Clinical practice guidelines are important for guiding the management of specific diseases
by medical practitioners, trainees, and nurses. In some cases, the guidelines are utilized as a …

Background Globally, chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a major public health concern. Timely and
effective management can prevent disease progression to cirrhosis and reduce the risk of …

Background & Aims This study aimed to identify preoperative magnetic resonance (MR)
imaging biomarkers for predicting microvascular invasion (MVI), to determine their diagnostic …

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a major cause of death in many countries, including
South Korea. To provide useful and sensible advice for clinical management of patients with …

Probiotic bacteria exhibit a variety of properties, which are unique to a particular strain.
Lactobacillus acidophilus-SDC 2012, 2013 are new strains isolated from Korean infants’ feces. …

Objective: We compared surgical resection (SR) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as first-line
treatment in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) based on the risk of …

The long‐term clinical impact of low‐level viremia (LLV;< 2,000 IU/mL) is not well understood.
As a result, it is unclear whether the development of LLV during entecavir monotherapy …

Background and aim Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a hepatic manifestation of
the metabolic syndrome, was associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in many cross-…

Background & Aims Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been associated with
chronic kidney disease (CKD), but cohort studies are limited. We investigated the longitudinal …

Controversy exists about whether antiviral therapy (AVT) should be recommended for
compensated cirrhosis patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and detectable, but …