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What happens in the liver during cholestasis?
Bile excretion is a major function of the liver to remove endogenous compounds such as bilirubin, and xenobiotics such as drugs from circulation. An impairment of the involved transport system results...
Objectives To test whether ursodeoxycholic acid reduces pruritus in women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, whether early term delivery does not increase the incidence of caesarean section,....
Screening tests are used to identify a condition in people who may have a disease before the symptoms are obvious (early detection). Screening tests may include blood tests, imaging (x-ray or computed...
Two new tests tend to overestimate vitamin D deficiency
Blood tests to measure vitamin D deficiency are among the most frequently ordered tests in medicine. But a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study of two new vitamin D tests found t...
Vitamin D tests are inaccurate
MAYWOOD, Il. -- Blood tests to measure vitamin D deficiency are among the most frequently ordered tests in medicine. But a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study of two new vitamin...
Tests on Day of Discharge Often Never Seen (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Results of tests ordered on the day of a patient's discharge from the hospital made up a disproportionate number of tests that doctors never review, Australian researchers found.
FDA grants Albireo's A4250 orphan-drug designation for treatment of PFIC and PBC
Albireo AB, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in gastroenterology, today announced that A4250 (an inhibitor of the ileal bile acid transporter, IBAT/ASBT) has been granted orphan-drug designati...
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Acute intrahepatic cholestasis accompanied with Chlamydophila pneumoniae infection.
We report a case of Chlamydophila (C.) pneumoniae infection presenting with fever and rapid intrahepatic cholestasis. A 63-year-old man had a week-long history of intermittent high fever and rapidly p...
Graves' disease presenting with severe cholestasis.
Background: Hyperthyroidism has been associated with liver function abnormalities; however, cholestasis as the presenting feature of adolescent Graves' disease has not been previously reported. Patien...
The Pharmacological Management Of Intrahepatic Cholestasis Of Pregnancy.
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy is the most common liver disease occurring in the second half of pregnancy, characterized by pruritus and elevated serum bile acids often coupled to abnormal live...
To evaluate iron biochemistry and contributing liver mechanisms during obstructive cholestasis and pravastatin treatment in rats.
44-year-old woman with elevated liver enzymes and a family history for cholelithiasis.
"Low phospholipid associated cholelithiasis" (LPAC) syndrome is an important differential diagnosis in younger patients with biliary symptoms after cholecystectomy and concomitant elevated serum liver...
