Serious infections significantly increase the mortality risk among adults with chronic liver disease, including those without cirrhosis.

Enforcement of universal screenings would easily prevent sickness, expenses and death but enforcement isn’t easy.

Sources/Disclosures Collapse Source: Flemming JA et al. Among young adults surviving an episode of alcoholic hepatitis, females are at 50% higher risk of developing cirrhosis and decompensation.

Certain conditions, such as hepatitis B and C, can cause post-necrotic cirrhosis. In post-necrotic cirrhosis, the liver has nodules, or fibrous areas of tissue, more than 3 millimeters (mm) wide.

Chronic hepatitis often develops slowly leaving millions of Indians at risk of cirrhosis, liver damage, and cancer. Subtle signs like nausea, fatigue, and abdominal discomfort, are often missed, thus ...

More information: Jing Zhou et al, Antiviral Therapy Favors a Lower Risk of Liver Cirrhosis in HBeAg-negative Chronic Hepatitis B with Normal Alanine Transaminase and HBV DNA Positivity, Journal ...

Cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease characterized by progressive scarring and damage to the liver tissue. Cirrhosis is often the end stage of several liver injuries, like viral hepatitis or fatty ...

Hepatitis D virus is incompetent and requires hepatitis B virus for replication and aggravating liver infection, says gastroenterologist ...

Researchers measured the annual prevalence of cirrhosis, decompensated cirrhosis and HCC in a sample of HCV veterans from 1996-2006. Results demonstrated the number of HCV patients increased from ...