Patients with acute decompensated cirrhosis have high morbidity/ mortality.Liver transplantation can save the lives of patients with acute-onchro..
Complex hepatitis B virus (HBV) life cycle and current treatment are dependent on nucleos(t)ide analogues (NAs).A partial or functional cure is ..
For the management of recurrent or persistent hepatic encephalopathy (HE), use a medical treatment like nonabsorbable disaccharides + rifaximin a..
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a dynamic syndrome associated with very high short-term mortality. Until 2013, there was no evidence-bas..
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) RNA and HBcrAg (Hepatitis B core-related antigen) are both biomarkers that are used to assess disease activity in chronic..
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), is a chronic, asymptomatic, progressive condition affecting about 38% of the gl..
Lean nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can progress to clinically significant liver disease without becoming obese.Lean NAFLD patients ha..
Refractory ascites is a challenging condition where the accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity (ascites) does not respond to standard medi..
INASL modification provides improvement over the previous BarcelonaClinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging in terms of:ALBI (Albumin-Bilirubin) score:..
Globally, the use of digital health interventions (DHIs) is expanding, along with growing scientific evidence of their effectiveness to help in c..
EASL Guidelines advise hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in PW1bs or men who have sex with men with ongoing risk behavior (A1). Current direct-acting a..
For screening high risk-populations Fib-1 is the First-line of Defense. Sequential or combination testing can be done to address the Grey Zone.Fo..
Gut dysbiosis is the emerging concept that has been linked with complications of cirrhosis, such as SBP and HE. These events portend a poor progn..
There is a lack of specific drug for a comprehensive medical treatment for ACLF. Moreover, the novel treatment options are in premature stage. Th..
Patients with cirrhosis have a high prevalence of renal dysfunction. The susceptibility to renal dysfunction is due to both the severe splanchnic..
Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is increasingly used for nonrenal indications in ICU.Early use of CRRT in acute liver failure (ALF) f..
All-cause mortality is linked to cirrhosis. Many studies are now focusing on liver drugs with pleiotropic and/or antifibrotic effects.Efruxifermi..
Although a rather benign course of chronic HBV infection during childhood has been described, 3%-5% and 0.01%-0.03% of chronic carriers develop c..
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