Elena Redaelli

TL;DR: In elderly hospitalized patients, S. boulardii was not effective in preventing the development of AAD, and there was no difference in mortality rates.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that aldosterone blockade by long-term K-Canrenoate administration improves hepatic hemodynamics by lowering HVPG and ameliorates cardiac structure and function by favoring a reduction in LVWT and LVEDV as well.

TL;DR: The presence of increased thickness of left ventricle parietal walls in chronic hepatitis C in the precirrhotic stage point to a putative role of HCV in this heart structural abnormality that can become a co-factor in the more advanced stages of cirrhosis when portal hypertension and its deleterious effects on systemic hemodynamics, cardiac function and structure become manifest.

TL;DR: The data show that sympathetic nerve traffic activation is already detectable in Child class A cirrhosis when clinically significant portal hypertension is present but ascites never developed and is not generalized because although muscle traffic is increased, skin traffic is within normal range.

TL;DR: In this paper, the adipocyte-derived insulin-sensitizing hormone might play a protective role against hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.