1/ WHY are steroids used for alcoholic hepatitis? SHOULD we? WHAT is the deal with prednisolone vs prednisone? WHERE did the discriminant function come from? ARE you ready for a #tweetorial #livertwitter #medtwitter #meded #cirrhosis

🆕World Health Organization (WHO) 2024 guidelines for chronic hepatitis B. Note: new recommendations for NIT, MASLD, extrahepatic manifestation absence of access for HBVDNA. #livertwitter who.int/publications/i…

Would you like some expert recommendations for anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation and DVT/PE when it happens in #cirrhosis? Yes? Here you go doi.org/10.1016/j.jtha… #livertwitter

Today’s 5 minutes learning 📖 Clinical Pearls about Anticoagulant 🩸 Doses for Portal Venous Thrombosis 🤔 Kudos to @Abhi2Shenoyand and #LaurenYang for writing this piece of gold 🥇 #Livertwitter #MedEd AASLD AASLD Foundation #GITwitter

#WedGastroGuide 💩 Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) - AASLD 2018 Practice Guidance PBC Diagnosis⁉️ 💠2/3 criteria 🔸⬆️LFTs (mainly ALP) 🔸Positive AMA or other PBC-specific antibodies (e.g. sp100, gp120) 🔸Histology: non-suppurative destructive cholangitis and

Resmetirom (thyroid hormone receptor beta-selective agonist) has made 🌊 waves 🌊 as the 🥇FDA-approved treatment for MASH with fibrosis. Read Richie Manikat 's summary of this seminal NEJM trial ⏬ #livertwitter #GITwitter #MedEd #FOAMed aasld.org/liver-fellow-n…

📑 Noninvasive predictors of clinically significant portal hypertension in #NASH cirrhosis❗️ 1️⃣ANTICIPATE (TE+Plt) & ANTICIPATE-NASH (+BMI) predict CSPH 2️⃣New model, ⭐️ FIB4+ (FIB4+Albumin), also predicts CSPH and does not require elastography❕ journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

HUGE 💣 news for IMGs! The American Board of internal medicine is considering a pathway that allows American BOARD certification with just a fellowship in the U.S. without U.S. residency!

🌟 Hepatitis C - Treatment summary

💊 Antibiotic prophylaxis for SBP in cirrhosis does more harm than good 😮 📝 source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39235290/

Algorithm for evaluating an elevated alkaline phosphatase

The best review on PSC that I have read journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte… Hepatology Communications

Extremely happy to be able to connect with old colleagues during AASLD in beautiful San Diego #aasdl AASLD

AASLD meeting 2024 #AASLD2024 #Sandiego

Here is a detailed list of LFT ratios 💡 (Courtesy of EndoCollab™ | GI Endoscopy Community)

Shots fired: steroids of no help to people with alcohol-associated hepatitis in this national, VA cohort from Durkin and Bitterman doi.org/10.14309/ctg.0… #livertwitter American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

Read Liver Transplantation Journal (LTxJournal)'s latest Policy Corner: Hepatic hydrothorax #MELD exception by Shivang Mehta, MD and Ahmad Moussawi. bit.ly/424tGB2

The Difficult Colonoscopy is humbling to all endoscopists. My Pearls : #1 Female Patients If hysterectomy or diverticulitis, use pedi colonoscope + water immersion. (Angulated colon) If chronic idiopathic constipation or visceral obese, use adult colonoscope (redundant colon)

📘 Read the latest Policy Corner from Liver Transplantation Journal (LTxJournal): Transplant oncology, colorectal liver metastases #MELD nonstandard exception by Shivang Mehta, MD, Ahmad Moussawi and Craig Rosenstengle. bit.ly/4mpnRHL

Battle of the mini TIPS after Variceal bleeds 6mm v 8mm More rebleeding Less HE equal survival