ABSTRACTS OF THE ASIAN PACIFIC ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVER: Sixth Biennial Meeting, 13–15 February 1988, New Delhi, India

The following Abstracts represent the second half of those presented at the Sixth Biennial Meeting of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver, which was held 13–15 February 1988, in New Delhi, India. The first half of the Abstracts were published in Volume 3, Number 5, 1988. GASTRIC VARICES IN PORTAL HYPERTENSIONOESOPHAGEAL VARICEAL SCLEROTHERAPY WITH 3% PHENOL IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PORTAL HYPERTENSIONEFFECT OF DIBUTYRYL CYCLIC AMPANDGLUCAGONONACUTE LIVER DAMAGE INDUCED BY D‐GALACTOSAMINE IN THE RATHTLV‐1 INFECTION IN PATIENTS WITH LIVER DISZASEHEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN PEKIN DUCKS: A USEFUL EXPERIMENTAL MODELPROGNOSIS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA WITH MEDICAL TREATMENTLONG‐TERM PROPORTION THERAPY AFTER VARICEAL OBLITERATIONCLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF IgA HEPATITIS B VIRUS CARRIERSOESTRADIOL RECEPTORS IN THE CYTOSOL OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS FROM PATIENTS WITH HEPATITIS B HEPATITIS VIRUS‐RELATEPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF PROSTAGLANDIN El IN AN EXPERIMENTAL MASSIVE HEPATIC CELL NECROSIS MODELSTUDY ON DRUG‐INDUCED ALLERGIC HEPATITIS: DETERMINATION OF SERUM CHOLESTATIC FACTOR LEVEL BY ELISASIGNIFICANCE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN SURGICAL DIAGNOSIS FOR HEPATECTOMYANTICENTROMERE ANTIBODY IN SERA OF PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSISCOLLAGENASE AND COLLAGENOLYTIC CATHEPSIN IN NORMAL AND FIBROTIC RAT LIVERSABNORMAL CHANGES IN INTERLEUKINS AND TUMOUR NECROSIS FACTOR IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS FROM PATIENTS WITH FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURESIGNIFICANCE OF MATERNAL AND INFANT SERUM ANTIBODIES TO HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN IN HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION OF INFANCYDYNAMICS AND IMPACT OF PERINATAL TRANSMISSION OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS IN NORTH INDIATROPICAL SPLENOMEGALY SYNDROME VERSUS NON‐CIRRHOTIC PORTAL FIBROSIS. IS THERE A HAEMODYNAMIC CORRELATION?PRIMARY HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMAHEPATOTOXIC EFFECTS OF SPLENIC MONONUCLEAR CELLS ON EXPERIMENTAL LIVER DAMAGECLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ABNORMAL PROTHROMBIN IN THE HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA FOLLOW‐UP OF PATIENTS WITHA CASE OF PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; 4 YEARS' TREATMENT WITH 300 mg/DAY URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACIDINCREASED SOLUBLE SERUM INTERLEUKIN‐2 RECEPTOR LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATITISMULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE AND THE LIVER FUNCTION METABOLIC DISORDER IN LIVER MITOCHONDRIAACUTE SPORADIC NON‐A, NON‐B HEPATITIS OF ADULTS IN INDIA: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, IMMUNOLOGICAL AND ANIMAL TRANSMISSION STUDIESISOTOPIC INFERIOR VENACAVOGRAPHY: A PRELIMINARY REPORTCRYPTOGENIC CIRRHOSIS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO INDIAN CHILDHOOD CIRRHOSIS: A HISTOLOGICAL STUDYHBs Ag IN CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITISHEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN KARACHIEFFECT OF COLCHICINE ON THE CLEARANCE OF FERRITIN IN NORMAL AND IRON‐LOADED RATS IN VIVOFULMINANT VIRAL HEPATITIS: CLINICAL AND AETIOLOGICAL STUDYDEPRESSION OF POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH SURGICAL JAUNDICEINTRATUMORAL INJECTION THERAPY WITH APATITE‐ADRIAMYCIN UNDER ULTRASONIC GUIDING FOR SMALL HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMASTUDY OF ENDOSCOPIC FEATURES AND INTRAVARICEAL PRESSURE AS PREDICTORS OF VARICEAL BLEEDINGPREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION IN CHILDREN WITH LIVER DISORDERSSURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF BENIGN OBSTRUCTIVE CHOLEDOCHOPATHYPROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN