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Liver Health: How to Reduce SGOT and SGPT Levels

Public Health,Liver Update

Elevated levels of SGOT and SGPT can be a cause for concern as it is an indication of liver damage or disease, resulting in c...

Role of Insulin Resistance in Liver Care

Liver Update

Insulin resistance, a metabolic condition where cells become less responsive to insulin, holds significant implications for l...

The Role of Antioxidants in Liver Care

Liver Update

Antioxidants play a pivotal role in liver care by safeguarding this vital organ from oxidative stress and damage. They neutra...

Nutrition In Liver Care For Geriatric Care

Liver Update

Liver care in geriatric patients is paramount due to the natural aging process, which can affect liver function and increase ...

Nutrition in Liver Care During Pregnancy

Liver Update

Maintaining optimal nutrition during pregnancy is essential for both the mother's and baby's health. Liver care is crucial as...

Nutrition In Liver Care Wsr To Pediatric Populations

Nutrition In Liver Care Wsr To Pediatric Populatio...

Liver Update

Nutrition plays a crucial role in liver care, especially when it comes to pediatric populations. The liver plays a vital role...

Detoxification and Metabolism: How the Liver Processes Toxins

Detoxification and Metabolism: How the Liver Proce...

Public Health & Prevention,Public Health,Liver Update

Welcome to our blog!In the intricate symphony of our body's functions, the liver is pivotal as the ultimate multitasker. Ofte...

The Liver's Role in Post-convalescence

Liver Update

The liver plays a crucial role in various physiological processes, including post-convalescence, which refers to the period o...

The Livers Role in Febrile Conditions and Its Management

The Livers Role in Febrile Conditions and Its Mana...

Liver Update

Discover the vital connection between the liver and febrile conditions in our latest post. From understanding the impact of i...

The Liver, Appetite, and Optimal Growth of Children

The Liver, Appetite, and Optimal Growth of Childre...

Liver Update

The liver plays a vital role in appetite regulation and the optimal growth of children. It is equally essential to prioritize...

The Liver's Role in Appetite

Liver Update

The liver acts as a fantastic communicator, collaborating with the brain and gastrointestinal tract to regulate our appetite ...

Management of Antitubercular Drug-induced Hepatoxicity

Management of Antitubercular Drug-induced Hepatoxi...

Liver Update

Antitubercular drug-induced hepatotoxicity is referred to liver damage that occurs due to medications used to treat tuberculo...

DILI in Antitubercular Treatment - Current Challenges

DILI in Antitubercular Treatment - Current Challen...

Liver Update

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a significant infectious disease in many developing countries, and among these countries, I...

Management of Drug-induced Liver Injury

Liver Update

Management of Drug-induced Liver Injury...

Drug-induced Liver Injury

Liver Update

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a major problem faced by both healthcare providers as well as patients.  Management ...

Liver Disease in Menopause

Liver Update

Menopause is a significant phase in a woman's life, and understanding its impact on liver health is crucial for overall well-...

Association of Liver Health in Pregnancy

Liver Update

During pregnancy, a woman's body undergoes numerous physiological changes to support the developing fetus. These changes can ...

Liver Health in Menarche and The Effect of Hormones

Liver Health in Menarche and The Effect of Hormone...

Liver Update

Liver health in menarche refers to the functioning and condition of the liver during a young woman's first menstrual period. ...

Understanding Liver Diseases In Women

Liver Update

The liver is a remarkably resilient organ and can continue to function even when up to 80% of the organ is damaged. But as li...

Pediatric Fatty Liver Disease

Liver Update

In the pediatric population, the prevalence of NAFLD is on the rise. This increasing prevalence is in concert with the global...

Liver Diseases with Chronicity in Children

Liver Update

Liver diseases with chronicity imply a condition that results in a longstanding irreversible change in the hepatic structure....

Managing Liver Disorders in The Geriatric Patients

Liver Update

Due to structural changes or functional impairment, aging is a condition in which a person progressively loses the ability to...

Infectious Disease of the Liver in Geriatric Patients

Infectious Disease of the Liver in Geriatric Patie...

Liver Update

Age is an important factor when treating chronic HCV infection. The prevalence of anti-HCV seropositivity tends to be higher ...

Liver diseases in the Geriatric Population Prevalence, Pathophysiology, and Diagnosis

Liver diseases in the Geriatric Population Prevale...

Liver Update

The liver has a noteworthy ability to regenerate and maintain function during the aging process. Other significant risk facto...

