In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, researchers have identified a vulnerability that opens ...

Consultant General, Hepatobiliary Pancreatic and Liver Transplant Surgeon at Sunway Medical Centre Velocity (SMCV), Dr Johann ...

Excessive alcohol use can harm the body in many ways, including an increase in the risk of various cancers. It damages liver ...

Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) has created a milestone in the field of liver transplant surgery by performing ...

Hepatitis C treatment has undergone a remarkable transformation New antiviral medications offer shorter more effective ...

Excessive alcohol use can harm the body in many ways, including an increase in the risk of various cancers. It damages liver cells, leading to inflammation, scarring and serious conditions ...

liver transplantation in patients with well-controlled HIV is an accepted indication with results equivalent to if not superior to those seen in non-HIV transplantation. Hepatitis C & HIV ...

For hepatitis C, there are antiviral treatments that ... This is called liver failure. In a transplant, your damaged liver is replaced with a healthy one from a donor. You can wait on an organ ...

7 CRC “A. M. and A. Migliavacca” Center for Liver Disease, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy 8 Department of Internal Medicine-DMISM and the IIT ...

and a volunteer for the American Liver Foundation. There are vaccines for hepatitis A and B. While there is no vaccine for hepatitis C, proper treatment can cure the virus in more than 95 percent ...

Phipps, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at Columbia ... Basically, some viruses (like viral hepatitis), excessive drinking or other ...

without cardiac disease and with an established diagnosis of liver cirrhosis due to chronic hepatitis C infection. A composite endpoint of sudden death, death from congestive heart failure or cardiac ...