Gastroenterology

Hepatology

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Can fatty liver disease present with elevations in alkaline phosphatase without other liver enzyme elevations (AST and ALT)?

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Would you consider long term avatrombopag use in patients with cirrhosis requiring higher platelet counts for medical therapy?

For example, someone needing a higher platelet count for dual antiplatelet agent use after coronary stent placement.

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How do you rule out spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in a patient with minimal ascites that is not amenable to paracentesis?

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How do you approach dosing beta blockers for variceal prophylaxis when the standard dose doesn’t achieve the target heart rate?"

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If you do not have easy access to Fibroscan, what do you recommend for non-invasive tests to determine if a MASLD patient has clinically significant portal hypertension and risk stratify them?

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How do you manage fatty liver disease in patients on olanzapine who are reluctant to change meds?

I have several forensic patients who have elevated LFTs and fatty liver on ultrasound, at least in part due to long-term olanzapine use. They are all ...

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What is your approach to the management of post-TIPS hepatic encephalopathy?

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Do you avoid peritoneal dialysis in cirrhotic patients with ascites?

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Do you obtain liver biopsy to confirm the diagnosis of cirrhosis if cirrhotic liver morphology is noted on imaging?

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How do you determine whether to limit volume removal during therapeutic paracentesis in a patient without acute or chronic kidney disease?

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Is there benefit to aggressively treating hemochromatosis in a patient who has already progressed to cirrhosis at the time of diagnosis?

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Do you recommend the use of SGLT2 inhibitors to reduce the risk of liver cirrhosis in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus?

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Papers discussed in this category

International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 Mar 13

SGLT-2 Inhibitors in NAFLD: Expanding Their Role beyond Diabetes and Cardioprotection.

Archives of internal medicine, 2006 Feb 13

Screening for hemochromatosis in asymptomatic subjects with or without a family history.

Gastroenterology, 2018 May 17

Avatrombopag Before Procedures Reduces Need for Platelet Transfusion in Patients With Chronic Liver Disease and Thrombocytopenia.

The New England journal of medicine, 2012 Aug 23

Eltrombopag before procedures in patients with cirrhosis and thrombocytopenia.

Medicine, 2016 Jan

Peritoneal Dialysis is Associated With A Better Survival in Cirrhotic Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease.

Clinical nephrology, 2011 Oct

Outcome of peritoneal dialysis in cirrhotic patients with end-stage renal disease: a 24-years' experience in Taiwan.

The American journal of medicine, 1992 Jul

Peritoneal dialysis in end-stage renal disease patients with preexisting chronic liver disease and ascites.

American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation, 2002 Jul

Outcome of peritoneal dialysis in cirrhotic patients with chronic renal failure.

The New England journal of medicine, 2024 Jul 25

Dual Agonists for Management of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2023 Oct 23

AASLD Practice Guidance on risk stratification and management of portal hypertension and varices in cirrhosis.

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