Hepatology

Waitlist outcomes are improved by living donor liver transplantation for high-risk patients with cirrhosis, according to a recent study. This study aimed to assess the impact of access to LDLT in waitlisted patients at highest risk of dropout.

Higher triglyceride levels have been linked with incidence of moderately severe and severe acute pancreatitis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The complications of this hypertriglyceridaemia included organ failure and acute peripancreatic fluid collection.

A spike in the number of hospitalisations for alcohol-related hepatitis occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more…

According to new research, higher animal protein intake is associated with greater mortality risk in patients with liver cirrhosis…

Stable patients with Child–Pugh A cirrhosis and acute variceal bleeding did not experience different outcomes after antibiotic prophylaxis…

A new study investigates the clinical course of alcohol-related liver disease, considering that 15% of patients experience decompensation…

2.4 million people are living with hepatitis C in the United States, according to federal data, and many don’t know they have the virus…

A study has emerged with interesting risk insights to do with personalisation of treatment in paediatric liver transplantation…