a platelet count <150 or biochemical disease activity on treatment), imaging (liver ultrasound to identify overt cirrhosis and splenomegaly; transient elastography to identify increased liver ...

Bioartificial liver support systems, granulocyte-colony stimulating factors or stem-cell transplant are in the horizon of medical care of this patient population; however, data are too premature to ...

For example, alcoholic fatty liver typically has a milder clinical presentation than alcoholic hepatitis or cirrhosis has. Therefore, it is useful to separate alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic ...

However, where it fell short was with respect to the failure at week 36 with the phase 2b SYMMETRY study, which used EFX to treat compensated cirrhosis ... build up in the liver.

Ascites is the medical term for fluid collecting in the abdomen, while cirrhosis is scarring of the liver ... the findings of these scans. A 2020 review found that while ultrasound has a high ...

A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver complications ...

Right now, patients with obesity and cirrhosis have few treatments for their progressive liver disease, but a new study offers one available option: bariatric surgery. Weight loss operations ...

Akero Therapeutics reported Monday strong results from a nearly two-year, placebo-controlled study showing its drug efruxifermin reversed liver scarring in patients with cirrhosis caused by the ...

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), recently re-termed as metabolic ... portal hypertension and variceal bleeding in patients with NAFLD/MASLD cirrhosis. These findings are robust, ...