwent surgery and just 1680 patients in 66 liver transplantation centers have operated in 1988. every patient suffers from severe liver diseases and is in terminal stage of this disease, must ...

conclusions organ transplantation and treatment of transplanted patients with immunosuppressive drugs would prone them to various unusual infections. one of these is unusual primary involvement of liver by tuberculosis which has been extremely rare in the previous reports. introduction recipients of liver transplantation are prone to different types of infections such as tuberculosis (tb). case...

background liver transplantation (lt) is the only treatment option for patients with advanced liver disease. currently, liver donation to these patients, considering priorities, is based on the model for end-stage liver disease (meld). meld score is a tool for predicting the risk of mortality in patients with advanced liver disease. however, few studies have so far been conducted in iran on the...

conclusions the apri had the highest sensitivity and specificity (64% and 71%, respectively) for prediction of the presence of liver disease. we suggest that apri may be applicable for the detection of a severe liver disease. objectives in this study, we evaluated and compared several available indices of the severity of liver diseases in patients with hepatitis. patients and methods exclusion ...

conclusions the pattern of longitudinally increased liver stiffness measurements efficiently supported clinical decisions for individualized management strategies. repeated transient elastography in real-life clinical practice appears to have a practical role in monitoring liver transplanted patients. background liver transplanted patients need close surveillance for early signs of graft diseas...

non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (nash) is a disease of unknown origin characterized histologically by alcoholic-like liver injury in the absence in the absence of significant alcohol intake. this study was conducted to assess the clinical and pathological features of nash patients in iran. patients with elevated liver transaminases, negative serologic markers of viral or autoimmune hepatitis and ...

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...