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Effectiveness of Hepatitis B Vaccine and Tenofovir
Is there an effective vaccine available for Hepatitis B, and how effective is Tenofovir as a treatment for chronic Hepatitis B?
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Why is cirrhosis not more common due to sugar consumption?
I saw a 55 year old celebrity died from Cirrhosis. Cirrhosis happens after Steatosis.
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Daily consumption of 30 to 50 gram of alcohol for over five years can cause alcoholic ...
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Will PTFE scratched off a Teflon non-stick pan accumulate in the body or pass through the digestive tract unaltered?
I believe to have seen conflicting information regarding the question of whether cooking with PTFE coated kitchenware can be unhealthy.
For the purpose of this question, let's assume the pan is not ...
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Do sugar alcohols cause cancer according to the latest research?
According to this Upstate article, recent research has shown that there is a link between ingredients in sweeteners (sugar alcohols) and liver cancer. One of the coauthors has made several strong ...
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Why is spider angioma more frequently seen in the distribution of superior vena cava?
From textbooks and my personal experience, spider angioma is more frequently seen in upper body. But is there any research for the root cause of this phenomenon? I've searched but haven't seen ...
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What advances have been made in liver transplants in the past 30 years?
Imagine someone needing a liver transplant 30 years ago versus today. What advances have been made to make the procedure safer now?
My research
I know that the constant in all organ transplants has ...
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Diabetes Type 1: Why does glucagon help hypoglycemia?
First some facts:
Glucagon is produced in the pancreas for both humans with and without diabetes type 1
If a non-diabetic human has hypoglycemia, the pancreas produces glucagon that builds glucose in ...
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How many calories can the average human absorb in one day?
While researching the maximum amount of weight a person can safely lose per week, I came across an interesting factoid that basically stated that the maximum fat reserves that can be processed per day ...
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Rate of Liver Lesion formation following Cholecystectomy
I am currently reading up on liver lesions, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. I am particularly interested in the rates of formation. For instance cancerous lesions can appear rapidly while more chronic ...
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Why liver damage from Isoniazid (medicine of TB) is more in Africans? What is it that make Caucasians more immune?
In this article it has been mentioned twice that Africans are more prone to liver damage by Isoniazid:
Other risk factors are preexisting liver disease (hepatitis B or C),
concurrent use of rifampin ...
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Can bloodstreams be interconnected?
Novice question. Say we have a mother and child with known exactly matching blood types. The mother suffers from a bad liver and a bacteria infection in the lung along with antibiotics is causing her ...
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Is ethanol toxic to liver, in the absence of ethanol metabolites resulting from inhibiting alcohol dehydrogenase(ADH) enzyme?
Humans have been drinking alcohol for its intoxicating effects. For intoxication a small amount of alcohol is sufficient, but because the liver is very efficient in filtering it, we need more of it to ...
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Can the liver not recover from cirrhosis caused by alcohol related damage?
The liver can regenerate itself if part of it is damaged or cut away in surgery (Michalopoulos, 2007).
I have been looking at liver damage caused by excess alcohol consumption and according to the NHS,...
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Could a living donor donate their liver multiple times in their lifetime?
While meditating about becoming a living organ donor, I was quite surprised to come across the following:
Within eight weeks, both the donor's and the recipient's livers will
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What are the likeliest causes for rising indirect bilirubin levels?
All the following data is from a task a professor gave me and is not connected to a true patient.
Patient's bilirubin level is first 28 micromole/litre and direct bilirubin level is 8 micromole/litre. ...
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