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Is There an Alternative To Liver Biopsy?

Dear Readers of and accurately measure portal hypertension,
Is There an Alternative to Liver Biopsy? or high blood pressure in the portal vein
Those of you who have followed our timely that carries blood from the digestive
reports on hepatitis c know that we track to the liver, usually as a result
endeavor to bring you updated information of cirrhosis of the liver. This study
about new approaches to the treatment and involved 35 individuals with varying
diagnosis of this dreadful virus. As the degrees of chronic liver disease and 12
baby-boomer generation ages, more and healthy volunteers. Researchers studied
more people are now finding out that they MRE examinations of liver and spleen
have acquired the hepatitis c virus. Many stiffness and found that a highly
do not know when or how they got the significant correlation exists between
virus, but most people still want liver and spleen stiffness in patients
sensible and minimally invasive with portal hypertension. However, the
treatments to help them overcome much of validity of spleen stiffness as a
the damage caused by the hepatitis c noninvasive measure of portal venous
virus. pressure requires further study.
You already know that one of the tests This research was funded in part by the
recommended by hepatologists is the liver National Institutes of Health. Co-authors
biopsy. A liver biopsy is the taking of of these studies include Meng Yin; Roger
a small sample of liver tissue which is Grimm; Phillip Rossman; Armando Manduca,
extracted usually with a needle and Ph.D.; Patrick Kamath, M.D. and Dr.
examined under a microscope. For many Ehman; all from Mayo Clinic's campus in
years, this method has been considered by Rochester; and Anthony Romano, Ph.D., of
hepatologists as the gold standard for the Naval Research Laboratory in
gauging the extent of liver damage in Washington, D.C.
people with chronic hepatitis. Most of the people who are afraid of the
Of course, liver biopsies are not without liver biopsy are the same people who
complications and many people with shutter at the thought of having to take
hepatitis c are reluctant to undergo the interferon chemotherapy. Many others
procedure. There can be pain involved; have undergone the interferon treatment
drug users in particular may legitimately and have relapsed. Now they are looking
fear that they will not get adequate pain for an alternative way with relatively no
medication. In addition, liver biopsies side-effects, because they swear they
are contra-indicated for some people (for will NEVER undergo interferon treatment
example, people with low platelet again.
counts). Furthermore, biopsy For those who do not already know us by
complications can occur, including name, we are Samglo Enterprises LTD, and
excessive bleeding and infection. And we are the makers of Nu-Liver herbal
even under the best of circumstances, remedy for hepatitis C.
biopsies fail to accurately diagnose the The Chinese people cannot afford the cost
stage of liver fibrosis about 20% of the of biopsy or interferon treatment.
time. Thus, researchers have sought other Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise.
markers that could signal liver damage They have, instead, followed a course of
without the need for biopsy. herbal therapy that extends well over
In our first report, we told you about 5,000 years. Because of the huge amount
the availability of HCV FIBROSURE, a of time the Chinese have spent treating
non-invasive blood test for assessing individuals with herbs, we have to now
liver status in hepatitis C virus assume that the Chinese have gotten very
patients. Developed in France, HCV good using herbs and herbal treatments.
Fibrosure is only available in the United And so they have. Presently, over 1
States through LabCorp. But now, two million Chinese individuals are taking
recent Mayo Clinic studies have found the Nu-Liver formulation for their
that magnetic resonance elastography hepatitis C liver disease. Science is
(MRE), a new imaging technique invented continuing to evolve and better and safer
at Mayo Clinic, is an accurate tool for methods are hopefully just around the
non-invasive diagnosis of liver diseases. corner. But we must be alive in order to
Here's how MRE works. The liver responds receive these new scientific findings.
to many diseases that damage its cells by That is our purpose at Samglo
developing scar tissue or fibrosis. MRE Enterprises: to keep you alive, to keep
uses a modified form of magnetic the hepatitis c virus from doing further
resonance imaging (MRI) to accurately harm to your liver, so that when science
measure the hardness or elasticity of the catches up with the virus, you will be
liver. By applying vibrations to the there to receive the newer treatments.
liver, MRE obtains pictures of the We want you ALIVE, and functioning
mechanical waves passing through the normally until that time comes. We will
organ. The wave pictures are then not accept treatments that are worse than
processed to generate a quantitative the disease itself, that destroy the host
image of tissue stiffness. "Healthy liver in an attempt to kill the virus. Until
tissue is very soft, while a liver with there are safer, more practical,
fibrosis is firmer, and a liver with economical, and side-effect free western
cirrhosis is almost rock-hard," says treatments to cure hepatitis c, we
Richard Ehman, M.D., lead researcher on believe that NU-LIVER is the best eastern
the MRE project. "If detected early, treatment, virtually side-effect free
fibrosis of the liver can be treated, but remedy in today's marketplace. The
once the disease has progressed to Chinese must be doing something right. We
cirrhosis, the condition is are thankful to the Chinese Medical
irreversible." Doctor who brought Nu-Liver to the United
In one study involving MRE examinations States, and also to the tens of thousands
of 57 individuals with chronic liver of Americans, Europeans, and
disease and 20 healthy volunteers, the Australians,who currently take Nu-Liver
researchers confirmed that MRE accurately for their hepatitis C.
detects fibrosis with high sensitivity As always, we wish you the Best of
and specificity. Health.
A second study looked at whether MRE can




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