Several conditions, such as diabetes and high cholesterol, can lead to fat accumulating around the liver. Addressing these underlying conditions may help to manage symptoms and potentially reverse ...

In addition to being faster and less invasive than a traditional tissue biopsy, the blood test is also potentially more ...

The sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor drug dapagliflozin, widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, also shows improvements for patients with progressive liver disease, finds a ...

To understand the effects of dapagliflozin in patients with MASH, the researchers conducted a study. The 48-week study had 154 participants, who were diagnosed with MASH following liver biopsies ...

Background Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects over 30% of the general population and is ...

Liver biopsy revealed histological evidence of subacute, ... Figure 1: Histologic image from the liver biopsy of a 54-year-old patient with drug-related hepatitis and Gilbert's syndrome (A) ...

In chronic viral hepatitis, liver biopsy is performed to grade and stage liver damage. Liver biopsy samples are usually taken with a needle using a percutaneous procedure. This method produces a ...

According to NHS England, the rollout means that up to 15,000 patients with suspected lung cancer will benefit from the test each year, with the move making the UK health service the first in the ...

Two patients experienced pneumothorax and recovered without sequelae. The median (mean) duration from consent to start of study treatment was 20 (20) days among Bx patients vs. 14 (16) among non Bx ...