The successful use of orthotopic liver transplantation in fulminant hepatic failure has created
a need for early prognostic indicators to select the patients most likely to benefit at a time …

The clinical features at the time of presentation and the outcome in 126 patients with primary
sclerosing cholangitis were studied to clarify the natural history and prognosis in …

After nearly 18 years of research, the association between human leukocyte antigens A1-B8-
DR3 and autoimmune chronic active hepatitis still provokes debate. The principal reasons …

The value of coagulation factor V and VIII/V levels as prognostic indicators was assessed in
27 patients with fulminant hepatic failure and compared with other predictive indices …

BACKGROUND: The treatment for endstage cystic fibrosis is, where appropriate, double-
lung, heart-lung or, occasionally, heart-lung-liver transplantation. Optimising the timing of …

Previous studies based on serological HLA phenotyping have implicated genes in the HLA
class II region in susceptibility to and protection from primary sclerosing cholangitis. In a …

Centrilobular necrosis (CLN) is a histological finding often encountered after orthotopic liver
transplantation, but its pathogenesis is still unknown. In this study, the significance of CLN …

To establish the potential value of quantitative tests of liver function following orthotopic liver
transplantation (OLT), a total of 100 determinations of caffeine clearance (CafCl) and …

The relationship between levels of coagulation Factors V and VIII and disease severity was
evaluated in 33 patients with alcoholic liver disease, and related to outcome in the 23 with …

Caffeine clearance and galactose elimination capacity were evaluated in parallel on
admission and during the clinical course of 16 patients with fulminant hepatic failure. On …