Gary A AbramsSummaryAffiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham Country: USA Publications
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Utility of pulse oximetry in the detection of arterial hypoxemia in liver transplant candidatesGary A Abrams
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Liver Center, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Liver Transpl 8:391-6. 2002..Nevertheless, pulse oximetry can be a useful screening tool to detect arterial hypoxemia in patients with cirrhosis, but a higher threshold for obtaining an ABG must be used...
The utility of the "NAFLD fibrosis score" in morbidly obese subjects with NAFLDKamran Qureshi
Department of Pathology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
Obes Surg 18:264-70. 2008..We evaluated the validity of a recently proposed "NAFLD fibrosis score" to identify liver fibrosis in morbidly obese individuals with elevated and normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels...
High fat diet induces dysregulation of hepatic oxygen gradients and mitochondrial function in vivoSudheer K Mantena
Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Center for Free Radical Biology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Biochem J 417:183-93. 2009..These findings indicate that chronic exposure to a HFD negatively affects the bioenergetics of liver mitochondria and this probably contributes to hypoxic stress and deleterious NO-dependent modification of mitochondrial proteins...
Cost-effectiveness of screening, surveillance, and primary prophylaxis strategies for esophageal varicesMiguel R Arguedas
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 97:2441-52. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Screening for varices is an affordable strategy in compensated liver disease, whereas universal primary prophylaxis with beta-blockers is cost-effective in decompensated patients...
Prospective evaluation of outcomes and predictors of mortality in patients with hepatopulmonary syndrome undergoing liver transplantationMiguel R Arguedas
Liver Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
Hepatology 37:192-7. 2003..Preoperative testing for the severity of HPS can be used to stratify patients according to the risk for postoperative mortality...
