Cirrhosis of the liver is a chronic and progressive disease in which healthy liver cells are slowly replaced by scar tissue, severely impairing vital liver functions such as detoxification, hormone ...

Liver fibrosis happens when persistent inflammation of the liver causes excessive scar tissue to build up in the organ and nearby blood vessels. The presence of scar tissue can impair overall liver ...

Cirrhosis is the result of long-term liver injury where healthy tissue is replaced with scar tissue (fibrosis). Common causes of cirrhosis include alcohol use disorder (AUD), nonalcoholic fatty liver ...

Owlstone Medical (“Owlstone”), the global leader in Breath Biopsy ® for applications in early disease detection and precision medicine, today announced new data on the development of novel tests for ...

Chemotherapy may contribute to liver damage. If you have cirrhosis or other liver problems, your doctor might consider other cancer treatments. Your liver filters potentially harmful substances from ...

Routine blood tests are increasingly detecting elevated liver enzymes, which may signal liver stress or damage. While mild ...

Using human liver samples and a mouse model of cirrhosis, researchers identified epigenetic overactivation of the inflammatory PAF–PAF-R pathway in hepatic macrophages as a key driver of liver damage.

Macronodular cirrhosis is a type of cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver. It means the person has nodules, or irregular growths of tissue, more than 3 millimeters (mm) wide on the liver. Cirrhosis is ...

When your liver is severely damaged, you can end up with cirrhosis that then contributes to hyponatremia, which is low blood sodium levels. When your liver is damaged, your body repairs the damage by ...

Researchers from Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) in Spain have identified an effective strategy to reduce structural liver damage and improve hepatic vascular function in cirrhosis. The ...