Efruxifermin improves fibrosis in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis
1. Efruxifermin 50 mg once-weekly significantly improved fibrosis at 96 weeks versus placebo. 2. MASH resolution without worsened fibrosis was ...
Tag: chronic liver disease
Association between serum albumin to creatinine ratio and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a longitudinal cohort study in non-obese Chinese individuals
1. In a group of Chinese patients with normal low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), serum albumin to creatinine (sACR) showed an ...
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Child-Pugh Score: Prognosis, Classification & Cirrhosis Staging in Chronic Liver Disease [Classics Series]
1. The Child-Pugh score, derived from five clinical and lab measures (bilirubin, albumin, INR/prothrombin time, ascites, encephalopathy), is widely used ...
LI-RADS outlines standards for liver imaging studies assessing HCC [Classics Series]
This study summary is an excerpt from the book 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark ...
Post-COVID Syndrome is linked to higher mortality risk and multi-organ dysfunction
1. Hospital readmission and mortality rates were higher in post-COVID patients as compared to matched control groups. 2. More diagnoses ...
#VisualAbstract: Adjunctive methylprednisolone treatment for hepatitis B acute-on-chronic liver failure associated with increased survival
1. Adding methylprednisolone to standard treatment in hepatitis B virus-related acute-on-chronic liver failure was associated with an increase in 6-month ...
Metformin associated with reduced mortality in kidney disease, congestive heart failure, and chronic liver disease
1. Metformin use is associated with reduced all-cause mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, or chronic ...
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Polyethylene glycol superior to lactulose for hepatic encephalopathy [HELP trial]
1. More patients treated with polyethylene glycol had improvement in their hepatic encephalopathy scoring algorithm (HESA) score, as compared to ...
