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Living and Coping with Strabismus as an Adult

Despite much research on the psychosocial impact of adult strabismus, some employing standardised measures, coping seems poorly delineated.

Can Periodic Surveillance for Metastases Improve Clinical Outcome in Uveal Melanoma? Moving Towards International Guidelines

Uveal melanoma is a rare disease with a predominant propensity for liver metastasis. Prognosis in the metastatic setting is poor, and no treatments…

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Towards a Standardised Method to Acquire and Store Liver Samples and Guidelines to Improve Quality Control and Exchange of Relative Expression Data

The current ‘state-of-the-art’ molecular techniques are extremely sensitive and consequently prone to false results. Even more so than in the past…

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Viral Proteins Mediate Upregulation of Negative Regulatory Factors Causing Down-Modulated Dendritic Cell Functions In Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Stunted cellular immune response against a narrow range of epitopes is the hallmark of chronic hepatitis C infection, but the underneath molecular…

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Management of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Liver Transplant Recipients

Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related liver disease is a common indication for liver transplantation (LT) in Asian countries. When left untreated, the overall…

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IL28B Polymorphisms in Interferon-Treated Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B

Pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN) may achieve a sustained off-treatment response in 20-30% of the patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB).

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Cellular Consequences of Z Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Accumulation and Prospects for Therapy

The Z variant (Glu342Lys) of α1-antitrypsin polymerises and accumulates in the hepatocyte endoplasmic reticulum predisposing to neonatal hepatitis…

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Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure: Applying the PIRO Concept

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), a clinical syndrome associated with a dismal prognosis, occurs acutely in previously stable cirrhotic patients.

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Adrenal Insufficiency (AI) in Cirrhosis

Adrenal dysfunction or insufficiency (AI) in cirrhosis, also described as hepato-adrenal syndrome, is an only recently recognised entity.

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Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Paradigm Shift

The most recent understanding of the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is that heterogeneous precipitating factors cause a low-grade cerebral…