How can the Disease Extent be divided? Ulcerative colitis progresses from the rectum and moves proximally. Distal disease refers to inflammation that is limited to the rectum (proctitis) or rectum and sigmoid colon. Here it is referred to as proctosigmioditis. If the disease is more extensive it includes the left side of the colon and can cover the splenic flexure. This occurs in 40% of patients. Extensive colitis occurs up to the hepatic flexure. Pan colitis affects the whole of the colon and this
Intercept Pharma Canada files New Drug Submission to Health Canada for Marketing Approval of Obeticholic Acid for the Treatment of Patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis Obeticholic Acid represents first new treatment option for Primary Biliary Cholangitis in 20 years NEW YORK, NY, September 15, 2016 – Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICPT), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics to treat non-viral, progressive liver diseases
There are many different causes of liver damage. These can be grouped into various categories depending on the timing of the insult and the types of cells most severely affected. As the nature of injury often dictates patient outcome, these patterns of injury have important clinical implications. Acute versus chronic: Acute liver injury is a common clinical problem. In the most severe cases, acute injury results in overwhelming hepatocyte loss, a clinical condition known as acute liver failure. More
Soon after, the doctors discovered what was wrong. On February 2, 1998, he announced that he had Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis or PSC, a progressive liver disease. Without a transplant, his disease could of have been terminal. “A subsequent diagnosis of bile duct cancer precluded the transplant.” (Walter Payton Facts) He threw the first baseball at Wrigley Field
Not very many people know much about the Chicago Bears and what their past was like. They have also had a lot of good players. Examples are Harold Grange, Gale Sayers, and George Halas. But the most well known was Walter Payton. The Bears stadium was one of the oldest known until it was rebuilt. The Chicago Bears are one of the most well known football teams in the whole NFL. The Chicago Bears are a very well known team in history because of their history, there Hall of Fame players, and because