Both coil- and plug-assisted retrograde transvenous obliteration (CARTO/PARTO) for the treatment of portal hypertensive variceal bleeding have good long-term survival and clinical outcomes, according ...

The liver is a large, glandular, vital organ divided into two main lobes with a major role in metabolism, detoxification and production of chemicals necessary for digestion. The liver is ...

Otherwise, it would lead to diseases like acute (sudden) hepatitis (inflammation), chronic (long duration) hepatitis, fatty ...

A recent study found that 80 per cent of IT professionals in India have fatty liver, due to work pressure, sedentary ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is estimated to occur in up to 50% of patients with liver cirrhosis and is associated with increased morbidity and a high risk of short-term and long-term mortality.1 ...

Spironolactone is a diuretic (water pill) commonly used to treat heart failure and high blood pressure, but it can also be ...

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), now termed Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD), is rising ...

The guidelines also emphasise that the diet should have 1,200 to 1,800 kilocalories per day or 500-700 kilocalories less ...

Since TIPS is associated with other shortcomings, such as stent occlusion, risk of heart failure, and worsened liver function, patients with tense ascites are typically initially treated with ...

Right liver atrophy and increased compensation of the left liver ... The patient had a large amount of ascites after the operation, which was comprehensively considered transudate according to its ...

liver failure.1 Traditionally, cirrhosis has been dichotomised in compensated and decompensated, and the transition to decompensated cirrhosis happens when any of the following hallmarks occurs: ...

Fatty liver disease is now known as “Steatotic liver disease ... Possible symptoms of NASH and cirrhosis, or severe scarring, include: Itchy skin, abdominal swelling, also called ascites (uh-SY-teez), ...