The fate of fatty liver disease: of bile and fatty acids

Hospital performance reports based on severity adjusted mortality rates in patients with cirrhosis depend on the method of risk adjustment

Background. Hospital outcome report cards are used to judge provider performance, including for liver transplantation. We aimed to determine the impact of the choice of risk adjustment method on hospital rankings based...

Serum homocysteine levels in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Background and rational for the study. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is regarded as the hepatic component of insulin resistance (IR) syndrome, but data on serum homocysteine (HCY) are limited. The aim of the s...

Spontaneous rupture of a giant non parasitic hepatic cyst presenting as an acute surgical abdomen

Spontaneous rupture of a non parasitic hepatic cyst is an extremely rare occurrence. A 50 -year- old male, was admitted with typical clinical manifestations of acute surgical abdomen. At exploratory laparotomy, a giant r...

Improvement of hepatic fibrosis by leukotriene inhibition in cholestatic rats

Chronic liver disease is characterized by inflammation and fibrosis. Angiogenesis which leading to new vasculature may have prognostic value in disease progression. This study examined the implication of 5-lipoxygenase p...