Liver cirrhosis can develop as a consequence of chronic hepatitis, a fatty liver or alcohol abuse. Liver cells are destroyed and replaced by connective tissue.
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Symptoms of liver cirrhosis may include dysfunctions of blood clotting and of the detoxification function as well as yellowing of the skin, weight loss and itching. The regeneration of tissue can lead to liver cancer.
The discovery of an unusual hepatitis B virus from shrews offers new opportunities of better understanding the chronic progression of the disease. International research teams were able to demonstrate
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The largest trial on the treatment of aggressive hepatitis D (delta) worldwide was conducted at the German Liver Foundation’s HepNet Study House. It shows that an extension of treatment duration has
Professor Markus Cornberg is Clinical Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and Co-Director of the Centre for Individualised Infection Medicine (CiiM). He and his translational research group provide the necessary link between hospitals, the HZI, the HepNet Study-House trial ...
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The hepatitis C research success story is also his story: Ralf Bartenschlager, a virologist at the Heidelberg Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University, has been researching the hepatitis C virus for
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