Physical Activity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Assessing risk factors of acute kidney injury after liver transplantation

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...

Course of a HBsAg positive liver transplantation in a hepatitis B and D virus coinfected recipient

The increasing demand for transplantation has led to consideration of liver grafts from donors exposed to hepatitis B virus (HBV). Six transplantations of liver grafts from hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive do...

Genetic susceptibility to hepatoxicity due to bosentan treatment in pulmonary hypertension

Background. Hepatotoxicity is a major side effect of treatment with bosentan in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). Bosentan is metabolized by the cytochrome CYP2C9 and inhibits the bile salt export pump, which is...