6 results match your criteria: "Centre of Liver and Digestive Disorders[Affiliation]"

Background And Rationale: Portal hypertensive enteropathy (PHE) remains difficult to diagnose in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Limited test choices exist for the inspection of the small bowel in these patients. Small bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE) is ideal in this situation but rarely performed.

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(1)H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy-based metabonomic study in patients with cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy.

World J Hepatol

June 2015

Konstantinos John Dabos, John Nicholas Plevris, Peter Clive Hayes, Centre of Liver and Digestive Disorders, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Aim: To identify plasma metabolites used as biomarkers in order to distinguish cirrhotics from controls and encephalopathics.

Methods: A clinical study involving stable cirrhotic patients with and without overt hepatic encephalopathy was designed. A control group of healthy volunteers was used.

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Background: Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is associated with major metabolic disturbances, the onset and severity of which can predict clinical outcome. This study uses admission blood samples to identify early biochemical markers of clinical outcome in patients with non-paracetamol-induced FHF.

Patients And Methods: Fifty-nine patients admitted to the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit with non-paracetamol-induced FHF were studied.

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