ALLMedicine™ Liver Diseases Center

Jan 26th, 2023 - Advanced liver diseases (ALD) can affect immune function and compromise host defense against infections. In this study, we examined the phenotypic and functional alterations in circulating monocyte and dendritic cells (DCs) in children with ALD un...

Jan 17th, 2023 - Gene therapy is poised to revolutionize modern medicine, with seemingly unlimited potential for treating and curing genetic disorders. For otherwise incurable indications, including most inherited metabolic liver disorders, gene therapy provides a...

Jan 13th, 2023 - Telehealth (TH) interventions may improve access to care, disease-specific and quality outcomes in chronic liver diseases (CLD). We aimed to systematically evaluate outcomes of TH interventions in CLD. We used key terms and searched PubMed/EMBASE ...

Jan 13th, 2023 - Various vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 have been developed in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic, several of which are highly effective in preventing COVID-19 in the general popula...

Jan 11th, 2023 - Vegetables is the main sources of dietary nitrate. Studies suggested the potential link between nitrate content of vegetables and reduce the risk of chronic diseases. We aimed to assess the association between nitrate-containing vegetables (NCVs) ...

May 16th, 2022 - To provide evidence-based recommendations regarding the diagnosis and management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) to endocrinologists, primary care clinicians, health care professionals, and other...

Mar 20th, 2021 - In 2015 the European Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (EASL) and the Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio del Hígado (ALEH) published a guideline for the use of non-invasive markers of liver disease. At that time, this guideline f...

Feb 23rd, 2020 - The Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) on Occupational Liver Diseases (OLD) of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) have been developed to increase awareness, recognition and improve management of patients with OLD. Indeed, a...

Oct 1st, 2019 - Transition describes a progressive and highly coordinated process encompassing the transfer of a young patient from paediatric care to the adult-care system. Transfer of medical care for an adolescent to adult services is a complex and challenging...

Nov 17th, 2022 - Treatment with bepirovirsen led to sustained clearance of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA for 24 weeks after the end of treatment for adults with chronic HBV in the phase 2b B-Clear study. The study results were...

Nov 17th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hepatologists, particularly women and racial/ethnic minorities, commonly experience discrimination in the workplace, according to a cross-sectional survey of members of the American Association for the Study of Liver Di...

Mar 4th, 2021 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Hello. I'm Dr David Johnson, professor of medicine and chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Kudos to the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease...

Nov 13th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Several risk factors associated with hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection can be used to identify people who should be screened, researchers report. "It was interesting to find that the risk factors that were identified in...

Nov 13th, 2020 - Almost 60% of patients with biopsy-confirmed nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and liver fibrosis showed resolution of NASH after treatment with semaglutide,according to a phase 2, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial published in the New...