Hospital Medicine

General Hepatology

Questions discussed in this category

What additional workup would you recommend for a patient with a liver abscess caused by Fusobacterium and Aggregatibacter, who has had unrevealing endoscopies and no other abdominal masses on a CT scan?

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Is there a serum ammonium level for which you recommend initiation of dialysis in a patient with hepatic encephalopathy?

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Which patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension are ideal candidates to undergo TIPS to reduce perioperative risk in anticipation of an elective surgery?

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Can defibrotide be given safely for VOD in patients with refractory thrombocytopenia to platelet transfusions?

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Do you avoid terlipressin for patients with hepatorenal syndrome who have a serum sodium level less than 125 mEq/L?

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Papers discussed in this category

Blood, 2016-03-31

Phase 3 trial of defibrotide for the treatment of severe veno-occlusive disease and multi-organ failure.

Bone marrow transplantation, 2016-07

Revised diagnosis and severity criteria for sinusoidal obstruction syndrome/veno-occlusive disease in adult patients: a new classification from the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

Bone marrow transplantation, 2018-02

Diagnosis and severity criteria for sinusoidal obstruction syndrome/veno-occlusive disease in pediatric patients: a new classification from the European society for blood and marrow transplantation.

British journal of haematology, 2020 Mar 04

Modified diagnostic criteria, grading classification and newly elucidated pathophysiology of hepatic SOS/VOD after haematopoietic cell transplantation.

Blood advances, 2022 Jan 11

Defibrotide: real-world management of veno-occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstructive syndrome after stem cell transplant.

Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, 2020 Jan-Dec

A Meta-Analysis Evaluating the Incidence of Bleeding Events With Intravenous Defibrotide Treatment Outside the Veno-Occlusive Disease/Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome Setting.

Bone marrow transplantation, 2022 Dec 23

Real-world use of defibrotide for veno-occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstruction syndrome: the DEFIFrance Registry Study.

The New England journal of medicine, 2021 Mar 04

Terlipressin plus Albumin for the Treatment of Type 1 Hepatorenal Syndrome.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 2023 Oct 17

How We Treat Hyperammonemia in Acute Liver Failure.

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