In chronic hepatitis C, the degree and location of inflammation, foci of necroses and/or apoptosis, steatosis, and fibrosis are each evaluated microscopically. It is the practice of the surgical ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009;3(3):269-291. The combination regimen of prednisone and azathioprine is associated with a lower occurrence of corticosteroid-related side effects than the higher ...

Credit: Getty Images. Although it is generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a case study in Case Reports in Hepatology describes the first instance of ...

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic, progressive liver disease caused by immune system dysregulation that targets the liver. If untreated, AIH can lead to severe complications, including cirrhosis ...

Immunoserological differences were indistinguishable between patients with acute autoimmune hepatitis and patients with chronic autoimmune hepatitis, according to the results of a recently published ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Hepatology, researchers reported that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination could elicit a distinct T cell-dominant immune-mediated ...

The terminology for assessment of chronic viral hepatitis in liver biopsy specimens has become confusing with the proliferation of grading and staging schemes that have paralleled the rise of the ...

Hepatitis refers to any inflammation of the liver caused by five different viruses: hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. The best way you can prevent hepatitis is to stay up ...

The World Health Organisation has announced additional efforts to eliminate hepatitis by 2030. The overall strategy calls for the prevention of new infections through universal implementation of the ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader ...

Hepatitis A, also called hep A, is a contagious liver infection caused by the hepatitis A virus. Some people have only a mild illness that lasts a few weeks. Others have more severe problems that can ...