Remember the The Baveno Cooperation: an EASL Consortium criteria for a clinically meaningful 🔽 in LSM, #LiverTwitter ?

They'll likely need a revision/simplification, but let the post-SVR data speak for itself!

👉Repeating LSM is important for prognostication
👉Updated/last LSM is 🔑 ➡️ NOT the 20%

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🌶️ Elastography needed for diagnosing cACLD & CSPH? 🌶️
👉 Forget the surrogate fibrosis, think of 👪 & their risk 👉 FIB-4 >= 1.75 ~ LSM >= 10kPa by VCTE. Age is no concern!
👉 VITRO >= 2.5 👉 CSPH ruled-in.
👉 🩸-based non-proprietary NIT - same info as LSM!
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Sumeet Asrani UAlberta Crit Care University of Alberta GI 🌲🇨🇦

Elmir Omerovic Roger Borràs Vinay Prasad MD MPH Judea Pearl Adan Z Becerra, PhD Frank Harrell Gregg W. Stone MD Xuanyu Shi Giulio Grossi Sanjay Kaul John Mandrola, MD 1/2) A doctor has to choose to give a patient A or B. Do they wish to use the results of a fair comparison of A & B using patients who are equivalent to each other to the degree specified by chance and honestly reflected by estimates of uncertainty…

Use beta-blockers, mostly carvedilol

And dont worry about checking for response

Super cool meta-analysis in Hepatology Communications
journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…
Juan G Abraldes Wong yujun #livetwitter

Is the app suggesting the right question? #shouldIwearasweater

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❓What happens to portosystemic collaterals ( #SPSS ) over time?

📈 Collaterals increase in number/size if liver function worsens

😱 Collaterals mostly persist despite liver function improvement

The Baveno Cooperation: an EASL Consortium study in
JHEP Reports 📕t.ly/PWGvo

Lv Y et al. Desarrollo y validación de una puntuación de pronóstico para identificar el candidato óptimo para TIPS preventivo en pacientes con cirrosis y hemorragia aguda por várices.
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shorturl.at/rAEL8

Lv Y et al. Development and validation of a prognostic score to identify the optimal candidate for preemptive TIPS in patients with cirrhosis and acute variceal bleeding
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shorturl.at/rAEL8

A heartfelt THANK YOU to all our top reviewers in 2023! We genuinely appreciate your dedicated efforts in advancing science! #LiverTwitter AASLD AASLD President AASLD Foundation Harmeet Malhi

Explore our latest research: 🇦🇷
Enhancing ACLF prediction by integrating sarcopenia assessment and frailty in LT candidates in the WL - JHEP Reports jhep-reports.eu/article/S2589-…

#Livertwitter #frailty #sarcopenia #ACLF Gonzalo Gomez Perdiguero, MD Juan G Abraldes Sociedad Argentina de Hepatologia ALEH Eur. Fdn. for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure

In many African countries women carry the burden of finding and bringing home clean water. They can’t go to school in the meanwhile. For my 50th birthday I would like to fund some clean water which can help women studying and improving their communities: thewaterproject.org/community/prof…

This comprehensive AASLD Practice Guidance aims to equip care providers with an in-depth understanding of the use of TIPS and/or variceal embolization/obliteration in the management of variceal hemorrhage. Read the latest: bit.ly/46Qdt2U #LiverTwitter HEPATOLOGY Journal

Did you know about our new Fellows' Corner?
Keeping up with an ever-evolving literature during GI and hepatology training is not an easy task.
Here Rob Wilechansky discuss 3 papers with meaningful developments for diagnostics and therapeutics in hepatology!
tinyurl.com/3uyc8628

Good morning Edmonton!! SunriseNov 19/23 #yeg #Photography #rivervalley #sunrise #skyline #exploreedmonton

Map by gontsa 🇺🇦 shows the North American cities with sizable Ukrainian populations. Ukrainians didn’t venture far from their home latitudes when migrating across the Atlantic.

AGA Clinical Practice Update on the Use of Vasoactive Drugs and Intravenous Albumin in Cirrhosis: Expert Review
Guadalupe GarciaTsao Juan G Abraldes Nicole Rich Vincent Wong

gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-…