ALLMedicine™ Alcoholic Hepatitis Center

Oct 19th, 2020 - Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a serious clinical syndrome often associated with muscle wasting. Myostatin, a member of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily, has been studied in diseases with muscle wasting; however, the role of myostatin in ...

Oct 18th, 2020 - To describe the computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of severe acute alcoholic hepatitis (SAAH) and estimate the capabilities of CT and MRI in differentiating SAAH from alcoholic cirrhosis and non-alcoholic steato...

Oct 17th, 2020 - Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is the dramatic acute presentation of alcoholic liver disease, with a 28-day mortality of 15% in severe cases. Research into AH has been hampered by the lack of effective and reproducible murine models that can be operated...

Oct 15th, 2020 - Severe alcoholic hepatitis (SAH) remains a disease with high mortality. Steroid is the main stay and has been shown to give modest 28-day survival benefit in carefully selected patients, but no 90-day survival benefit. Since non-responders have hi...

Oct 15th, 2020 - Two major causes of steatohepatitis are alcohol and metabolic syndrome. Although the underlying causes of alcoholrelated liver disease (ALD) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) differ, there are certain...

Jun 30th, 2018 - The harmful use of alcohol has been estimated to cause approximately 3. 3?million deaths every year, corresponding to nearly 6% of all deaths globally.

Jan 17th, 2018 - Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) comprises a clinical-histologic spectrum including fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis (AH), and cirrhosis with its complications. Most patients are diagnosed at advanced stages and data on the prevalence and profile of ...

Apr 16th, 2017 - The purpose of this clinical practice update is to review diagnostic criteria for severe acute alcoholic hepatitis and to determine the current best practices for this life-threatening condition. The best practices in this review are based on clin...

Feb 27th, 2016 - Standard Definitions and Common Data Elements for Clinical Trials in Patients With Alcoholic Hepatitis: Recommendation From the NIAAA Alcoholic Hepatitis Consortia.|2016|Crabb DW,Bataller R,Chalasani NP,Kamath PS,Lucey M,|classification,standards,...

Oct 30th, 2014 - Alcoholic liver disease encompasses a broad spectrum of diseases ranging from steatosis steatohepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis to hepatocellular carcinoma. Forty-four per cent of all deaths from cirrhosis are attributed to alcohol. Alcoholic liv...

Oct 19th, 2020 - Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a serious clinical syndrome often associated with muscle wasting. Myostatin, a member of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily, has been studied in diseases with muscle wasting; however, the role of myostatin in ...

Oct 18th, 2020 - To describe the computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of severe acute alcoholic hepatitis (SAAH) and estimate the capabilities of CT and MRI in differentiating SAAH from alcoholic cirrhosis and non-alcoholic steato...

Oct 17th, 2020 - Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is the dramatic acute presentation of alcoholic liver disease, with a 28-day mortality of 15% in severe cases. Research into AH has been hampered by the lack of effective and reproducible murine models that can be operated...

Oct 15th, 2020 - Severe alcoholic hepatitis (SAH) remains a disease with high mortality. Steroid is the main stay and has been shown to give modest 28-day survival benefit in carefully selected patients, but no 90-day survival benefit. Since non-responders have hi...

Oct 15th, 2020 - Two major causes of steatohepatitis are alcohol and metabolic syndrome. Although the underlying causes of alcoholrelated liver disease (ALD) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) differ, there are certain...

Jan 29th, 2020 - Serum keratin 18, an epithelial protein released from dying hepatocytes, identifies patients with severe acute alcoholic hepatitis (AAH) at high risk for death, according to an investigation of 173 subjects. Standard biomarker scores – Model for E.

Nov 8th, 2019 - BOSTON – Treatment with novel agent DUR-928 may be able to reduce mortality rates among patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis, investigators predicted. In an open-label, phase IIa trial, 89% of patients with alcoholic hepatitis responded to tre.

Jan 22nd, 2019 - In recent years, the proportion of patients undergoing liver transplantation for alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) has doubled, suggesting a major shift in attitudes related to transplant indication, according to an analysis of registry data.

Oct 1st, 2018 - In the article by Agganis B, Lee D, Sepe T ( Liver enzymes: No trivial elevations, even if asymptomatic. Cleve Clin J Med 2018; 85(8):612–617, doi:10.

Jul 15th, 2018 - Alcoholism: A Global Disorder Consumption of alcohol-containing (ethanol) beverages is a worldwide cause of preventable alcoholic liver disease[1] and can add to the progression of other liver diseases, such as hepatitis C virus infection.[2] Alco...