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Alcohol-related liver disease: Clinical practice guidelines by the Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver (ALEH)
(Elsevier Espana S.L., 2019)
Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) is a major cause of advanced chronic liver disease in Latin-America, although data on prevalence is limited. Public health policies aimed at reducing the alarming prevalence of alcohol ...
Hepatitis crónica por virus C: factores asociados a la severidad del daño histológico
(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2005)
Is autoimmune hepatitis a frequent finding among HCV patients with intense interface hepatitis?
(W J G Press, 2010-08-07)
AIM: To evaluate the overlap of autoimmune hepatitis in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients with intense interface hepatitis.METHODS: Among 1759 patients with hepatitis C submitted to liver biopsy, 92 (5.2%) presented ...
Response to treatment with interferon-alpha and ribavirin in patients with chronic Hepatitis C virus genotypes 2 and 3 depends on the degree of hepatic fibrosis
(Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, 2006-04-01)
The combined therapy with interferon alfa plus ribavirin (INF+RBV) is considered the most appropriate treatment for patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotypes 2 and 3 in Brazil. However, wide variations in the rates ...
HCV virological response during treatment of chronic hepatitis C is associated with liver histological Improvement in patients with HCV/HIV co-infection
(Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, 2008)
Liver histological improvement after treatment for chronic hepatitis C in patients co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) has been described. Paired liver biopsies in twenty six HCV/HIV co-infected patients ...
Beneficial effects of mineralocorticoid receptor blockade in experimental non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
(2015)
BackgroundTherapeutic options to treat Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are limited. Mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) activation could play a role in hepatic fibrogenesis and its modulation could be beneficial for NASH. ...
Serum laminin, type IV collagen and hyaluronan as fibrosis markers in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
(Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica, 2005-05-01)
Hepatic fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with progression of the disease. In the present study, we analyzed the discriminative ability of serum laminin, type IV collagen and hyaluronan ...
Grading and staging chronic hepatitis C and its relation to genotypes and epidemiological factors in brazilian blood donors
(Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, 2005-04-01)
Progression of chronic hepatitis C is known to be associated with some factors, but influence of HCV genotypes is still controversial. Association between HCV genotypes and other risk factors was examined to determine which ...