Early predictors of corticosteroid treatment failure in icteric presentations of autoimmune hepatitis.

Unlabelled: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) typically responds to treatment in 90% of patients. Early prediction of treatment outcome would be advantageous in clinical practice. We evaluated whether parameters at initiation of therapy or changes in these parameters at day 3 and day 7 following corticosteroid initiation predicted treatment failure.

Biliopancreatic diversion: long-term effects on gonadal function in severely obese men.

Background: This study investigated hormonal parameters of gonadal function in severely obese men before and 1 year after undergoing biliopancreatic diversion (BPD).

Methods: This observational 1-year postoperative study conducted at medical and surgical clinics at an academic medical center in Italy followed 20 severely obese men age 21 to 63 years, with a mean (+/- standard deviation) body mass index (BMI) of 47.3 +/- 13.