Metabolic factors affecting hepatocellular carcinoma in steatohepatitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

With the rising prevalence of alcoholism, obesity and metabolic syndrome, steatohepatitis will become the leading cause of end-stage liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States by 2025. Patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and alcoholic liver disease have similar clinical and histopathological presentations, whether these similarities persist in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and alcoholic liver disease patients with hepatocellular carcinoma remains unknown.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of the clinical features of adult patients from a large transplant center who underwent liver transplantation for steatohepatitis due to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and alcoholic causes (alcoholic liver disease) between 1/1/02 and 1/1/12 was p

SUBMITTER: Zarrinpar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6617514 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature