Choline, an essential nutrient produced in small amounts in the liver and found in foods including eggs, broccoli, beans, meat and poultry, is a vital ingredient for human health. A new study explores that deficiency in dietary choline adversely affects the body and may be a missing piece in the puzzle of Alzheimer's disease.
India bears the burden of a large population suffering from various liver ailments due to changing lifestyles. The challenges of managing these conditions in an optimal manner are many, including limitations of resources, hepatologists, and adequate healthcare facilities. With the Grand Rounds, we have tried to address specialists across, issues that they face in trying to identify and treat Liver diseases: Dr Samir R Shah
As an adverse event, they had developed skin necrosis when due to lack of oxygen/blood, tissue dies. ”Four of these patients were also getting other vasoconstrictors (which narrows blood vessels to prevent bleeding) like noradrenaline. The adverse event has resulted in mortality of these patients." said PGI officials.
The researchers used the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) STARfile to identify livers that had a cumulative age (total initial age at transplant plus post-transplant survival) of at least 100 years. Of 253,406 livers transplanted between 1990-2022, 25 livers met the criteria of being centurion livers those, with a cumulative age over 100 years.
Overall organ donation has less uptake in India, compared to most western countries, and even some in Asia. In India, every year almost 5 lakh people need some form of organ transplant, according to the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO).
In India, one in every four people has high SGPT (liver injury), which equates to 22-25 per cent of the population, and fatty liver disease is on the rise in both rural and urban areas as a result of changing and sedentary lifestyles.
It’s been more than a year since Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic. But the disease continues to surprise the medical community with its unique manifestations.
The Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) started the department of hepatology for treatment for liver diseases.
Recently, the Delhi High Court ruled that minors could donate organs or tissues, unless there is a risk to his or her life in the procedure. Earlier, an authorization committee approved by Delhi Government had refused permission to a minor, aged 17 years and 10 months, to donate part of the liver to her father.
Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva on Wednesday set up an expert medical board to assess any risk to the life of a girl, who wishes to donate part of her liver to her ailing father, if she undergoes the procedure.
Among adults with chronic viral hepatitis at high risk of liver cancer, those who took low-dose aspirin long-term were less likely to develop liver cancer or to die from liver-related causes.
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