Ongoing alcohol consumptions counteracts the benefits of sustained virological response in patients with well compensated hepatitis C cirrhosis: an observational study

Multiple venous and arterial thromboses of the gallbladder causing acute cholecystitis. A previously undescribed complication of essential thrombocythemia

Well established complications of essential thrombocythemia are multiple thrombohemorrhagic phenomena in various abdominal organs. We describe the case of a 22 year old man with essential thrombocythemia and thrombosis o...

IGF-I and IGFBP-3 serum levels in patients hospitalized for complications of liver cirrhosis

[b]Background[/b]. IGF-I and IGFBP-3 are part of IGF system and, due to their predominantly hepatic synthesis, they seem to correlate with hepatic dysfunction intensity. Aims. To investigate the significance of IGF-I and...

Cell-based therapy to reverse advanced alcoholic liver fibrosis

Comparison of two diagnostic algorithms for the identification of patients with HCV viremia using a new HCV Antigen test

Background. Patients exposed to hepatitis C virus (HCV) may develop chronic infection with viremia. The diagnosis of this condition requires the use of several laboratory tests in algorithms tailored to the population an...