D. Maiorca

TL;DR: Long-term HA administration prolongs overall survival and might act as a disease modifying treatment in patients with decompensated cirrhosis in this trial.

TL;DR: The results show that the abnormal changes in oxidative-reductive balance parameters are paralleled by similar changes in markers of endothelial dysfunction and inflammation at 4 h after ingestion of a fatty meal, which suggests that the timing of antioxidant supplementation has an important role in endothelium protection in healthy and pre-diabetic subjects.

TL;DR: Baseline serum albumin per se should not guide the decision to start albumin therapy and could be used as a guide in order to improve the use of albumin, 4.0 g/dL being the target threshold to be pursued.

TL;DR: US power colour Doppler imaging that is a rapid, repeatable, and non invasive, low cost and easy to perform diagnostic procedure, is useful in epidemiological screening of reduced aorto-mesenteric angle to diagnose suspected cases of SMA syndrome in patients with inexplicable abdominal pain.

TL;DR: The newly proposed CTP class 0 identifies a different subgroup of patients with a better prognosis, alsowhen applied in a European cohort, where HCV aetiology is predominant.