Active clinical trials for "Liver Diseases"

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of weight loss rate on liver steatosis, steatohepatitis, fibrosis and cardiovascular risk at different stages before and after bariatric surgery. The investigators also aim to study the short-term effect of bariatric surgery on gastric cholecystokinin levels before and 10 days after the bariatric surgery.

The purpose of this study is to describe the real world effectiveness of anidulafungin in clinical practice in a large Liver Unit in the United Kingdom.

This study will assess the pharmacokinetics of AFQ056 in subjects with mild, moderate, severe hepatic impairment compared with healthy control subjects.

We hypothesize that exenatide (Byetta), a GLP-1 agonist administered subcutaneously for 24-28 weeks improves liver histology in diabetic patients with biopsy-proven NASH.

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the association between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) by computed tomography (CT) scan and coronary artery disease (CAD) measured by the calcium (CAC) score among HIV-infected persons.

Morphine can induce constriction of sphincter of oddi and glucagon can facilitate bile secretion and dilatation of bile duct. We conduct this randomized double blinded study to evaluate the effect of enhancement in MRCP using intravenous morphine and glucagon.

To determine the prevalence of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) in a large cohort of hemophiliacs and to elucidate the role of HDV in the development and progression of liver disease in this population.

To compare the clinical, biochemical, and histological status of Non-A, Non-B post-transfusion hepatitis patients with that of patients who did not develop post-transfusion hepatitis.

The purpose of this study was to confirm the presence of specific gut microbiota observed in patients with sarcopenia among patients who agreed to analyze gut microbiota through stool among multi-center chronic liver disease cohort patients.

Several studies using different methodological approach have revealed incomplete, old and conflicting data on the course of hepatobiliary manifestations after surgery. authors conducted a prospective observational study to evaluate the role of LRP on the course of hepatobiliary manifestations for a better knowledge of these manifestations that is necessary to improve their management.also, to evaluate the role of surgery on prevention of liver damage from progression of the disease.