Cirrhosis/Liver Failure News

Chewing khat leaves correlated with an increased risk for chronic liver disease, according to results of a case-controlled hospital-based study. The data further showed the association was dose-dependent among men.

Diets with a high intake of vegetables, cereals, coffee, tea and fermented milk products like yogurt correlated with a higher diversity in the gut microbiome. In turn, a higher microbial diversity correlated with a lower risk for hospitalization among patients with cirrhosis, according to recently published data.

A new prediction model revealed that hepatitis B DNA, international normalized ratio and older age correlated with an increased risk for the development of acute-on-chronic liver failure in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic HBV.

Alcohol consumption in young men was associated with an increased, dose-dependent risk for severe liver disease up to 39 years later in life, according to results of a recently published study.

BETHESDA, Maryland — In this exclusive video from the AASLD Industry Colloquium 2018, Kris V. Kowdley, MD, FAASLD, from Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, discusses the topics covered at the meeting and the opportunities for representatives of the industry, academia and regulatory agencies to come together.

Results of a comparative study of patients with and without diabetes who underwent curative liver resection for hepatitis C-related hepatocellular carcinoma showed that diabetes did not affect surgical outcomes and was not an unfavorable factor in selecting candidates.

Patients who underwent liver transplantation evaluation had a high prevalence of coronary artery disease, especially those with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-related cirrhosis, hepatitis C-related cirrhosis and alcoholic cirrhosis, according to a recently published study.

Investigators have validated the North American Consortium for the Study of End-Stage Liver Disease Acute-On Chronic Liver Failure model, or NACSELD-ACLF, as an accurate tool to predict 30-day survival in a study of patients with or without acute infection and cirrhosis.

The Enhanced Liver Fibrosis test and FibroTest identified advanced liver fibrosis in patients with a history of excessive alcohol consumption with high diagnostic accuracy, according to recently published data.

Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and clinically evident portal hypertension had significantly lower rates of complete response, progression free survival and overall survival after treatment with transarterial chemoembolization compared with those without portal hypertension, according to recently published data.