Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic fibroinflammatory syndrome involving the biliary tract, often accompanied by inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This syndrome is a prototype disease linking chronic inflammation to carcinogenesis. Indeed, PSC is associated with an increased risk of ch
Efficacy of bezafibrate in a patient with primary sclerosing cholangitis
โ Scribed by Takeshi Kurihara; Atsushi Maeda; Mutsuo Shigemoto; Katsuko Yamashita; Naoyuki Kamatani
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Volume
- 38
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is an idiopathic chronic cholestatic liver disease characterized by inflammatory destruction of the biliary tree. It slowly progresses, resulting in biliary fibrosis and obliteration leading to end-stage liver disease. The most feared complication of PSC is the d
Patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) may develop and bleed from esophageal varices. However, the exact prevalence of esophageal varices in patients with PSC remains unknown and potential predictors of esophageal varices in this population have not been identified. Our aim was to determ