SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In patients with minimal hepatic encephalopathy, prophylactic lactulose treatment improved cognition, quality of life, and intestinal microbiota, results of a multicenter, randomized ...
Arun B. Jesudian, MD: Thank you for joining us for this unique AJMC®, MD Magazine®, and Pharmacy Times Peer Exchange titled “Chronic Liver Disease and Improved Outcomes in the Management of Hepatic ...
The study included more than 6,800 patients with cirrhosis - a condition where the liver is scarred from long term damage - and hepatic encephalopathy. The research team's analysis found patients who ...
From January 2008 to September 2009, consecutive cirrhotic patients (age 18–70 years) who never had encephalopathy were enrolled. Cirrhosis was diagnosed on a clinical basis involving laboratory tests ...
Arun B. Jesudian, MD: I think it’s been a really fantastic discussion. I want to close by looking towards the future a little bit. So a couple questions and anybody can chime in. One is this whole gut ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who received oral and enema placebo experienced the highest recurrence of hepatic encephalopathy.
Bausch Health’s gastroenterology business arm, Salix, is using its new spot for Xifaxan to educate patients with cirrhosis of the liver about the risk of overt hepatic encephalopathy (OHE). Up to 80% ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . FMT demonstrated a favorable safety profile with no related adverse or serious adverse events. Hepatic ...
The performance of neurodegenerative biomarkers-neurofilament light chain (NfL), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), tau, and ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCHL1)-in diagnosing minimal ...
Salix Pharmaceuticals, the gastroenterology unit of Bausch Health, is linking up with actor Bellamy Young to raise awareness about hepatic encephalopathy, a brain disease associated with advanced ...
MILAN — Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), also known as intestinal microbiota transplantation, significantly reduced recurrence of hepatic encephalopathy compared with placebo in patients with ...