Introduction: Liver cirrhosis (LC) constitutes one of the main 10 causes of death worldwide.
LC has a characteristic asymptomatic compensated phase followed by a progressive …

Liver cirrhosis (LC) is an inflammatory process associated with impaired functions in
adaptive and innate immune responses at both systemic and local levels, also referred as …

METHODS: In 45 patients with advanced postalcoholic liver cirrhosis (aged 45±14 years)
and in 25 healthy volunteers (aged 38±5 years), the percentage of phagocytizing cells after …

Neutrophils are the largest population of leucocytes and are among the first cells of the
innate immune system to fight against intruding pathogens. Cirrhotic patients' neutrophils …

Abstract Background and Aims Acute liver failure (ALF) is characterized by significant
changes in the hemostatic system and by systemic inflammation. The formation of neutrophil …

Objective Neutrophils are able to form 'neutrophil extracellular traps'(NETs), which they use
to trap and kill pathogens such as bacteria and fungi at the foci of infection. This …

Background/Aim: Severe sepsis is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates.
Inflammation and coagulation play pivotal roles in the pathogenesis of sepsis leading to …

Systemic immune cell dysfunction is a typical feature of liver diseases and increases the risk
of bacterial infection, especially spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. We evaluated functional …

Background Patients with cirrhosis are susceptible to sepsis, pre‐disposing to the
development of encephalopathy, bleeding and organ dysfunction with associated high …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Deranged neutrophil function in alcoholic hepatitis has been
shown to be transmissible to normal neutrophils by patient plasma. The aims of this study …