Clinical and laboratory parameters associated with li-rads as diagnostic of liver nodule in patients with cirrhosis.

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer in the world. Clinical and laboratory evaluation of a cirrhotic patient with a liver nodule may show alterations suggesting malignancy. There is a lack of questions related to diagnosis of HCC and evaluation of liver imaging reporting and data system (LI-RADS) could be a tool for early diagnosis of HCC.

Influence of LGALS3 and PNPLA3 genes in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in patients undergone bariatric surgery.

Aim: This study evaluated the genesPNPLA3 and LGALS3 in patients who have undergone bariatric surgery.

Methods: Individuals with NAFLD and NASH were evaluated, the DNA was extracted from total blood for genotyping of rs4644, rs4652 from LGALS3 and rs738409 from PNPLA3 genes, the total RNA was obtained from liver biopsy. For the detection of the molecular targets, real-time PCR through Taqman probes was used.