To the editor
Simon Gelman, Fumio Nomura, Hitoshi Hatano, Kunihiko Ohnishi, Kunio Okuda – 1 January 1986
Assessment of short‐term prognosis after variceal bleeding in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis by early measurement of portohepatic gradient
J. P. Vinel, J. Cassigneul, M. Levade, J. J. Voigt, J. P. Pascal – 1 January 1986 – Seventy‐two consecutively admitted patients with biopsy‐proven alcoholic cirrhosis and a bleeding episode endoscopically proven to originate from ruptured esophageal varices were studied. Hemodynamic assessment was performedwithin 48 hr of admission using the transjugular approach.
Digestive Disease Week
1 January 1986
Branched chain amino acids in hepatic encephalopathy
Cerra Fb, Cheung Nk, Fischer Je, Harold O. Conn – 1 January 1986 – Seventy‐five patients with acute hepatic decompensation superimposed on chronic alcoholic cirrhosis were prospectively randomized for a blinded trial of the treatment of hepatic.
Hepatology—the next five years
Steven Schenker – 1 January 1986
Masthead
1 January 1986
Periductal fibrosis and lipocytes (fat‐storing cells or ito cells) during biliary atresia in the lamprey
Kazuhide Yamamoto, Patricia A. Sargent, Murray M. Fisher, John H. Youson – 1 January 1986 – Transmission and scanning electron microscopy were utilized to follow the degeneration of bile ducts of lampreys (Petromyzon marinus L.) during metamorphosis. The convoluted bile ducts of larval lampreys are surrounded by rich sinusoids, but this intimate biliovascular relationship is lost during metamorphosis because the bile duct degeneration is accompanied by the development of thick periductal fibrosis.
Terlipressin in bleeding esophageal varices: A placebo‐controlled, double‐blind study
Siegfried Walker M.D., Adolf Stiehl, Richard Raedsch, Burkhard Kommerell – 1 January 1986 – The effect of terlipressin (N‐α‐triglycyl‐8‐lysinevasopressin) in bleeding esophageal varices was evaluated in a prospective placebo‐controlled study. Fifty bleeding episodes from esophagealvarices in 34 patients were randomized. Standard therapy with transfusions, fluid and electrolyte correction, and lactulose was performed in both groups. Balloon tamponade was used in 20 bleeding episodes in the terlipressin group and in 19 bleeding episodes in the control group.
Hepatic hemodynamics and oxygen consumption in alcoholic fatty liver assessed by organ‐reflectance spectrophotometry and the hydrogen clearance method
Akinori Kasahara, Norio Hayashi, Kazuhei Kurosawa, Yutaka Sasaki, Nobuhiro Sato, Takenobu Kamada – 1 January 1986 – Hepatic blood flow and estimated hepatic oxygen consumption were studied in rats treated chronically with ethanol by organ‐reflectance spectrophotometry and the hydrogen clearance method.