In hepatorenal syndrome (HRS), renal insufficiency is often progressive, and the prognosis
is extremely poor under standard medical therapy. The molecular adsorbent recirculating …

Patients with liver cirrhosis and a superimposed acute injury with progressive hyperbilirubinemia
have a high mortality. A prospective, controlled study was performed to test whether …

Introduction. The mainstay in the treatment of the large-vessel vasculitides giant cell arteritis
(GCA) and Takayasu arteritis (TA) are glucocorticosteroids (GC) for induction of remission …

We optimized the novel technique of multielectrode neurochip recordings for the rapid and
efficient screening of neuroactivity. Changes in the spontaneous activity of cultured networks …

Liver failure associated with excretory insufficiency and jaundice results in an endogenous
accumulation of toxins involved in the impairment of cardiovascular, kidney, and cerebral …

Patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) refractory to standard immunosuppressive therapy
may constitute a significant clinical problem with a high risk of glucocorticoid-related adverse …

Extracorporeal albumin dialysis (ECAD) enables the elimination of albumin bound
substances and is used as artificial liver support system. Albumin binding function for the …

… All records from patients in our hospital who were undergoing cadaveric liver transplantation
between January 1, 1998, and December 31, 1998, were retrospectively examined and …

The innovative alternative method of multielectrode neurochip recording, which offers
improvements compared to standard animal experimentation, has been further optimised by …

Mycophenolate is one of the mainstays of immunosuppressive therapy after organ
transplantation and has also been increasingly used in the treatment of rheumatic diseases1. It is …