What's the difference between hepatorenal and liver?
Hepatorenal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amanita virosa poisoning is a potentially fatal medical emergency which presents as an acute gastroenteritis, progressing to hepatorenal failure.
(2) Three patients with the hepatorenal syndrome were treated with prostaglandin E1 administered through a selective renal arterial catheter.
(3) We conclude that haemodialysis should be considered for treatment of hepatorenal syndrome in selected patients where reversal of liver failure can be expected.
(4) Our findings suggest that decreased "effective" plasma volume may be important in the stimulation of renin release and possibly in the pathophysiology of renal failure in the hepatorenal syndrome.
(5) The principal responses are shock, hypovolemia, insufficiency of respiration and gas exchange, inversion of metabolism, intoxication, intracranial hypertension, the compression-dislocation syndrome, and hepatorenal failure.
(6) The reactions were associated with bacterial infections, neoplasms, hepatorenal failure, acute metabolic disorders and non-malignant blood dyscrasias.
(7) These findings suggest that chronic alcoholism may precipitate pericarditis during the hepatorenal syndrome.
(8) Medullary collecting tubule prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase-positive staining was graded 4+ or 5+ in kidney samples from patients with acute tubular necrosis or acute tubulointerstitial nephritis and from patients with liver failure without the hepatorenal syndrome.
(9) He discusses the mechanism of the prolonged crush syndrome development, complicated with acute renal or hepatorenal insufficiency.
(10) Earlier application of biventricular assist might be effective for biventricular failure with hepatorenal dysfunction.
(11) ; (2) transient neonatal tyrosinemia; (3) hereditary tyrosinosis with hepatorenal dysfunction where elevation of tyrosine and methionine levels in the plasma may be a secondary manifestation of an unknown disease process; and (4) "essential tyrosinemia" or tyrosinosis without hepatorenal dysfunction which may represent a kkrimary fault in the metabolism of tyrosine.A new case of tyrosinosis without hepatorenal dysfunction in a 13-year-old mentally retarded girl is reported.
(12) On the basis of the clinical experience, among the complications of cirrhosis spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, hepatorenal syndrome and hepatocarcinoma appear to have a great prognostic value.
(13) Assumed homozygotes for this gene have only slightly higher enzyme activity than patients with the metabolic disorder hereditary tyrosinemia I (hepatorenal type).
(14) Two patients who developed hepatorenal failure after the misuse of hycanthone are described.
(15) The hospital mortality was 25%, most deaths being due to a low cardiac output causing hepatorenal failure.
(16) In 11 cases including 4 cerebro-hepatorenal syndrome (CHRS), 4 neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy (NALD) and 3 infantile Refsum's disease, the liver peroxisomes could not be detected by electron microscopy.
(17) 2) To what extent does renal function recover after OLTX for hepatorenal syndrome (HRS)?
(18) A large amount of bleeding can cause irreversible shock due to the decreased cardiopulmonary function, and diminished hepatorenal capacity would also be a decisive factor in determining the outcome of the state of shock.
(19) To evaluate possible causes of the diminished prostaglandin production in advanced hepatorenal syndrome, prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase and prostacyclin synthase were localized and semiquantitated by immunofluorescence in postmortem, biopsy and nephrectomy renal tissues.
(20) There was little difference in the hepatorenal functions and perfusate temperatures between the first surgery group and the recurrent cancer group.
Liver
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, lives.
(n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
(n.) One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
(n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
(n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(3) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
(4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(5) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(6) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
(7) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(8) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
(9) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
(10) The effect of 4,4'-methylene bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA), 4,4'-methylene dianiline (MDA) and 4,4'-sulphonyldianiline (Dapsone) in vivo on xenobiotic biotransformation in male rat liver was studied.
(11) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(13) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(14) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
(15) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
(16) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
(17) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
(18) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(19) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(20) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.