Sentence examples for decreasing liver function from inspiring English sources

The clinical course was characterized by increasing jaundice and decreasing liver function parameters, particularly clotting factors.

With an increasing Child-Pugh score and decreasing liver function, total doses were reduced to 35 Gy in Child B patients [ 12].

However, the longer-term impact on survival and its prediction by the measurement of activins A and B are likely to be related to the capacity of elevated levels of activin A to cause apoptosis of hepatocytes, decreasing liver function and compromising immunological defense mechanisms resulting from the apoptosis of B lymphocytes.

Inclusion criteria for patients with chronic liver disease, recruited by hepatologists, were decreased liver function and elevated serum ferritin levels.

Tyrosine and phenylalanine are mainly metabolized in the liver, suggesting that decreased liver function might result in increased plasma levels.

This may explain why 75% of our patients had a decreased liver function at the time of cirrhosis diagnosis.

Therefore, we suggest other mechanisms, rather than inflammation of the liver or an overall decreased liver function, may be responsible for the noted abnormalities.

Based on the analysis of cumulative mortality we conducted separate analyses for patients with a GEC <1.75 mmol/min (decreased liver function) or ≥1.75 mmol/min.

Lower baseline platelet counts, which reportedly correlate with decreased liver function and lower TPO level [ 17], account for lower on-treatment platelet counts.

Additionally, it would be interesting to know if other sarcomeric mutations also decrease liver function in end-stage disease, and if so, if a similar mechanism is involved.

Importantly, however, significantly higher levels of total CK-18, indicative of necrosis, were observed in the non-surviving group with decreased liver function.