Burroughs, F.Med.Sci.; Amar P. Dhillon, M.D. In our daily practice of diagnostic pathology, we review an increasing number of liver biopsy specimens with features suggestive of fibrosis in ...

Recent research suggests that a new approach could help even patients with advanced forms of fatty liver disease.

Researchers describe successful tumor removal through the use of immunotherapy and targeted radiation therapy (TARE), in a patient previously considered ineligible for the procedure.

In 16 patients the pathological examination was based on liver biopsies ... posthepatitic cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis, the pathological examination being based on needle biopsy in 13 and ...

Other tests are useful for determining the severity of cirrhosis and for monitoring complications. Liver biopsy — The best way to confirm the diagnosis of cirrhosis is by obtaining a small piece of ...

Cirrhosis is categorized into two distinct stages ... Study participants had similar characteristics, such as severity of liver disease at their baseline liver biopsy. Fifteen years after enrollment, ...

NAFLD doesn’t have any physical symptoms, which makes it virtually impossible to identify without blood tests or a liver ...

Right now, patients with obesity and cirrhosis have few treatments for their progressive liver disease, but a new study offers one available option: bariatric surgery. Weight loss operations ...

Akero Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKRO) released preliminary topline week 96 results from SYMMETRY Phase 2b study evaluating the efficacy and safety of its lead product candidate efruxifermin (EFX) in ...

Akero Therapeutics announced statistically significant results from a Phase 2b trial of efruxifermin this week, a fibroblast ...

For patients with hepatitis B virus, alcohol is associated with dose-dependent increased risks for cirrhosis and ...

cirrhosis because needle biopsy material obtained from a large parenchymal nodule may lack the characteristic fibrous septa and nodular configuration (Fig. 2). An occasional fibrous septum ...