Hepatology

General Hepatology

Questions discussed in this category

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?

1 Answer available

How do you approach a patient who has incidentally found liver and renal cysts?

1 Answer available

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?

2 Answers available

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

1 Answer available

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

1 Answer available

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.

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.

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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