Promising opportunities to prevent the appearance and progression of liver fibrosis | Ukrainian Medical Journal

The pathophysiological mechanisms of liver fibrosis are considered in the article. It is noted that liver fibrosis is a sign of progression of chronic diffuse liver disease, its slowing down and regression is the goal of hepatoprotective therapeutic interventions. Effective etiotropic therapy, individual diet therapy and the use of optimal hepatoprotectors can prevent the appearance and progression of liver fibrosis. The basic principles of hepatoprotective therapy and characteristics of hepatoprotective drugs are given. An innovative complex of amino acid derivatives with hepatoprotective properties Livodinol^® is presented, which allows to achieve a therapeutic goal in various chronic diffuse liver diseases.

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