If you have cirrhosis, you may need to take lactulose long-term. Cirrhosis is a condition where your liver has become severely scarred. This damage is permanent and greatly affects your liver’s ...

Aug. 21, 2024 — A research team has shown the benefits of camu-camu on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This exotic fruit reduces liver fat ... Liver Transplant Outperforms Other Therapies for ...

Content developed independently by our editors and supported by our partners. You may only associate your liver with breaking down alcohol, but this organ—the largest in the body—plays a role ...

Itching (pruritus) is one symptom of chronic liver disease, though not everyone with liver disease develops it. You might have a localized itch, such as on your lower arm, or it might be an all ...

The hormone insulin helps get the glucose from digested food into your cells. People with fatty liver disease often have a condition called insulin resistance. That means your body makes insulin ...

Fatty liver disease may contribute to fragmented sleep patterns, robbing already sick people of good rest, a new study finds. These folks woke up more often in the night, and then lay awake longer ...

Liver disease, which is treatable when discovered early, often goes undetected until late stages, but a new study revealed that an algorithm fueled by artificial intelligence can accurately detect ...

Furthermore, conditions such as bacterial overgrowth, coexistent small intestinal disease (inflammatory bowel ... of various proteins from the affected liver, the diminished storage capacity ...

One drug, resmetirom (Rezdiffra), is approved to treat the advanced stage of the condition, called metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease (MASH) with greater degrees of fibrosis.

Also known as hepatic cysts, they can develop before birth or later in life due to infection or genetic disorders like polycystic liver disease (PLD). Between 2.5% and 18% of people are affected by ...

This study shows that the incidence of hepatic encephalopathy was lower in cirrhotic patients with upper gastrointestinal bleed treated with lactulose as compared with patients not treated with ...