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| | New CDC HIV Prevention Funding Emphasizes Effectiveness, Focuses on Those Already Infected |
 | | To test the association of steatosis with parameters related to activity and stage of CHC, univariate analysis was used to assess 12 clinical and biochemical parameters. | | | Interestingly, we also found that BMI ≥25 kg/m2 was associated with any grade of steatosis, indicating that being overweight/obese may not affect grade of steatosis in these patients. | | | To further examine the pathogenic role of steatosis on CHC progression, the same univariate analysis was also performed to compare patients lacking steatosis to those with grade II/III steatosis. |
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http://www.natap.org/2003/dec/122903_9.htm
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| | Prevalence of hepatic steatosis (fatty liver) in an urban population in the United States: Impact of ethnicity |
| | This is the largest study to date to use 1H-MRS, a highly sensitive and quantitative technique, to determine the prevalence of hepatic steatosis in a population-based sample. | | | Previous studies of NAFLD in the general population have relied on qualitative or semiquantitative techniques to assess hepatic fat content. | | | Why only a subset of at-risk individuals develop steatosis and a smaller fraction ultimately develop steatohepatitis remains unclear. |
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| | The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology |
| | Forty six of the patients complained of a blunt pain in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen and were referred to Department of Gastroenterology, Çukurova university with suspected cholelithiasis. | | | The new sonographic grading system was found to be valuable, but it needs to be further investigated in large patient populations. | | | Following ultrasonographic evaluation, a complete physical examination, past medical history and informed consent was taken from the patients in this study. |
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http://www.turkgastro.org/text.php?id=202
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| | Hepatitis Central, Hepatic Steatosis: Innocent Bystander or Guilty |
| | This information provides a basis for evaluating the prognosis of patients with steatosis and a rationale for their management. | | | Experimental studies in both human beings and animal models have at last begun to unravel the pathogenic mechanisms responsible for disease progression. | | | Information at this website is for educational purposes only; statements about products and health conditions have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. |
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http://hepatitis-central.com/hcv/liver/hepatic/steatosis.html
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| | MVI Newsflash: Hepatic Cholestasis In Patients Receiving Chronic PN |
| | Since the number of septic episodes is associated with hepatic complications of PN, adherence to a rigid protocol of catheter care would be beneficial. | | | Patients on long-term PN with severe malabsorption should be considered for intravenous choline supplementation; however, this product is not commercially available yet so patients would have to be enrolled in a clinical trial where they could receive a sterile product. | | | In the last decade, there has been a major emphasis on feeding fewer calories to patients receiving PN. |
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http://www.imakenews.com/mvius/e_article000183277.cfm
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| | Hepatitis Neighborhood : Green Tea Ingredient Might Block Fatty Liver: Study |
| | "Liver steatosis is now a primary factor in determining the usability of potential organs," wrote lead study author Kenneth Chavin, MD, PhD, in the division of Transplant Surgery and department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina. | | | In this study, doctors only looked at hepatic steatosis, the more benign condition. | | | Hepatic steatosis is a condition in which fat accumulates in the cells that make up the |
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http://www.hepatitisneighborhood.com/content/in_the_news/archive_2263.aspx
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| | Liver Issues (Steatosis) - HCV News Articles |
| | Effect of Significant Histologic Steatosis or Steatohepatitis on Response to Antiviral Therapy in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C | | | Steatosis and Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C | | | Steatosis Does Not Affect the Result of Antiviral Treatment in HCV Patients with Genotype 3 |
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http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hep_c/hepc_news_liver_steatosis.html
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| | Cirrhosis |
| | "Hepatic Steatosis in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery and Its Relationship to Body Mass Index and Co-Morbidities." Obesity Surgery 13 (August 2003): 622-624. | | | taking precautions (practicing safe sex, avoiding dirty needles) to prevent hepatitis | | | Interferon medicines may be used by patients with chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C to prevent post-hepatic cirrhosis. |
