Influence of ApoE and FABP2 polymorphisms and environmental factors in the susceptibility to gallstone disease

Background. Gallstone disease (GSD) is a common chronic disease in the Western hemisphere, yet environmental and genetic factors may be responsible for the variations in the prevalence of GSD among populations. Aim. To a...

Drug-induced liver injury in hospitalized HIV patients: high incidence and association with drugs for tuberculosis

Background. The evaluation of liver disease in HIV patients is cumbersome because may result from a number of different causes. The aim of this retrospective study was to estimate the incidence of severe drug induced liv...

Early warning of liver disease in diabetics

Determination of ammonia concentrations in cirrhosis patients-still confusing after all these years?

By the end of the nineteenth century, ammonia had been identified as the main factor responsible for hepatic encephalopathy syndrome. Ammonia is one of the principal products of hepatic metabolism and high concentrations...

Vitamin D deficiency and vitamin D therapy in chronic hepatitis C

[b]Background[/b]. Vitamin D has immunomodulatory properties, exerts an anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) effect in vitro and improves response to interferon-based therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). Low serum...