Hepatic fibrosis is a reversible wound healing response characterized by accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM), or "scar," that follows chronic but not self-limited liver disease. The ECM ...
What is hepatic arterial therapy? Let's say this liver has 3 metastases in it. You surgically those 3 and then exactly what would you do? Nancy Kemeny, MD Well then we put this pump, which is a ...
As noted above, stellate cell activation is the central event in hepatic fibrosis. Activation consists of 2 major phases: (1) initiation (also called apreinflammatory stage) and (2) perpetuation ...