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Filter by:Alcoholic liver disease has become one of the foremost causes of chronic liver disease across the world, and a cause of considerable morbidity and mortality. Alcoholic steatohepatitis is an entity in this broad spectrum, with severe alcoholic hepatitis transitioning to acute on chronic liver failure carrying a one month mortality of as high as 20 to 50%. The current management guidelines for severe alcoholic hepatitis show benefit with prolonged alcohol abstinence, nutritional support, the use of corticosteroids, pentoxifylline or N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) and early liver transplantation. However, major studies and meta-analyses have demonstrated that these interventions, with the exception of early liver transplantation, do not improve mortality rates to the level of statistical significance. Owing to the high short term mortality associated with severe alcoholic hepatitis, the inadequacy of a treatment that could significantly impact this short term mortality, and the limited applicability of early liver transplantation, a study on newer modalities of treatment is warranted. The role that human gut microbiota plays in health and disease is receiving considerable attention. Targeting intestinal dysbiosis, a phenomenon found to be intricately linked with the causation of alcoholic hepatitis, could provide insights into novel therapeutic strategies. Fecal microbiota transplantation is a novel approach that has gained widespread acceptance in in the management of recurrent severe Clostridium difficile infection. It's role is also being studied in other diseases where an association with gut dysbiosis has been found, such as in inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome. The role of FMT has also been studied in liver diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), liver cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis. In this process, a diseased recipient is transferred fecal material containing the microflora of a healthy individual. It limits the colonization of pathogens, inducing colonization resistance, affects microbiota composition in the gut, as well as metabolism in the microbial pathogens. FMT helps alleviate gut dysbiosis and restores gut microbial diversity. Our aim is to evaluate the role of FMT on short term survival and improvement in scores of prognostic significance (CTP, MELD, MELDNa, mDF) in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis.
1. Evaluation the safety of using human umbilical mesenchymal stem cells to treat patients with hepatitis B cirrhosis. 2. Observe the curative effect of patients with hepatitis B cirrhosis who use human umbilical mesenchymal stem cells to treat. 3. Explore the possible mechanism of human umbilical mesenchymal stem cells to treat patients with hepatitis B cirrhosis.
The " CirB-RNA " cohort aims to create a biological collection associated with clinical and biological data from patients with hepatitis B infection. This project is part of a much larger program that aims to characterize and quantify circulating viral RNAs as a possible new biomarker of hepatitis B functional cure.
In this study, we will evaluate the incidence of hepatitis B virus reactivation within the first 6 months of treatment with rituximab, standard chemotherapy and TAF in patients with diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma/Chronic Lymphoid Leukemia HBsAg-positive.
A total of 80 adult chronic hepatitis B patients with advanced liver fibrosis (including fibrosis stage 3 and cirrhosis), who are currently on nucleot(s)ide analogs (except tenofovir alafenamide) therapy with detectable HBV DNA after 52 weeks of therapy will switch prior NUCs to TAF 25 mg/day for 96 weeks
To Identify the collected cases who can stop NAs safely with satisfactory clinical outcome including sustain viral remission and HBsAg clearance among chronic hepatitis B(CHB) patients.
A community-based "test and treat" intervention integrating point-of-care HCV RNA testing, non-invasive liver disease assessment and linkage to care will lead to a reduction in HCV prevalence among people attending Aboriginal health services.
The main risk factor for development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is cirrhosis of any etiology, with an annual incidence risk between 1-6%; currently the leading cause of death in patients with cirrhosis and the 2nd cause of death by cancer worldwide. Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) is the first single cause associated to cirrhosis and HCC in the Western world. With the advent of new direct antiviral agents (DAA) of chronic HCV infection, virological cure generally exceeds 90% of the cases. Previous studies have shown that the incidence of HCC is lower in patients with virologic cure after treatment with pegINF schemes. However, recently published data, open up more controversy regarding the incidence of HCC after virologic cure with DAA. An increasing incidence of HCC after virologic cure in patients treated with DAA has been observed, opening a paradox yet unexplained. This project proposes to answer the following clinical research question: in patients with HCV cirrhosis treated with DAA, is there a change in the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma? To answer this question a prospective longitudinal cohort study of patients with Child Pugh A-B cirrhosis will be held at 3 years minimum follow-up. A minimum of 210 patients will be included with clinical or histological or non-invasive diagnosis of cirrhosis Child Pugh A or B, with HCV treated with DAA and without hepatocellular carcinoma at the time of enrollment. From this cohort, patients who develop HCC during follow-up will be identified. Routine screening will be done through ultrasound every 6 months in all subjects enrolled and the diagnosis of HCC will be according to recommendations of European and American guidelines.
Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a florid presentation of alcoholic liver disease characterized by liver failure in the context of recent and heavy alcohol consumption. The condition carries a high fatality risk; patients with severe AH have a 30% mortality rate at 90 days after presentation. Currently there is no effective treatment for severe alcoholic hepatitis. Based on our current understanding of the disease pathogenesis IL-1 (interleukin) is a key mediator of hepatic inflammation responsible for metabolic disturbances, fibrogenesis stellate cell activation and consequently portal hypertension. Canakinumab is a licensed monoclonal antibody inhibitor of IL-1 and may consequently reverse the adverse effects of the cytokine in patients with this disorder. Therefore, the main objective of the ISAIAH trial is to explore the potential benefits of the IL-1β antibody, Canakinumab (solution for injection), in the treatment of alcoholic hepatitis. ISAIAH is a multicentre, double blind, randomized (1:1), placebo controlled trial. The trial will follow patients up for 90 days and will be conducted in centres across the United Kingdom. Twenty-six patients will be recruited to each arm of the trial: total 52 patients.
The study is to guide clinical cure of peginterferon alfa-2a treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis B based on the detection of interferon gene mutation (IFNA2p.Ala120Thr) and interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) detection gene spectrum.