Management of Complications of Chronic Liver Disease: “When to Refer to Transplant?” docx

... transplant Management of Complications of Chronic Liver Disease: “When to Refer to Transplant?” Philip Rosenthal, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics & Surgery University of California, San Francisco Nutritional ... disease MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF LIVER TRANSPLANT LIVER TRANSPLANT CANDIDATES CANDIDATES • Management of complica...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... consumption of less than 10 g; and (3) appropriate exclusion of other liver diseases based on standard clinical, laboratory, imaging and/or liver biopsy features. Laboratory tests to rule out other liver ... performed due to persistently abnormal liver enzymes. Liver biopsy features including grade of steatosis, inflammatory infiltrate, and ballooning, the presence of Ma...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... identifying patients at high risk of COPD, followed by watchful surveillance of these patients, is advised. Respiratory Symptoms Of the chronic symptoms characteristic of COPD (dyspnea, cough, sputum ... investigations of COPD risk factors, ways to reduce exposure to these factors, and the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in COPD pathogenesis continue to be i...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... independent of the agent used. The group with the highest tertile of BP reduction (-6.9 mmHg (-9.1 to -4.8) had a relative risk of ESRD of 0.74 (0.59 to 0.92). 138 A systolic BP of >130 mmHg ... proteinuria (RR of ESRD in ACE inhibitor group 0.69; 95% CI 0.51 to 0.94, doubling of serum creatinine /ESRD combined 0.70; 95% CI 0.55 to 0.88). Further analysis of this co...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... Journal of Haematology, 140, 255–266 production of NADPH oxidase-corrected granulocytes after gene therapy of chronic granulomatous disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the ... Journal of Hematology, 85, 70–72. The International Chronic Granulomatous Disease Cooperative Study Group (1991) A controlled trial of interferon gamma to prevent infection...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... range of 3 mA down to 100 nA, was used for treatment of chronic wounds and ulcers associated with chronic disease (21). The device used in the ex- periment was supposed to deliver electrons to ... the mediator of damage to cellular components of insulin production (33,39). A major source of cellular reactive oxygen spe- cies is mitochondria, whose dysfunction cont...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... blood counts is to aggressively use hematopoietic growth factors. The often poor tolerability of this population to any interferon and ribavirin regimen reflects a number of factors including ... Rodriguez-Luna H. Management of hepatitis C virus infection in the setting of liver transplantation. Liver Transpl 2005; 11:479-89. 6. Charlton M. Liver biopsy, viral kineti...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:08

... of ribavirin and the virological monitoring procedure [19]. HCV genotype 1 Given the likelihood of a sustained virological response, of the order of 40% to 50%, a precise assessment of liver ... decision to treat patients with chronic hepatitis C depends on multiple parameters, including a precise assessment of the severity of liver disease and of its foreseea...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:56

... b b i i o o g g r r a a p p h h y y John M. Vierling is Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the former Director of Hepatology and Medical Director of Multi-Organ Transplantation ... with respect to risk or prevalence of reinfection, development of LAM resistance or prevalence of precore mutations. 4. Management of Patients P...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:17

... presence of DM were the independent predictors of CVD in the earlier stages of CKD (Table 4). Table 1: Characteristics of patients with CKD stage II to IV excluding patient with history of renal ... Treatment of High Blood Pres- sure have classified the presence of CKD as a cardio- vascular risk factor (9, 13, 14). These findings led to the evaluation of novel cardiov...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:52