The evidence speaks for itself…. Minimum Alcohol Pricing reduces alcohol-related deaths and alcohol-related liver disease. It’s time for action British Liver Trust Victoria Atkins Alcohol Health Alliance UK BSG Dr Rachel Clarke BASL Shaun Lintern Ross Lydall The BMJ The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

A key teaching point I have held onto from HMS Palliative Care #PCEP course is the importance of improving symptom burden prior to serious illness discussions to allow patients to have the physical/mental space to think more clearly about their priorities Vicki Jackson Shunichi Nakagawa

Our new Nature Medicine paper describes the results of our search for proteins secreted by the placenta that modulate insulin resistance in pregnancy! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Also loved spending QT with MGH Division of Gastroenterology rockstar 3rd yr fellows (I kinda look like a fellow in these too 😂).

The future is bright!🌟🌟💥💥 #ScrubsNHeels24

SO honored to have J. Sawalla Guseh, M.D., 🏊‍♀️ 🚵‍♀️🏃‍♂️sport cardiologist 🫀 expert & 🐍 wrangler extraordinaire, visit as our annual Fellow’s Visiting Professor Grand Rounds invited speaker! He’s invited to be on our team any day! #honorarywolverine 〽️🐺💙
Mass General Heart U-M Health Frankel CVC

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a morbid diagnosis that carries high risk of short-term mortality. This Perspective describes a framework to guide the difficult conversations regarding initiating RRT to ease distress for all parties involved bit.ly/KID0382

just heard amazing data about the alive service at MGH Division of Gastroenterology . Encourages aud therapy and prevents liver events in patients with alcohol use. Great presentation! Please consider inviting Jay Luther Jay Luther to present. #livertwitter AASLD American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

Guidelines are unanimous;

For look risk procedures like paracentesis we need not check INR and should not give FFP

Liver, gastroenterology, hematology, and interventional radiology societies agree

So why the variation in managing “the cirrhotic coagulopathy”?

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#MonganScienceMinute featuring Nneka N. Ufere, MD MSCE Areej El-Jawahri Mass General Cancer Center pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38497942/

HCV treatment via telemedicine integrated with addiction care.

92% DAA initiation.

ITT cure rate of 90% with telemed vs 39% usual care. Population - people with opioid use disorder. Trial was pragmatic.

Programs like these should be implemented WIDELY
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Out now 💥 pragmatic RCT which found higher HCV cure rates with facilitated telemedicine integrated into opioid treatment programs led by Dr. Andrew Talal at UBuffalo. Proud to be part of this study. Michigan Hepatology MountSinaiLiver #livertwitter

With tremendous joy, I share that our patient who received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant was discharged home today after removal of his dialysis access. We hope that this is a first step that will bring hope to many patients waiting for a kidney transplant #xenotransplant

We are happy to share that today, Rick Slayman, our first patient to ever receive a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, has been discharged from the hospital. He is recovering well and will continue to recuperate at home with his family.

Had our first LiverPal semi-annual retreat yesterday. Beautiful opportunity for reflection on the journey thus far. Forever thankful and grateful to work with this team. 6 months down, 40 patients randomized! #palliativehepatology

Most viewed in the last 7 days from JAMA:

In patients with MASLD, does 81 mg of aspirin daily reduce the quantity of hepatic fat at 6-month follow-up compared with placebo?

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After this successful banding session we have two sets of banders left for the hospital. Consider donating to Health Uganda (HUG) - $168 buys a band ligation set that can save lives!

ugandahealth.org

Targeting MAP is crucial to hasten AKI recovery. See➡️ journals.lww.com/hep/fulltext/9… by the mad genius Giuseppe Cullaro

Need more evidence?
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32618694/
➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38535488/

AASLD Global Aki HRS Harmony

Ladies. That keratin treatment for your hair? It may cause kidney injury. Fascinating NEJM case letter below.

I'm excited to share our Analysis of NIH Funding for the COVID-19 Pandemic in Open Forum Infectious Diseases! Rapidly scaling up research is vital to a pandemic response & the NIH is one of our nation's leading biomedical research vehicles. Here's what we learned about the research response.
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Thanks Alex Smith, MD for your mentorship! Grateful to AAHPM for this honor - I’m leaving this year’s meeting so inspired by the #hapc24 community… and already looking forward to next year’s GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast pub crawl in Denver!