Acute Liver Failure in Children

Liver Update

In children, the most common clinical presentations of ALF are progressive jaundice, lack of appetite, malaise, viral prodrom...

Detecting Liver Diseases in Children.

Liver Update

Children are a miniature version of adults. As a result, doctors and healthcare workers should have a deeper understanding of...

Prevalence of Liver Diseases in Children

Liver Update

The prevalence of liver diseases in children is unknown because they are often under-recognized or diagnosed late. The main r...

Liver Diseases in Special Populations (Children, Elderly, and Pregnancy)

Liver Diseases in Special Populations (Children, E...

Liver Update

Management of liver disease in adults is a challenging task, but managing it in special populations, such as pregnant women, ...

Dietetics for Patients with Liver Disease and Diabetes

Dietetics for Patients with Liver Disease and Diab...

Liver Update

It is a well-known fact that diabetes is a major risk factor for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, which if left untreated m...

Treatment of Diabetes in Individuals with Chronic Liver Disease

Treatment of Diabetes in Individuals with Chronic ...

Liver Update

Diabetes and chronic liver disease are common long-term conditions in the developed and developing world. The two condition...

Diabetes and Chronic Liver Disease

Liver Update

The liver is one of the major targets for insulin and its counterregulatory hormones, such as glucagon. Overall, glucose into...

Liver and Diabetes: A Vicious Cycle

Liver Update

It is very important to control the blood sugar level for a healthy liver as diabetes can occur due to liver disease and vice...

Management of NAFLD and NASH

Liver Update

NAFLD and NASH are metabolic disorders of hepatic origin. Thus, the management and treatment plan for NAFLD and NASH should...

Role of de novo Lipogenesis and Hepatic Stellate Cells in Liver Diseases

Role of de novo Lipogenesis and Hepatic Stellate C...

Liver Update

Most liver diseases, especially NAFLD, are characterized by an abnormal accumulation of triglyceride in hepatocytes. Hepatic ...

Understanding and Differentiating! NAFLD and NASH

Liver Update

There are many types of liver diseases such as fatty liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer, alcoholic liver disease, NAFLD, hepatiti...

Metabolic Syndrome - A Serious Underlying Pathophysiology

Metabolic Syndrome - A Serious Underlying Pathophy...

Liver Update

Metabolic syndrome is an accumulation of several disorders, which together raise the risk of an individual developing atheros...

Treatment of Alcoholic Liver Injury

Liver Update

Treatment option for alcoholic liver disease is based on two goals. Firstly, abstinence from alcohol and Secondly, ways to pr...

Diagnosis of Alcoholic Liver Disease

Liver Update

The spectrum of Alcoholic Liver Disease can include simple hepatic steatosis, acute alcoholic hepatitis, and alcoholic cirrho...

Pathophysiology of Alcoholic Liver Diseases

Liver Update

The pathogenesis of ALD can be conceptually divided into 1) Ethanol mediated liver injury, 2) Inflammatory Immune response to...

Prevalence and Risk Factors for Alcoholic Liver Diseases

Prevalence and Risk Factors for Alcoholic Liver Di...

Liver Update

As we all know liver damage can affect the whole body. The liver’s job is to break down alcohol. Alcoholic liver disease ...

Management of Hepatitis Options and Challenges

Liver Update

Viral hepatitis is a public health problem in India. Out of the five variants, hepatitis B and C infections can lead to chron...

Therapeutic Options For Hepatitis with Special Reference to Hepatitis - B

Therapeutic Options For Hepatitis with Special Ref...

Liver Update

Hepatitis is an epidemic condition that has a significant burden on the healthcare system. It can be caused by a viral infect...

Pathogenesis of Hepatitis

Liver Update

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that during 2019, 296 million people were living with hepatitis B along with 58...

Hepatitis - Prevalence and Endemicity in India

Liver Update

Viral hepatitis is a cause of major health care burden in India and is now equated as a threat comparable to the “big three...

Key Findings in Liver Diseases for Practitioners

Liver Update

Lifestyle changes, drug use, toxins, and infections may lead to malfunctioning of liver function. A lack of awareness and acc...

When to Suspect Liver Disorder

Liver Update

India contributed about 20.1% of deaths, out of the two million global liver disease-related deaths in 2021. With such high p...

Prevalence of Liver Disorders in India

Liver Update

The burden of liver disease in India is difficult to assess since the epidemiological data are not robust as in most parts of...

Liver- A Pivot of Metabolism

Liver Update

Do you know that every 1 in 5 Indians is suffering from liver disease? The liver, a powerhouse of body function, is facing th...

