Pancreatic insufficiency and a history of meconium ileus were independently associated with an increased prevalence of liver disease, whereas age at diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, gender ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF ... CF can affect bile flow, resulting in conditions such as cirrhosis (advanced liver scarring) and portal hypertension (high blood pressure in the liver’s veins).

Burroughs, F.Med.Sci.; Amar P. Dhillon, M.D. Assessment of hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis is based on histologic examination. Needle biopsies of sufficient length are generally considered ...

Hepatitis B or C, heavy drinking, and other causes can lead to long-term damage to your liver. Two terms used to describe this are fibrosis and cirrhosis. Fibrosis means that healthy liver tissue is ...

Cirrhosis is the severe scarring or fibrosis of the liver. It happens in the late stage of liver disease and other conditions that involve liver damage. The scarring that occurs with cirrhosis is ...

As there are no effective drugs to treat cirrhosis, suppressing the activation of the stellate cells is considered as a way of controlling the progression of liver fibrosis. It is estimated that ...

"Our north star for more than 20 years has been to address the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis, treat more people with this disease, and bring more people to normal levels of CFTR function ...

Burroughs, F.Med.Sci.; Amar P. Dhillon, M.D. The liver biopsy specimen represents valuable material for the assessment of fibrosis and cirrhosis. Despite limitations related to sampling and ...