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http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/cirrhosis.jsp
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| | However, imaging techniques cannot distinguish between benign steatosis and steatohepatitis. | | | Hepatic steatosis is increasingly being recognized as a condition that may progress to end-stage liver disease. | | | Hepatic steatosis is a risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. |
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| | Ruth Lilly Medical Library |
| | However, there existed no relationship between hepatic TG content and the steatosis grade as assessed by any of the pathologists (see figure below). | | | of Medicine; IN Background: Excessive accumulation of triglyceride (TG) in the hepatocytes leads to macrovesicular steatosis and in some patients it is associated with steatohepatitis and cirrhosis. | | | Aim: To examine if the degree of hepatic steatosis as graded by pathologists correlates with the hepatic TG content in human liver tissue. |
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http://www.medlib.iupui.edu/faculty/scs2004/P1152004.html
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| | Prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease varies by ethnicity |
| | They also found further evidence that a normal serum ALT level offers little diagnostic or prognostic value when assessing patients for NAFLD. | | | In conclusion, the authors report, "Understanding the mechanisms responsible for the ethnic differences in the prevalence of hepatic steatosis and steatosis-related liver injury may provide clues to the development of new therapeutic approaches for the prevention and treatment of this disorder." | | | Limitations of this study include possible underestimation of alcohol intake, since this was self-reported by the patients in the study. |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=17458
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| | Simple FactSheet: Lactic Acidosis and Hepatic Steatosis |
| | More research is needed to confirm these findings and work out how best to treat the problem. | | | There is no proven treatment for lactic acidosis other than stopping the NRTI drugs as quickly as possible. | | | The liver can also become enlarged, a condition which doctors call hepatomegaly. |
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http://www.atdn.org/simple/lactic.html
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| | Hepatitis C Outreach Project |
| | The implications of this study are that liver biopsy may be avoided in subjects with a normal BMI and absence of other comorbid conditions. | | | In all patients with steatosis on imaging studies, steatosis was confirmed by liver biopsy. | | | No patient with a BMI less than 25 had hepatic steatosis. |
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| | The Healing Power of Herbs |
| | The therapeutic effect of silymarin in these disorders is described below, along with a discussion on a new form of silymarin (phosphatidylcholine-bound silymarin) and its clinical effects. | | | It is effective in both acute and chronic viral hepatitis. | | | In one of the first extensive double-blind clinical trials investigating silymarin's therapeutic effect in liver disorders, silymarin demonstrated impressive results in 129 patients with toxic metabolic liver damage, fatty degeneration of the liver of various origins, or chronic hepatitis, as compared with a control group composed of fifty-six patients. |
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http://www.liversupport.com/info3.htm
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| | Diabetes Care: Hypoadiponectinemia is closely associated with nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis in obese subjects |
| | Hypoadiponectinemia is closely associated with nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis in obese subjects | | | Diabetes Care: Hypoadiponectinemia is closely associated with nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis in obese subjects | | | Thus, these results show that hypoadiponectinemia is closely associated with nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis in obese healthy individuals, thus suggesting that hypoadiponectinemia might be, at least partly, responsible for hepatic steatosis and liver test abnormalities found in these subjects. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CUH/is_8_27/ai_n6151741
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| | Lactic acidosis and hepatic steatosis associated with use of stavudine: report of four cases. |
| | CONCLUSION: Because hepatic steatosis may be life-threatening, physicians should consider it as a possible cause of elevated hepatic aminotransferase levels among patients taking stavudine. | | | MEASUREMENTS: Levels of lactic acid, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, amylase, and lipase; computed tomography of the abdomen; liver biopsy (two patients); and muscle biopsy (two patients). | | | OBJECTIVE: To describe the syndrome of hepatic steatosis, lactic acidosis, and myopathy in four patients taking stavudine. |
