Management of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) requires combined efforts of general practitioners, hepatologists, and other experts, Herbert Tilg explains in a Mentoring, Education, and Training Corner article in the August issue of Gastroenterology. NAFLD has become the most common liver disease worldwide. It ranges from simple steatosis in the absence
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Addition of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and mutation analyses to cytology analysis significantly increases the sensitivity of detection of malignancies in biliary strictures, researchers report in the June issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. These techniques can be performed using standard brush samples collected during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, with mutations detected in
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In a bioinformatic search for agents that alter the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-specific gene expression pattern, researchers identified the anthelmintic drug niclosamide as a potential anti-tumor agent, described in the June issue of Gastroenterology. Niclosamide and its ethanolamine salt (NEN), with greater bioavailability, slowed growth of genetically induced liver tumors and
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Almost 20% of patients with liver damage from mushroom (Amanita) poisoning and peak levels of total bilirubin greater than 2 mg/dL require liver transplantation or die, researchers report in the May issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. The authors show that peak level of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) below 4000 IU/L identifies
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Infections are frequent in patients with severe alcoholic liver disease, but are only independently associated with mortality when patients receive prednisolone, researchers report in the April issue of Gastroenterology. This could offset prednisolone’s therapeutic benefit. This study’s senior author, Mark Thursz, discusses the findings in a video abstract. As with
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Researchers describe a rare cause of hemosuccus pancreaticus in a patient with pancreatic cancer. The gastrointestinal bleeding was caused by erosion of pancreatic adenocarcinoma into the colon, they show in the April issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Hemosuccus pancreaticus is defined as hemorrhage from the ampulla of Vater via the pancreatic
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A review article in the March issue of Gastroenterology discusses different hypotheses about the cells responsible for liver tumorigenesis. The article also reviews the different classes of liver tumors, based on the molecular features, and how these affect patient prognosis. Daniela Sia et al describe the distinct molecular and clinical features of hepatocellular
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Extracellular vesicles carry HBV DNA as cargo that can be transmitted to other hepatocytes, researchers report in the March issue of Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Their findings identify an antibody-neutralization–resistant route of HBV infection. Approximately 350 million people are chronically infected by HBV worldwide, and some of these
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A man with sickle cell disease with generalized pain and progressive jaundice originally thought to have cholangiocarcinoma was eventually found to have Rosai-Dorfman disease, researchers report in the February issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Arian Teymoorian et al describe the case of a 38-year-old black man with a history of
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Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is more accurate than transient elastography (TE) in identifying liver fibrosis of stage 1 or more, researchers report in the February issue of Gastroenterology, using biopsy analysis as the standard. They also show that MRI-based proton density fat fraction (MRI-PDFF) analysis is more accurate than TE-based
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Dr. Kristine Novak is the science editor for Gastroenterology and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She has worked as an editor at biomedical research journals and as a science writer for 15 years, covering advances in gastroenterology, hepatology, cancer, immunology, biotechnology, molecular genetics, and clinical trials. She has a PhD in cell biology and an interest in all areas of medical research.
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