ACUTE VIRAL HEPATITISSERUM AMINOTERMINAL PROCOLLAGEN TYPE I11 PEPTIDE PREDICTS ANTIFIBROTIC EFFECT QF MALOTILATE IN A RAPID MOUSE MODEL OF HEPATIC FIBROGENESISHEPATOMA SCREENING IN A HEPATITIS B POSITIVE FAMILY: COPING WITH FALSE POSITIVE SCANSULTRASTRUCTURAL FEATURES, PHENOTYPES, AND DISTRIBUTION OF MITOTIC HEPATOCYTESDELAYED CLEARANCE OF HBsAg IN CHRONIC HBV CARRIERS: ITS DETERMINANTS AND IMPLICATIONSLONG‐TERM STUDY OF AMINOLEBAN EN: AN ENTERAL DIET FOR HEPATIC FAILURE IN DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSISDNA‐ALBUMIN CYTOFLUOROMETRY FOR EXPERIMENTAL LIVER INJURIESSTUDY OF ANTI‐IDIOTYPE TO ANTI‐HBc ANTI‐(ANTI‐HBc)ID: ANTI‐IDIOTYPE TO MURINE MONOCLONAL ANTI‐HBcPOST‐SCLEROTHERAPY ULCERS INFLUENCE OF SUCRALFATE AND OTHER FACTORS ON HEALINGEXPERIENCES WITH INDIGENOUS DRUGSINTHEMANAGEMENTOF ACUTE VIRAL HEPATITISSERUM: ASCITIC ALBUMIN GRADIENT: A DISTINCTIVE APPROACH TO DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION OF ASCITESCLINICAL AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF HEPATITIS WATERBORNE NON‐A, NON‐BINCREASED URINARY COPPER EXCRETION FOLLOWING D‐PENICILLAMINE IN CHILDREN WITH INDIAN CHILDHOOD CIRRHOSIS: A NEW DIAGNOSTIC TEST?ROLE OF RAS ONCOGENES IN THE MULTISTEP PROCESS OF AFLATOXIN‐INDUCED RAT LIVER CARCINOGENESISTINTESTINAL MICROFLORA OF CIRRHOTIC PATIENTS AND ITS CHANGES AFTER INTRAVENOUS OR ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF LATAMOXEFbPERCUTANEUS INTRATUMORAL ETHANOL INJECTION THERAPY TO SMALL HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMASREGENERATION OF HEPATOCYTES OF DUCKLINGS AFTER A SINGLE AFLATOXIN B1 INTOXICATION: A SEQUENTIAL STUDY BY INCORPORATION OF BROMODEOXYURIDINEDNA‐FIBRINOGEN CYTOFLUOROMETRY AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE STUDY OF EXPERIMENTAL LIVER INJURYbCALMODULIN ANTAGONISTS INHIBIT THE PHAGOCYTIC ACTIVITY OF CULTURED KUPFFER CELLSDEMONSTRATION OF C‐MYC EXPRESSION BY ZN SZTU HYBRIDIZATION IN LIVER REGENERATION AND EXPERIMENTAL HEPATOCARCINOGENESISINDUCTION OF LIVER REGENERATION BY INTERFERON ADMINISTRATION IN PROTRACTED NON‐A, NON‐B FULMINANT VIRAL HEPATITIS: A CASE REPORTCLINICAL STUDY OF NONSPECIFIC ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY IN CHRONIC TYPE B HEPATITISCALCIUM CARBONATE SHELL: A LIKELY BARRIER TO MEDICAL DISSOLUTION OF GALLSTONESANTITUMOUR IMMUNOREACTIVITY IN DIAGNOSIS OF HEPATIC MALIGNANCIESEFFECT OFHY PERAMMONIAEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY DUE TO URINARY OBSTRUCTION AND INFECTION: A UNIQUE EXPERIMENT OF NATUREMECHANISM OF TISSUE DAMAGE IN HEPATIC AMOEBIASISNODULAR TRANSFORMATION (DIFFUSE NODULAR REGENERATIVE HYPERPLASIA) OF THE LIVER: REVIEW OF 10 CASESDIETHYLENEGLYCOL‐INDUCED HEPATOTOXICITYDUCK LIVER DISEASES AND DUCK HEPATITIS B VIRUS WITHIN DUCK LIVER TISSUES IN QITONG, CHINAPROPEPTIDE REGULATION OF PROCOLLAGEN SYNTHESIS: EVIDENCE FOR A TRANSCRIPTIONAL SITE OF ACTIONIN VIVO TARGETED GENE DELIVERY AND EXPRESSION IN RAT LIVERTHE EFFECT AND MECHENISM OF GLUCAGON‐INSULIN THERAPY ON VARIOUS TYPES OF SEVERE HEPATITISSERUM GAMMA‐GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE ISOENZYME IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMAPHENOTYPES OF αHYPERPLASIA OF ITO CELLS IN HEPATIC FIBROSISARTERIAL KETONE/BODY RATIO AS AN INDICATOR OF SUCCESSFUL LIVER SURGERYINCREASED DIGOXIN‐LIKE IMMUNOREACTIVE SUBSTANCE IN CIRRHOSISEFFECTS ON HEPATOHISTOLOGICAL PATTERNS OF MASSIVE ADMINISTRATION OF STRONGER NEO‐MINOPHAGEN C FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC AGGRESSIVE HEPATITISEFFECT OF A BOOSTER DOSE ON NON‐ AND HYPO‐RESPONSDERS TO HEPATITIS B VACCINATIONDEPRESSED AND/OR NO ELEVAIONS OF BILIARY TRACT ENZYMES IN CHOLESTATIC PATIENTSPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF CALCIUM ANTAGONIST DILTIAZEM ON THE LIVER TRAEATED WITH CARBON TETRACHLORIDETHREE‐YEAR FOLLOW‐UP OF DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF HBIG‐HBV VACCINE IN THE PREVENTION OF HBsAG CARRIER STATE IN INFACTS BORN TO HBsAG POSITIVE MOTHERSSTUDIES ON THE MATERNAL‐INFANT TRANSMISSION AND HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION OF HBV IN CHILDREN