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Filter by:Patients with chronic liver disease are at high risk of developing liver scarring (fibrosis), with ultimate risks of cirrhosis and liver cancer that may require liver transplant. The investigators would like to develop non invasive advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques (MR diffusion, perfusion and elastography) to assess the degree of liver damage in patients with chronic liver disease. These techniques combined could reach high diagnostic performance for detection of liver fibrosis; and could decrease the number of liver biopsies, which have risks and sample only a small portion of the liver.
Recent studies indicate that probiotics can stimulate intestinal immunity and tighten the junctions of epithelial cells. By these ways, probiotics can reduce bacterial translocation; hence, they can ameliorate systemic inflammatory status. Because cirrhotic patients with portal hypertension often suffer from infections from intestinal flora, the investigators speculate that probiotics will be beneficial to those patients.
This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of mesenchymal stem cells in patients with cirrhosis of liver. Stem cells will be injected into the hepatic artery. Improvement in various parameters will be observed over 2 years.
This is a study to evaluate the primovist as a new contrast agent useful to diagnostic of hepatocellular carcinoma
The purpose of this study is to describe the HRQoL in those with MELD scores </= 15 in a single center for those who are pre-liver transplant candidates
The main purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques in the detection and grading of liver fibrosis, so that the investigators can reduce the need of invasive techniques such as liver biopsy and transjugular hepatic venous portal pressure gradient (HVPG) measurements to assess the degree of liver scarring and portal hypertension.
Hypothesis: Tolvaptan will improve cognitive function, brain edema and health-related quality of life in cirrhotic patients with hyponatremia
The non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic viral hepatitis B and C is now entering clinical practice. It is based on blood tests, especially FibroMetre® and Fibrotest® and on elastography with the Fibroscan®. Despite the overall satisfactory diagnostic performance for all of these tests (AUROC ranging from 0.80 to 0.90 depending on the study) for the discrimination of F≤1 versus F≥2, the positive and negative predictive values , however, are far from be perfect in a given patient. With these technique, failures are also possible and the measures do not meet quality standards that increase the risk of misclassification. It would be particularly useful to have new generation techniques with a better diagnostic performance. In this project, in response to the problems presented above, we propose to evaluate the diagnostic performance of five innovative ultrasonic techniques for the non-invasive diagnosis of fibrosis.
This is a post market surveillance registry to monitor the safety and performance of the ALFApump system.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a quadruple regimen (VX-222, telaprevir, pegylated interferon, and ribavirin)in subjects with hepatitis C with cirrhosis.