Current therapy for preventing the first variceal bleed includes beta-blocker and variceal band
ligation (VBL). VBL has lower bleeding rates, with no differences in survival, whereas beta-…

… George Therapondos: acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, revision of
manuscript. Hyosun Han: acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, revision of …

Background & Aims Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is characterized by hepatocyte
steatosis, ballooning, and lobular inflammation which may lead to fibrosis. Lipotoxicity …

This article briefly discusses the cardiac status of liver transplant recipients and their preoperative
cardiac evaluation. It describes in detail perioperative and early and late postoperative …

Methods We developed a Markov model to compare the strategies of screening and treatment
versus no screening and treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in hypothetical …

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with altered hepatic lipid composition.
Animal studies suggest that the hepatic ratio of phosphatidylcholine (PC) to …

Early liver transplant (LT) for alcohol‐associated disease (ie, without a specific sobriety
period) is controversial but increasingly used. Using the multicenter American Consortium of …

The occurrence of acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with end-stage liver disease constitutes
one of the most challenging clinical scenarios in in-hospital and critical care medicine. …

Background Poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle can contribute to nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease (NAFLD). Objective Our aim was to compare diet and physical activity of patients with …

Many centers require a minimal graft to body weight ratio (GBWR)≥ 0.8 as an arbitrary
threshold to proceed with right-lobe living donor liver transplantation (RL-LDLT), and there is …