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Hepatitis vaccination in patients with chronic liver disease reviewed.
2004 JUN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists review hepatitis vaccination in patients with chronic liver disease in a recent issue of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
According to a study from the United States, "Evidence regarding the outcomes of viral super-infection in patients with chronic liver disease and practical strategies for hepatitis A and B vaccination of these individuals are reviewed.
"Patients with acute hepatitis A and chronic hepatitis B have a more severe clinical course and a higher death rate compared with otherwise healthy individuals with hepatitis A, and these differences are most pronounced in older patients and those with histological evidence of chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis, rather than in asymptomatic hepatitis B carriers.
"Patients with acute hepatitis A super-infection and chronic hepatitis C have an increased risk of fulminant hepatitis and death," said G. Reiss and Emmet B. Keeffe at Stanford University. "In addition, patients with other chronic liver diseases also appear to be at increased risk for more severe disease with superimposed hepatitis A. Patients with chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus co-infection have more severe laboratory abnormalities, more severe histological disease, a greater frequency of cirrhosis and complications of cirrhosis, and a higher ...
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...pylori eradication therapy in chronic liver disease' have been presented...therapy in patients with chronic liver disease and peptic ulcer," investigators...South Korea report (see also Chronic Liver Disease Therapy). "One hundred...
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...of oesophageal varices and liver fibrosis in virus-related chronic liver disease patients' new findings in chronic liver disease. "To optimize management of chronic liver disease (CLD), a simple and noninvasive test to determine oesophageal...
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...documenting progression of chronic liver disease to cirrhosis. Methods...in three animal models of chronic liver disease. Sixty six adult Sprague...Over the course of the chronic liver disease, a progressive decrease...
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- Magazine article from: Gut Collier, J.D. Ninkovic, M. Compston, J.E. February 1, 2002 700+ words
...important complication of chronic liver disease is osteo-dystrophy which...transplantation for end stage chronic liver disease. Osteoporosis is defined...osteoporosis in patients with chronic liver disease. (1-3) The scope of...
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Fresh data on chronic liver disease are presented in the report 'Autonomic dysfunction in chronic liver disease.' "Autonomic dysfunction (AD) is common in chronic liver disease (CLD) of all aetiologies...
- The influence of renin-angiotensin system polymorphisms on the renal...
- Magazine article from: Gut Datta, S. McGhee, A. Downie, A.C. Forrest, E.H. April 1, 2004 700+ words
Background: Chronic liver disease is associated with renal dysfunction...dysfunction in patients with chronic liver disease. Methods: We studied 15 patients with chronic liver disease not taking any diuretics. ACE...
- Cavernous hemangiomas are smaller in patients with chronic liver disease.
- Newspaper article from: Gene Therapy Weekly April 8, 2004 700+ words
...smaller in patients with chronic liver disease. "The purpose of our study...hemangiomas in patients with chronic liver disease and compare them with hemangiomas...often solitary in livers with chronic liver disease, large lesions were exclusively...
- Research results from Lund University update knowledge of chronic liver disease...
- Newspaper article from: Obesity & Diabetes Week April 6, 2009 700+ words
...Bio-ecological control of chronic liver disease and encephalopathy,' is...originally associated with chronic liver disease but is increasingly associated...Lund University (see also Chronic Liver Disease Prevention). The researchers...
Source: HighBeam Research, Hepatitis vaccination in patients with chronic liver disease reviewed.