[PDF] Top 20 Factors associated with 25 hydroxyvitamin D levels in patients with liver cirrhosis

... Methods Patients were evaluated at the outpatient clinic of the Gastroenterology Division and the following clinical variables were collected: age, gender, race, smoking history, etiology of cirrhosis, ... See full document

... difficulty in early determination of the severity of cirrhotic ...these patients reduces the heart rate and can mask SIRS, hepatic encephalopathy can lead to tachyp- nea and hypersplenism caused by ... See full document

... for liver transplants in cases of HCC have been known as the Milan ...important factors associated with re- currence and survival after liver transplantation are the ... See full document

... independently associated with the presence of DD. In the subgroup of consecutive pa- tients (n = 31) with evaluation of cytokines, those (n = 22) with DD, compared to those (n = 9) ... See full document

... used in the present study. 14 In conclusion, the present study demonstrates for the first time that liver cirrhosis in humans is asso- ciated with significant alterations of ... See full document

... treated patients developed bacterial infections, with spontaneous bacterial peri- tonitis (SBP) being the most common type of infec- tion and Gram negative bacilli the main pathogenic ...Five ... See full document

... 84 liver biopsies of patients with chronic infection with hepatitis C virus were ...hepatitis with mild activity without fibrosis was observed; as stage II when moderate chronic ... See full document

... metabolic factors Steatosis occurs in more than 50% of patients with chronic hepatitis C and is associated with increased he- patic ...fibrosis. In many of these ... See full document

... the liver in rats that seems to be mediated by IGF-I, TNF-alpha, and nitric ...GHRP-2 in the liver is probably exerted on non- parenchymal cells ...injury in rats, as a result of its ... See full document

... In patients with cirrhosis, primary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding often relies on EVBL due to the relative- ly frequent intolerance to beta-blockers and to the lack of an adequate means to ... See full document

... analysed with the χ 2 test or with Fisher’s exact test if at least one cell had an expected count < ...serum 25-(OH)D ...vitamin D levels in a multivariate ... See full document

... HCY levels in patients with IR syn- drome or related co-morbidities compared to those ...inhibitor-1 levels, but lower serum HCY levels com- pared with non-insulin ... See full document

... risk patients (23.0% x 6.5%, p = 0.01). In our series, creatinine was significantly higher in patients who died during hospitalization than in survivors ...for in-hospital ... See full document

... stress. In the sigmoid mucosa, gene tran- scription of GR as well as GS, the latter being one of the enzymes involved in the synthesis of GSH, was down-regu- lated in cirrhotic patients, which ... See full document

... comply with the data of some previous studies 12,13,33-35 in which occult HBV infection was described as associated with the more severe stages of the liver ...example, in a ... See full document

... than 25 million people since it was first identified in ...demics in living history ...ways in which HIV affects mortality rates within the infected population and to identify the ... See full document

... In our research, the adjusted model showed that acid diet is the most important factor involved in DH severity. We found that pH of natural juices and pH of alcohol beverages were risk factors for ... See full document

... diagnosed with depression accor- ding to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition Text Revision (DS-IV-TR) cri- ...teria. In this study, 121 patients diagnosed ... See full document

... implicated in the development of AI in patients with cirrhosis have not been fully ...cirrhotic patients have low levels of lipids, AI could be attributed to cortisol ... See full document

... cachexia in the devel- opment of hepatic encephalopathy, thus it is not only a cross-sectional association, but also a validated and easily reproducible nutritional ...limitations in this study, individual ... See full document