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The Growing Landscape of NAFLD-Associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Its Impa...

Abstract Liver cancer is globally the third leading cause of death from cancer. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) develops in patients with underlying liver disease. The fraction of HCC attributed to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) shows an accelerated increase in the last decades, being already responsible for 15% of all HCC cases. Similar to other causes of liver cirrhosis, patients with NAFLD-associate...

Celiac Disease Revisited

Abstract Celiac disease (CD) is a systemic disease triggered by gluten ingestion in genetically predisposed individuals. It manifests primarily as an autoimmune enteropathy associated with specific circulating autoantibodies and a human leukocyte antigen haplotype (HLA-DQ2 or HLA-DQ8). It afflicts roughly 1% of the population, though the majority of patients remain undiagnosed. Diarrhea and malabsorption are cl...

Secondary Sclerosing Cholangitis in Critically Ill Patients: An Underdiagnosed ...

Secondary sclerosing cholangitis in critically ill patients (SSCCIP) is a recently identified cholestatic liver disease occurring in patients without prior history of hepatobiliary disease, after receiving treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU) in different settings, including cardiothoracic surgery, infection, trauma, and burns. It is a rare entity, being estimated to occur in 1/2,000 patients in an ICU; h...

Liquid Diagnosis of Hepatic Encephalopathy: Are We There Already?

Controlled Attenuation Parameter as a Noninvasive Method to Detect and Quantify...

A Bugs Battle on Behalf of the Liver

Diarreia Associada a Clostridium Difficile num Hospital Central

INTRODUÇÃO: Tem-se assistido a um aumento da incidência da diarreia associada ao Clostridium difficile (DACD) e ao aparecimento de estirpes de maior virulência. OBJECTIVOS: O objectivo do estudo foi a caracterização epidemiológica e clínica dos doentes adultos, internados consecutivamente, por DACD, num hospital central. MATERIAL E MÉTODOS: Análise retrospectiva dos doentes internados, em que se efectuou o diag...