The major cystic lesions of the liver are simple cysts, hydatid cysts, polycystic liver disease, cystadenoma, and cystadenocarcinoma. Ultrasound has 90% sensitivity and specificity for diagnosis of ...

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a zoonotic disease ... In light of these findings, cholesterol plays an important role in the immunopathology of hydatid disease, emphasizing that cholesterol might also ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Scientists at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker School of Medicine (WMed) have made a ...

June 10, 2024 — Scientists have grown 'mini-guts' in the lab to help understand Crohn's disease, showing that 'switches' that modify DNA in gut cells play an ... Major Cause of Inflammatory ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent ...

Morning Coffee May Protect the Heart Better Than All-Day Coffee Drinking Jan. 7, 2025 — People who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a lower ...

Liver disease is any disease that directly affects your liver. Unlike acute liver failure, which happens suddenly, liver disease progresses slowly over time. Some types of liver disease ...

The push to regard addiction as a disease is well-intentioned—driven by a desire to lessen stigma—but fails to account for the many facets and facts of the condition. Worse, it robs sufferers ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of intestinal disorders that cause prolonged inflammation of the digestive tract. It can include ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease.

Objective: Conventional fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) for cystic thyroid nodules (CTNs) has a high rate of nondiagnostic and false-negative results. Ultrasound-guided FNAB (UG-FNAB ...