Colorectal cancer surveillance in primary sclerosing cholangitis and inflammatory bowel disease

Band ligation vs. N-Butyl-2-cyanoacrylate injection in acute gastric variceal bleeding: a prospective follow-up study

Background. Treatment of gastric varices (GV) implies a number of several difficulties and sometimes entails complications. The best endoscopic success rate was attributed until now to the use of tissue adhesives(N-Butyl...

First successful treatment of post-liver transplant hepatitis C fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis with boceprevir, peginterferon and ribavirin in a pre-transplant null responder

Fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis (FCH) is a less common but well-recognized severe complication of recurrent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection post-liver transplant. This condition is fatal without successful treatment an...

Long term nucleotide and nucleoside analogs treatment in chronic hepatitis B HBeAg negative genotype D patients and risk for hepatocellular carcinoma

Background and rationale of the study. Effect of Long-term nucleoside/nucleotide (NUC) on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) incidence in a population of HBeAg-negative genotype D patients has not been adequately studied in...

Bile acids content in brain of common duct ligated rats

Introduction. Cholestasis leads to liver cell death, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and eventually liver failure. Bile duct ligated rats constitute an interesting model to study the mechanism of cholestasis, and its action on seve...