COVID 19 and Hepatitis

Liver Update

Acute liver injury and and hepatic impairment has been frequently seen in patients with COVID 19. Liver involvement has also ...

Management of Hepatitis

Liver Update

What are the ways to prevent and treat hepatitis? Can hepatitis be cured? In this video on 'Management of Hepatitis,' Dr Neer...

Hepatitis in Special Population

Liver Update

Dr Neerav Goyal is the head of the Liver Transplant and HPB Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, In this video he talks abo...

Disease Progression in Hepatitis

Liver Update

In this video, Dr. Neerav Goyal has discussed the clinical progression of Hepatitis and challenges in its management. Watch t...

Hepatitis

Liver Update

Dr Neerav Goyal opines, 'Hepatitis is a curse present in the society!' In this video he talks about different types of hepati...

COVID 19 and NAFLD

Liver Update

COVID 19 disease severity is increased in individuals with comorbidities, including NAFLD. Watch this video by Dr. Sandeep Sa...

Management of NAFLD and NASH

Liver Update

There are no FDA-approved therapies for NASH. The key to management is weight management through diet and exercise and lifest...

NAFLD and NASH in Risk Group's

Liver Update

Several risk factors may bring about the progression of liver disease from NAFLD to NASH to subsequent cirrhosis. These inclu...

Understanding NAFLD & NASH

Liver Update

The spectrum of NAFLD encompasses simple steatosis, NASH, NASH-related cirrhosis of liver, and NASH-related hepatocellular ca...

Management of Antitubercular Drug Induced Hepatoxicity

Management of Antitubercular Drug Induced Hepatoxi...

Liver Update

Is it necessary to screen patients for existing liver diseases or know their complete history before starting them on antitub...

DILI From Antitubercular Treatment

Liver Update

Statistics show that the most common cause of DILI in India is antitubercular drugs. In this video, Dr. Lalit Shimpi has spok...

Management of Drug Induced Liver Injury

Liver Update

Management of drug-induced liver injury is generally symptomatic. Guideline-based treatment can be adopted in clinical practi...

Drug Induced Liver Injury

Liver Update

Drug induced liver injury is common in occurrence and medications from all pathies including alternative medicines can cause ...

Liver Disease in Menopause

Liver Update

Many physiologic and biochemical changes occur during menopause. These changes affect the functioning of the liver and also m...

Liver Health in Menarche & Effect of Hormones

Liver Update

Chances of metabolic complications are much raised in women during menarche. To understand the linkage of NAFLD, metabolic co...

Understanding Liver Diseases In Women

Liver Update

Women are at an increased risk of acquiring liver diseases as compared to their male counterparts. However, they are also les...

Managing Liver Disorders in the Geriatric Patient

Liver Update

Liver disorder management in the geriatric population is characterized into NAFLD, infective liver disease, and alcoholic liv...

Infectious Disease of the Liver in the Geriatric Patients

Infectious Disease of the Liver in the Geriatric P...

Liver Update

Geriatric patients develop several infectious diseases of the liver such as hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. In thi...

Pathophysiology and Diagnosis of Liver Diseases in the Geriatric Population

Pathophysiology and Diagnosis of Liver Diseases in...

Liver Update

The very old are more likely to have signs of severe liver disease on presentation than the young. The alcohol metabolism abi...

Liver Care In Geriatric Population

Liver Update

A substantial percentage of morbidity and mortality is attributable to liver disease in the elderly. The number of patients o...

Managing NAFLD in Obese Individuals

Liver Update

Successful treatment of NASH may curb the progression of NAFLD to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma; in this video, Dr. ...

Risk of Liver Fibrosis Progression From Fatty Liver in Obesity

Risk of Liver Fibrosis Progression From Fatty Live...

Liver Update

Risk of fatty liver disease progression in obesity vis a vis alcohol consumption. Watch this video by Dr J S Rajkumar to unde...

Liver Disease in Obesity

Liver Update

Obesity along with alcohol abuse is an underlying factor in fatty liver disease. Abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome cau...

Pathogenesis of Metabolic Liver Disease

Liver Update

Metabolic liver disease usually indicates disease of the liver that occurs secondary to metabolic changes. In this video, Dr....

Treatment Of Diabetes In Individuals With Chronic Liver Disease

Treatment Of Diabetes In Individuals With Chronic ...

Liver Update

Chronic liver disease increases the susceptibility to hyperglycemia. However, early intervention with lifestyle modification ...

