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Featured
Mortality in COVID-19 Does Not Appear to Be Driven by Liver Failure
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers report that elevated liver function tests are common in COVID-19, but severe liver injury is rare, and no case of liver failure or dysfunction leading to death has been attributed directly to COVID-19.
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Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis Need Earlier End-of-Life Planning
Regardless of transplant candidacy, patients with decompensated cirrhosis spend a substantial portion of their last 90 days of life in the hospital, are likely to receive intensive interventions at the end of life and tend to be referred late, if at all, to palliative or hospice care.
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Early Transplantation for Alcohol-associated Hepatitis Improves Survival
According to a mathematical model, offering liver transplantation with no minimum period of sobriety before surgery (i.e., early liver transplantation) for severe alcohol-associated hepatitis provides a fourfold increase in life expectancy compared with requiring a six-month period of sobriety before listing. having characteristics similar to patients in ACCELERATE-AH trial.
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Substance Use Disorder Increases Liver Disease Risk in Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder
Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Alcohol Liver Center found that substance use disorder, especially opioid use disorder, is a key modifiable risk factor for alcohol-associated liver disease in patients with alcohol use disorder.
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Pathways Case Record: A Patient With Cirrhosis and Small Bowel Edema
A 39-year-old man presented with an acute episode of severe epigastric pain, and initial evaluation revealed extensive small bowel edema and C1 esterase inhibitor (C1-INH) deficiency. The Pathways Service team was consulted to investigate the pathophysiologic mechanism for his dramatic small bowel edema.
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Red Meat Consumption Increases Risk of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Women
In a large prospective cohort of U.S. women, Massachusetts General Hospital researchers found that a higher intake of red meat contributed to a significant, dose-dependent increased risk of developing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and this association was largely mediated by obesity.
Liver Contributors
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Emily D. Bethea, MD
Associate Clinical Director of Liver Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Jagpreet Chhatwal, PhD
Associate Director, Institute for Technology Assessment, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
County-level COVID-19 Data Confirms Effectiveness of Workplace Closure
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Kathleen E. Corey, MD, MPH
Director, Fatty Liver Clinic, Mass General Gastrointestinal Unit, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Cardiovascular Disease Independently Associated with NAFLD in People with HIV
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Raymond T. Chung, MD
Vice Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Director, Hepatology and Liver Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Monitoring Novel HBV Markers Worthwhile in HBeAg-positive Patients Coinfected With HIV
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Russell P. Goodman, MD, DPhil
Hepatologist, Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Imbalance of Electrons in the Liver May Be A Risk Factor for Many Common Diseases
Digestive Healthcare at Mass General
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