Mar 4, 2025 · New research reveals distinct epidemiological trends in liver cancer across Mexico, with gender and regional variations shaping disease presentation.

Mar 20, 2025 · SLD is a silent disease, and patients are most often detected due to abnormal liver chemistries or a finding of steatosis in the liver from an ultrasound performed for another indication.

Jan 14, 2025 · Understanding the association between excess body weight and gastrointestinal liver complications is important because we do have data that suggest that weight loss can improve these outcomes.

Mar 13, 2025 · Laparoscopic liver resection in posterosuperior segments was linked to a shorter functional recovery time and postoperative hospital stay than open surgery in a recent clinical trial.

Feb 26, 2025 · Bariatric surgery reduces the progression to decompensated cirrhosis and the risk for major adverse liver outcomes, such as cancer and transplantation.

Nov 7, 2024 · He isn’t using the test to catch someone in a lie about their alcohol use. He tells patients that he orders this test for all patients with liver inflammation, because alcohol is a common cause.

Aug 2, 2012 · A liver span less than 9 cm suggests cirrhosis. Be aware that pleural effusion and right lower lobe pneumonia can give a false sense of the upper liver margin.

Mar 6, 2025 · A large population-based cohort study reports that using GLP-1 RAs significantly reduces the risk for cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with MASLD.

Feb 26, 2025 · The global rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes is fueling an epidemic of MASLD and MASH, now recognized as the leading cause of liver-related complications.

Jan 2, 2025 · Biomarker staging of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C was cost effective, but so was initiating treatment without testing.