Diabetes and Chronic Liver Disease

Liver Update

Chronic liver disease may lead to diabetes. To know the relationship between the two, watch this video where Dr V Mohan expla...

Liver and Diabetes: A Vicious Cycle

Liver Update

Liver disease and diabetes share a bidirectional relationship with common risk factors. In this video, Dr V Mohan talks about...

Metabolic Syndrome and Chronic Liver Disease

Liver Update

Metabolic syndrome is emerging as a very important sub-Specialty of diabetology and endocrinology. In this video, acclaimed d...

Pediatric Fatty Liver Disease

Liver Update

Non alcoholic fatty liver disease is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in children. In this video Dr Aabha Nagral ta...

Liver Diseases with Chronicity in Children

Liver Update

Classifying liver diseases in the chronic setting in children. In this video Dr Aabha Nagral gives in-depth insight in the cl...

Acute Liver Failure in Children

Liver Update

Acute liver failure is identified in children with evidence of liver dysfunction within 8 weeks of onset of symptoms. Know mo...

Detecting Liver Diseases in Children

Liver Update

Children are not miniature adults, and hence it is important to understand the diagnosis and management of pediatric liver di...

Treatment of Alcohol related Liver Injury

Liver Update

Complete abstinence from alcohol, high protein diet and herbal liver supplements are important in the treatment of alcohol in...

Diagnosis of Alcoholic Liver Disease

Liver Update

Alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and alcoholic cirrhosis are the three forms of alcoholic liver diseases. Detailed...

Pathophysiology of Alcoholic Liver Diseases

Liver Update

The sequel of events that mark the transformation of fatty liver to cirrhosis involve various cellular enzymes. In this video...

Prevalence and Risk Factors for Alcohol Related Liver Diseases

Prevalence and Risk Factors for Alcohol Related Li...

Liver Update

Alcohol consumption is related to several liver diseases including fatty liver, liver cirrhosis and even liver cancer. Additi...

Role of Nutrition in Fatty Liver

Liver Update

Lifestyle modification is the cornerstone in the management of fatty liver! Know more about diet control, exercise and other ...

Pharmacological Therapy in NAFLD/NASH

Liver Update

Today there is no FDA approved drug for the treatment of fatty liver. However, clinicians make use of the available options i...

Prevention of Hepatitis B and Role of Counselling

Liver Update

Health education, awareness, precautions to avoid infection and vaccination are some of the important aspects of care of vira...

Hepatitis B In Special Population

Liver Update

Hepatitis B occurs commonly in liver disease patients but there are special groups of patients where the incidence of HBV and...

Hepatitis B and its treatment

Liver Update

HBV infection is reported to be commonly seen in patients with liver diseases. The third video of the series talks about the ...

Hepatitis A and its Treatment

Liver Update

Hepatitis A virus is responsible for several sporadic hepatitis outbreaks in India. This video discusses the Indian scenario ...

Viral Hepatitis - The Indian Scenario

Liver Update

Viral Hepatitis Is A Cause For Major Health Care Burden In India. Around 400 Million People All Over The World Suffer From Ch...

Management of NAFLD and NASH

Liver Update

Fatty liver diseases are quite common causing significant morbidity. It is very important to understand the management of thi...

NAFLD: A Multisystem Disease

Liver Update

Steatohepatitis is not an isolated disease of the liver, it is associated with metabolic syndrome. In this video Dr Ajay Kuma...

Understanding NASH and NAFLD: How do you differentiate?

Understanding NASH and NAFLD: How do you different...

Liver Update

June 12th is observed as International NASH day. Throughout the month of June, we bring to you a series of videos on NAFLD an...

Managing a Healthy and Functional Liver

Liver Update

Nutritional assessment in patients of liver disorders is extremely important. Sugar, alcohol, vitamins, dietary fat and immun...

What is the Diet for Cirrhosis of the liver?

Liver Update

Liver Cirrhosis Diet Cirrhotic patients frequently become malnourished as a result of changes in metabolism and digestiv...

What are the stages of liver disease ?

Liver Update

Did you know? Liver undergoes changes after exposure to viruses or toxinThe stages of liver diseases proceed from health...

Getting to the root cause of liver disease?

Liver Update

In the second video of the series, Dr K K Aggarwal  tries to get down to the root cause of liver diseases. Various facto...

Is Liver Disease the Next Big Lifestyle Disease after Diabetes and Hypertension?

Is Liver Disease the Next Big Lifestyle Disease af...

Liver Update

In this first video on the series based on general liver health, Dr K K Aggarwal discusses if liver disease is the next big l...