Noninvasive markers of liver fibrosis in Latin America and Mexico

Effects of Japanese herbal medicine inchin-ko-to on endotoxin-induced cholestasis in the rat

Background/Objective. Inchin-ko-to (ICKT) is an herbal medicine used in Japan to treat jaundice and liver fibrosis.We investigated the effect of oral ICKT supplementation on endotoxin-induced cholestasis in the rat. Mate...

Acute hepatitis C treatment

There are no well established treatment guidelines about acute hepatitis C (AHC), leaving physicians to make several challenging decisions, such whether to treat, when to treat and what treatment regimens to use. This ar...

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

Predicting the prognosis in acute liver failure: results from a retrospective pilot study using the LiMAx test

Background. Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition and liver transplantation (LTX) remains frequently the only effective therapy. Nevertheless, some patients recover without LTX bu...