Which Prognostic Tool to Use for Assessing the Prognosis of Cirrhosis? Child-Pugh score has been the reference for assessing the prognosis of cirrhosis for about three decades. The longevity of ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine. Contrary to ...

Cardiac remodeling, which is characterized by mechanical and electrical remodeling, is a significant pathophysiological process involved in almost all forms of heart diseases. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a ...

Hepatitis and cirrhosis are both diseases that affect the liver. Since hepatitis and cirrhosis are in many ways on a continuum of disease, the symptoms may be very similar. However, there are a ...

Methods: This retrospective study divided 128 patients with cirrhosis into three groups by 25th and 75th quartiles of baseline ... Further, a study of patients with heart failure reported an ...

The researcher, a global liver damage expert, sounds the alarm over our limited awareness of the connection between drug ...

Cytokinetics CYTK announced that it has begun enrolling patients in its mid-stage study of CK-4021586 (CK-586), a cardiac ...

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 ...

Serum sodium is a simple, readily available, and objective marker of disease severity. During cirrhosis, hyponatremia results from solute-free water retention. Systemic arterial vasodilation leads ...

Learn about the groundbreaking research on evidence-based care at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. Understand the ...

Propofol has proven effective in liver transplantation procedures for both initiating and sustaining anesthesia. Compared to ...