Cirrhosis/Liver Failure News

Approximately 14% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas, where access to health care may be limited by insurance coverage, geography and infrastructure, and provider shortages, according to HHS.

Metabolic surgery significantly lowered risk for major adverse liver outcomes vs. nonsurgical management among patients with obesity and compensated cirrhosis from metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, according to study data.

Fecal microbiota transplant, regardless of dose or route, was safe and associated with reduced hepatic encephalopathy recurrence among patients with cirrhosis receiving lactulose and rifaximin, according to a study in Journal of Hepatology.

Hispanic patients hospitalized for alcohol use disorder were more likely to develop alcohol-associated hepatitis, decompensated cirrhosis and related complications compared with non-Hispanic white patients, according to published data.

The FDA has granted premarket approval to Sequana Medical’s alfapump implantable device for the treatment of recurrent or refractory ascites due to cirrhosis, according to a company press release.

The FDA granted fast track designation to Lipocine’s LPCN 1148, an oral androgen receptor agonist containing testosterone dodecanoate, for the treatment of sarcopenia in patients with decompensated cirrhosis, according to the manufacturer.

SAN DIEGO — Waitlist mortality and liver transplant rates for women appear to more closely align with rates for men after the implementation of MELD 3.0, according to late-breaking data presented at The Liver Meeting.

HHS adopted a final rule eliminating the requirement that patients with HIV in need of a kidney or liver transplant participate in a clinical study to receive an organ from a donor with HIV, according to an agency press release.

SAN DIEGO — Combination tobevibart and elebsiran led to “profound and rapid virologic suppression” as well as normalization of alanine aminotransferase at week 24 in chronic hepatitis D virus infection, according to preliminary data.