Andrea Zambruni

TL;DR: The overall applicability of radical or effective HCC treatments was unaffected by old age, however, treatment distribution differed, elderly individuals being more frequently treated with percutaneous procedures and less frequently with resection or TACE.

TL;DR: This review will deal with the three abnormalities of cardiac electrophysiology most frequently encountered in cirrhosis: (1) chronotropic incompetence; (2) electromechanical uncoupling, and (3) electrocardiographic QT interval prolongation.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the porto-systemic shunting is responsible for the altered ventricular repolarisation possibly through a dumping into the systemic circulation of splanchnic-derived cardioactive substances.

TL;DR: Chronic beta-blockade shortens the QT interval only in patients with prolonged baseline values, and this is likely due to a direct cardiac effect.

TL;DR: Rimonabant improves sodium balance and delays decompensation in preascitic cirrhosis though an improvement in systemic and renal hemodynamics, although it cannot be excluded that the antifibrotic effect of the drug may play a role.