Complex treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: experience of the use of hepatoprotectors
Journal Title: Сучасна гастроентерологія - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
Objective — to evaluate the complex therapy effects at the levels of cytokeratin (CK)-18, fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-21 and metabolic parameters of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients. Materials and methods. examinations involved 90 patients with NAFLD, aged 30 to 60 years (the men age (48.61 ± 4.1) years). The control group consisted of 20 practically healthy volunteers. Gender difference between groups wasn’t significant. Levels of SC-18 and FGF-21 with the use immune enzyme method with ELISA kits were performed at baseline and 1 months after the beginning of treatment with combination of ursodeoxycholic acid and ademetionine, Results. Before the treatment, NAFLD patients demonstrated the increased liver enzymatic activity (р ≤ 0.05); lipid profile indices (p ≤ 0.05); the increased levels of insulin and HOMAIR (p = 0.002), and plasma levels of cytokines CK-18 and FGF-21 (p ≤ 0.05). After 1 months of treatment, the following positive effects were revealed: reduction of ALT and AST levels (p ≤ 0.05), decrease of glucose levels by 10.5 %, HOMA index by 41 % (p = 0.001), level of total cholesterol decreased from 5.6 to 4.89 mmol/L, triglycerides’ levels from 1.7 to 1.24 mmol/L (p = 0.001). Conclusions. The combined therapy of ademetionine and ursodeoxycholic acid in patients with NAFLD promoted the reduction of the transaminases’, glucose levels and HOMAindex, resulted in the eliminating of hyperlipidemia and hypertriglyceridemia, as well as reducing of apoptotic processes in the liver.
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O. Ya. Babak, K. A. Lapshyna, А. M. Chernyak
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