Clinical characteristics of liver failure from a systemic cause: A report from an advanced critical care center

Background/Purpose. In Japan, acute liver failure (ALF) has generally been described using the diagnostic term, “fulminant hepatitis”, because of the fact that most cases of ALF has been thought to occur in association...

Acute hepatitis C treatment

There are no well established treatment guidelines about acute hepatitis C (AHC), leaving physicians to make several challenging decisions, such whether to treat, when to treat and what treatment regimens to use. This ar...

Does the persistently normal aminotransferase levels in hepatitis C still have relevance?

Portopulmonary hypertension: state of the art

Portopulmonary hypertension is an uncommon but treatable pulmonary vascular consequence of portal hypertension, which can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. Portopulmonary hypertension results from excessive pu...

Impact of sustained virologic response on quality of life in chronic HVC carriers

[b]Introduction[/b]. It is known that patients with chronic hepatitis C have a lower health-related quality of life (HRQOL) than the general population and evidence suggests that the hepatitis C virus (HCV) could exert d...