Liver/Biliary Disorders News

Offspring born to mothers with prenatal or third trimester intestinal infection or genitourinary tract infection experienced a significantly higher risk for biliary atresia, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.

Patients diagnosed with cryptogenic pyogenic liver abscess had a “significantly higher incidence” of colorectal cancer up to 3 years from diagnosis compared with matched controls, highlighting the importance of CRC screening, data showed.

Use of nonselective beta-blockers was associated with stage 2 acute kidney injury and all-cause mortality among patients with decompensated cirrhosis waitlisted for liver transplantation, data showed.

Each January, Alcohol Change UK runs Dry January, a post-holiday campaign that encourages people to abstain from alcohol for 31 days at the beginning of the year and drink more healthily year-round.

Older adult patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure had significantly higher waitlist mortality but “acceptable” 1-year survival after liver transplantation, according to data in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Patients with cirrhosis are less frequently screened for osteoporosis compared with the general population, and less than 25% with low bone density actually receive treatment, according to research in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

BOSTON — In this video, Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc, discusses data supporting once-monthly dosing of BOS-580, an investigational, long-acting fibroblast growth factor-21 analog for treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis.

In this Healio video exclusive, Dean Hum, PhD, chief scientific officer at Genfit, outlines five ongoing programs in the company’s acute-on-chronic liver failure development pipeline, which recently were presented at The Liver Meeting.

A new clinical guideline published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology underscored the need to overcome barriers to alcohol use disorder treatment and expand multidisciplinary care for patients with alcohol-associated liver disease.

Throughout 2023, gastroenterology societies made several significant clinical practice updates to guide diagnosis, management and treatment of various GI disorders such as celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease and acute liver failure.