Gastroenterology

Cirrhosis, Not Hepatitis B Virus, Slows Gastrointestinal Motility

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, November 13th, 2000

While hepatitis B virus (HBV) patients with cirrhosis suffer slow gastrointestinal motility, it is because of cirrhosis and not the virus itself that they do so, report researchers in the European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

The researchers, members of an investigative team at the Veteran's General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, provided evidence of this as the result of an analysis of several patients with HBV or HBV associated cirrhosis.

"The purpose of this prospective study was to determine the impact of chronic HBV infection on human GI (gastrointestinal) transit, and to explore the possible patient factors modulating GI...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2000-11-13)

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