Clinical outcomes of liver transplantation for polycystic liver disease: A single center experience

Polycystic liver disease (PLD) is a celiopathy characterized by progressive growth of multiple hepatic cysts. In a minority of patients, severe symptomatic hepatomegaly necessitates liver transplantation (LT). The purpos...

The prevalence and clinical characteristics of glucose metabolism disorders in patients with liver cirrhosis. A prospective study

Aims. To define the prevalence and clinical characteristics of glucose metabolism disorders (GMD) in patients with compensated liver cirrhosis (LC). Material and methods. Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels were measured...

Inter and intrapatient evolution of hepatitis C virus

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has a short replication time, high mutation rates and large population sizes, all of which make it an excellent experimental model for evolution studies, because evolution can be visualized in rea...

Embolization of porto-systemic shunt as treatment for recurrent hepatic encephalopathy

DNA methylation markers and serum α-fetoprotein level are prognostic factors in hepatocellular carcinoma

Introduction. Hypermethylation of relevant genes may affect the prognosis of patients with cancer. Thepurpose of this study was to analyze whether methylation of the promoter regions of cell cycle regulatorsas well as el...