Wilson’s disease is a rare progressive genetic disorder of copper metabolism associated with hepatolenticular degeneration. Left untreated, it results in…
Liver disease in pregnancy
Liver disease in the pregnant patient often causes concern. This chapter covers both acute liver pathologies that occur in pregnancy,…
Liver and biliary disease in childhood
Acute liver disease or failure in children is the result of viral hepatitis (A, B, E, seronegative), indeterminate hepatitis or…
Management of portal hypertension, Budd–Chiari syndrome and portal vein thrombosis
Portal hypertension is associated with many of the known complications of cirrhosis and has an enormous impact on patients’ prognosis.…
Hepatic encephalopathy
Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a neurocognitive disorder associated with both acute and chronic liver injury. It manifests as a wide…
Liver transplantation
Liver transplantation is a successful therapy for end-stage liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma and acute liver failure. Early referral is essential…
Medical News Today: What to know about headaches after exercise
There are many possible causes to a headache after exercise, from simple things like dehydration, to possibly more complex medical…
Single discrimination events alter college students’ daily behavior
Researchers aimed to understand both the prevalence of discrimination events and how these events affect college students in their daily…
Peering into a more ‘human’ petri dish
The recent development of physiologic media, like other efforts designed to address the modeling capacity of cell culture, holds immense…
Eye on research: A new way to detect and study retinoblastoma
Researchers advance the field of retinoblastoma research through the discovery and use of aqueous humor biopsy. Genetic tumor information not…