The obesity pandemic has led to a significant increase in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease(MAFLD).While dyslipidemia,type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases guide treatme...
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The obesity pandemic has led to a significant increase in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease(MAFLD).While dyslipidemia,type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases guide treatment in patients without signs of liver fibrosis,liver related morbidity and mortality becomes relevant for MAFLD’s progressive form,non-alcoholic steatohepatitis(NASH),and upon development of liver *** should be prescribed in patients without significant fibrosis despite concomitant liver diseases but are underutilized in the real-world *** surgery,especially Y-Roux bypass,has been proven to be superior to conservative and/or medical treatment for weight loss and resolution of obesity-associated diseases,but comes at a low but existent risk of surgical complications,reoperations and very rarely,paradoxical progression of *** end-stage liver disease develops,obese patients benefit from liver transplantation(LT),but may be at increased risk of perioperative infectious *** LT,metabolic comorbidities are commonly observed,irrespective of the underlying liver disease,but MAFLD/NASH patients are at even higher risk of disease *** studies with low patient numbers evaluated if,and when,bariatric surgery may be an option to avoid disease recurrence but more high-quality studies are needed to establish clear *** this review,we summarize the most recent literature on treatment options for MAFLD and NASH and highlight important considerations to tailor therapy to individual patient’s needs in light of their risk profile.
Tailoring the properties of the driving laser to the need of applications often requires compromises among laser stability,high peak and average power levels,pulse duration,and spectral *** instance,spectroscopy with ...
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Tailoring the properties of the driving laser to the need of applications often requires compromises among laser stability,high peak and average power levels,pulse duration,and spectral *** instance,spectroscopy with optical frequency combs in the extreme/visible ultraviolet spectral region requires a high peak power of the near-IR driving laser,and therefore high average power,pulse duration of a few tens of fs,and maximal available spectral ***,the parametric conversion efficiency is higher for pulses with a duration in the 100-fs range due to temporal walk-off and coating *** we suggest an approach to adjust the spectral characteristics of high-power chirped-pulse amplification(CPA)to the requirements of different nonlinear frequency converters while preserving the low-phase-noise(PN)properties of the *** achieve spectral tunability,we installed a mechanical spectral shaper in a free-space section of the stretcher of an in-house-developed ytterbium-fiber-based CPA *** CPA system delivers 100 W of average power at a repetition rate of 132.4 *** gaining control over the spectral properties,we preserve the relative-intensity-noise and PN properties of the *** high-power CPA can easily be adjusted to deliver either a spectrum ideal for mid-IR light generation(full width at half maximum of∼11 nm,compressed pulse duration of 230 fs)or a spectrum ideal for highly nonlinear processes such as high-harmonic generation(−10 dB level of>50 nm,transform-limited pulse duration of∼65 fs).
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