Relationship between portal chronic inflammation and disease severity in paediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-146

  Alisi, Anna ^a   Bedogni, Giorgio ^b,c   De Vito, Rita ^a   Comparcola, Donatella ^a   Manco, Melania ^a   Nobili, Valerio ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Liver Research Center   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Non alcoholic fatty liver disease; Non alcoholic steato hepatitis; Portal inflammation

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LIVER ENZYME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY COMPOSITION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ITALY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PEDIATRICS; PORTAL CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STEATOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; ITALY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 78651440632     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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