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http://www.aegis.com/aidsline/2000/oct/A00A0852.html
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| | Lecithin increases plasma free choline and decreases hepatic steatosis in long- |
| | It was concluded that hepatic steatosis in many patients receiving long term TPN is caused by plasma-free choline deficiency and may be reversed with lecithin supplementation. | | | Nonsignificant changes were seen in the placebo group. | | | In a group of 15 patients receiving home TPN who had low plasma free choline levels (6.3 +/- 0.8 mmol/L), we found 50% had hepatic steatosis. |
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| | Nutrition Research Newsletter: Liver volume visceral obesity in women with hepatic steatosis undergoing gastric banding ... |
| | The patients were evaluated with a total-body multislices MRI scan immediately before and 8 and 24 weeks after surgery. | | | In the present study, the relationship between visceral obesity and hepatic steatosis was investigated in a small group of morbidly obese women treated by means of adjustable silicone gastric banding with the LAP-BAND. | | | All patients had an ultrasonographic diagnosis of mild liver steatosis according to standardized criteria. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0887/is_6_21/ai_87852144
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| | FindArticles search for "Liver diseases / Causes of" |
| | Nonalcoholic fatty liver is defined as hepatic steatosis in the absence of alcohol use or another chronic liver disease. | | | Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection frequently causes chronic hepatitis, which is linked to the development of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. | | | These include side effects of drugs and medical herbs, autoimmune hepatitis, hemochomatos |
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| | Fatty liver |
| | Also called steatosis, fatty liver can be a temporary or long-term condition, which is not harmful itself, but may indicate some other type of problem. | | | Left untreated, it can contribute to other illnesses. | | | "Hepatic Steatosis (Fatty Liver) and Steatohepatitis." Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 14th Edition, Volume 2, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1998. |
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| | Neonatal hepatic steatosis by disruption of the adenosine kinase gene. |
| | Neonatal hepatic steatosis (OMIM 228100) is a fatal condition of unknown etiology characterized by a pale and yellow liver and early postnatal mortality. | | | Adenine nucleotides were decreased and S-adenosylhomocysteine, a potent inhibitor of transmethylation reactions, was increased in the mutant liver. | | | Thus, a deficiency in adenosine metabolism is identified as a powerful contributor to the development of neonatal hepatic steatosis, providing a model for the rapid development of postnatally lethal fatty liver. |
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| | Concentration of Free Amino Acids in Blood Plasma of Dairy Cows with developing Hepatic Steatosis |
| | The aim of this experiment was to study the changes in free amino acid (AA) concentration in blood plasma of dairy cows developing hepatic steatosis after parturition and to establish the diagnosis by means of Fischer´s index. | | | The concentration of free amino acids in blood is not a sensitive indicator of liver function impairment, therefore cannot be used in the diagnosis of liver steatosis. | | | Liver impairment made itself felt in high variability of measured values in both groups. |
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| | Component Of Green Tea Protects Injured Livers In Mice |
| | Pretreatment Increases Liver Transplant Survival In Rats (July 7, 2003) -- Pretreating transplanted livers with the immune molecule interleukin-6 (IL-6) dramatically increased survival of rats receiving organs with fatty degeneration -- a common condition in humans that... | | | Further tests revealed an increase in hepatic energy stores (one of the liver's functions is to store energy in the form of glycogen) in EGCG mice and showed that EGCG was acting as an antioxidant, thereby protecting fatty livers from I/R injury. | | | Approximately one-fifth of the U.S. population is afflicted with hepatic steatosis due to a rising incidence of obesity. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223151300.htm
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| | Genesis Health System - Alternative Medicine General Info - Lecithin |
| | Buchman AL, Moukarzel A, Dubin M et al: Lecithin supplementation causes a decrease in hepatic steatosis in choline-deficient long-term TPN patients. | | | Buchman AL, Dubin M, Jenden D et al: Lecithin increases plasma free choline and decreases hepatic steatosis in long-term total parenteral nutrition patients. |
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http://www.genesishealth.com/micromedex/altmedgen/ame0308.aspx
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