Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Liver Diseases

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for treatments for liver diseases.

Reviewed January 2009

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Title:   Pentoxifylline for alcoholic hepatitis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hepatitis is inflammatory injury of the liver. Alcohol is toxic to the liver, and too much alcohol can cause alcoholic hepatitis. The severe form of alcoholic hepatitis is life-threatening. The use of pentoxifylline as a treatment for alcoholic hepatiti...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Selective internal radiation therapy for liver metastases from colorectal cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Bowel cancer commonly spreads to the liver. In most patients this cannot be removed by an operation and cure is not possible. Chemotherapy treatment can help control the growth of the cancer and improve survival. Radioactive beads can be injected into t...
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Percutanous ethanol injection or percutaneous acetic acid injection for early hepatocellular carcinoma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) ranks fifth in global cancer burden. Percutaneous techniques such as percutaneous ethanol injection, percutaneous acetic acid injection, and radiofrequency thermal ablation, cryoablation, and transarterial chemoem...
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Cryotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Liver cell cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) is the most common primary cancer of the liver. Liver cancer is regarded as the third most common cause of death from cancer. Only a minority of the patients are candidates for liver surgery or liver transpla...
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Fluoropyrimidine-HAI (hepatic arterial infusion) versus systemic chemotherapy (SCT) for unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The standard treatment for unresectable liver-confined metastatic disease from colorectal cancer (CRC) is systemic chemotherapy (SCT). Unfortunately, the prognosis of these patients is dismal and SCT is virtually never curative. Although locoregional tr...
Date:   Apr 2009
Title:   Combined DTP-HBV-HIB vaccine versus separately administered DTP-HBV and HIB vaccines for primary prevention of diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae B (HIB)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Childhood vaccinations provide an effective method of protection against many diseases. There are multiple advantages to combining vaccines: reducing the number of visits, injections and patient discomfort, increasing compliance, and optimizing preventi...
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Antibiotic prophylaxis for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in cirrhotic patients with ascites, without gastro-intestinal bleeding
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (infection and inflammation of the membrane lining the abdominal cavity) is a frequent complication among cirrhotic patients (patients with end-stage liver disease marked by irreversible scarring of liver tissue) and is...
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Pharmacological interventions versus no pharmacological intervention for ischaemia reperfusion injury in liver resection surgery performed under vascular control
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Elective liver surgery undertaken for a variety of reasons may require occlusion of the blood supply to the liver in order to reduce bleeding from the cut liver surface. This temporary blood supply interruption can cause liver damage for a variety of re...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Pharmacological interventions for ischaemia reperfusion injury in liver resection surgery performed under vascular control
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Elective liver surgery undertaken for a variety of reasons may require occlusion of the blood supply to the liver in order to reduce bleeding from the cut liver surface. This temporary interruption of blood supply causes liver damage for a variety of re...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Immunoglobulins for preventing hepatitis A
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hepatitis A is a common, contagious viral disease in low-income countries. Hepatitis A is transmitted primarily by faecal-oral spread from person to person. Passive immunoprophylaxis for hepatitis A using immunoglobulin preparations were essential for p...
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   Antifibrinolytic amino acids for acquired coagulation disorders in patients with liver disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Randomised clinical trials with antifibrinolytic amino acids for upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with liver disease plus acquired coagulation disorders could not be found....
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   Ursodeoxycholic acid for cystic fibrosis-related liver disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Problems of bile composition and flow cause liver disease for up to 20% of young people with cystic fibrosis. Ursodeoxycholic acid is a naturally occurring bile acid given to try and prevent liver disease in cystic fibrosis. We searched for trials of th...
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Cardiopulmonary interventions to decrease blood loss and blood transfusion requirements for liver resection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Blood loss during liver resection (partial removal of liver) is one of the important factors affecting the post-operative complications of patients. Allogeneic blood transfusion (using blood donated by a different individual) is associated with increase...
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Pharmacological interventions to decrease blood loss and blood transfusion requirements for liver resection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Blood loss during liver resection (partial removal of liver) is one of the important factors affecting the post-operative complications of patients. Allogeneic blood transfusion (using blood donated by a different individual) is associated with increase...
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Ischaemic pre-conditioning for elective liver resections performed under vascular occlusion
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   More than 1000 elective liver resections (planned operation) are performed annually in the United Kingdom alone. When liver resection is performed, the inflow of blood to the liver can be blocked (vascular occlusion), thereby reducing the blood loss. Th...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Liver resection versus other treatments for neuroendocrine tumours in patients with resectable liver metastases
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Liver spread from hormone-producing cancer of intestinal hormone cells is generally treated by liver resection surgery (removing the affected parts of the liver) if it is possible to remove all the cancer deposits and is associated with good long-term s...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Palliative cytoreductive surgery versus other palliative treatments in patients with unresectable liver metastases from gastro-entero-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Liver metastases (liver spread) from gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours (cancer of intestinal hormone cells which originate from the embryonic nerve cells or the embryonic outer coat) are generally treated with surgery if a complete removal is deem...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Hepatitis B immunisation in persons not previously exposed to hepatitis B or with unknown exposure status
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Several million people world-wide are infected with hepatitis B virus. The infection may cause serious short-term and long-term effects including portal hypertension, liver failure, liver cancer, and death. Hepatitis B vaccination is reported to be bene...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Image-guided percutaneous procedure plus metronidazole versus metronidazole alone for uncomplicated amoebic liver abscess
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Amoebiasis (disease caused by the protozoan Entameoba histolytica) remains an important clinical problem in countries around the world, with 40 to 50 million people affected. Mortality rates are significant, with 40,000 to 110,000 deaths each year. In f...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Antacids for preventing oesophagogastric variceal bleeding and rebleeding in cirrhotic patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Randomised trials with antacids for preventing oesophagogastric variceal bleeding and bleeding in cirrhotic patients could not be found. Valid evidence for or against the use of antacids for preventing oesophagogastric variceal bleeding and bleeding in ...
Date:   Feb 2008
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