Liver patients with cirrhosis should know that making positive changes in their diet doesn’t have to be overwhelming or ...

As noted above, stellate cell activation is the central event in hepatic fibrosis. Activation consists of 2 major phases: (1) initiation (also called apreinflammatory stage) and (2) perpetuation ...

Cystic lesions in the liver are common and usually benign in patients where there are no hepatic malignant risk factors, no history of malignancy, no exposure to hydatids and no cirrhosis.

Advanced liver cirrhosis can push levels of ammonia in the blood to hazardous levels, but skipping meat at mealtime can help reverse that, new research shows.

Just one meal without meat can lower levels of harmful ammonia in people with advanced liver disease, researchers from ...

What is hepatic arterial therapy? Let's say this liver has 3 metastases in it. You surgically those 3 and then exactly what would you do? Nancy Kemeny, MD Well then we put this pump, which is a ...

During advanced liver disease cirrhosis, skipping meat at mealtime can help reverse dangerous blood ammonia levels. A gastroenterologist at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and the study ...

Delcath Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTH) (the "Company" or "Delcath"), an interventional oncology company focused on the treatment of primary and metastatic cancers of the liver, announces that the ...

The preliminary results of a study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) at the Richmond Veterans Affairs ...

High levels of ammonia in the blood are linked to cirrhosis and a type of cognitive decline called hepatic encephalopathy.

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Jaundice (also known as icterus) is a condition that causes the skin and sclera (the white part of your eyes) to turn yellow. This condition occurs when your ...

Reversible decerebrate and decorticate postures ordinarily indicate advanced and irreversible disease of the brain, but in three patients these postures were a presenting feature of hepatic coma ...