Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) is a major cause of advanced chronic liver disease in
Latin-America, although data on prevalence is limited. Public health policies aimed at …

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of liver disease
worldwide and it ranges from simple steatosis to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCC …

Decreasing graft rejection and increasing graft and patient survival are great challenges
facing liver transplantation (LT). Different T cell subsets participate in the acute cellular …

The significance of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching and preformed donor-specific
antibodies (DSAs) in liver transplantation remains unclear. The aim of this study was to …

A common neuropsychiatric complication of advanced liver disease, hepatic
encephalopathy (HE), impacts the quality of life and length of hospital stays. There is new …

Aims Liver transplantation (LT) for alcoholic liver disease (ALD) remains controversial yet
following transplantation outcomes for patients with this disease are generally similar to …

Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain the hypothetical state of hepatic
tolerance, which is described by eventual imbalances or deregulation in the balance of …

Introduction Inadequate social support is associated with higher mortality both in the general
population and in patients with chronic diseases. There are no studies that have described …

Background. Clinical and molecular mechanisms involved in the cause and time of death of
alcoholic cirrhosis (AC) patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT) are not entirely …

(1) Background: We investigated, for the first time, whether dietary simple sugar intake
affects MELD score changes over time in a cohort of cirrhotic liver transplant candidates.(2) …