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How do you balance infection risk versus therapeutic benefit of steroid tapers when treating patients with alcohol related hepatitis?

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Hepatology · Wake Forest University
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Patients presenting with severe alcoholic hepatitis who are initiated on corticosteroids following exclusion of an active infection and GI bleeding should have a Lille score calculated at day 7, though some centers now use a day-4 Lille score, which has similar prognostic value with regard to respon...

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