Joo Hyun Sohn

TL;DR: DILI appears to be a highly relevant health problem in Korea and a more objective and reproducible causality assessment tool is strongly desired as the RUCAM scale frequently undercounts the cases caused by herbs owing to a lack of previous information and incompatible time criteria.

TL;DR: AVT significantly modifies the natural history of decompensated cirrhosis, improving liver function and increasing survival, and underscores the importance of promptly administering potent antiviral drugs to patients under consideration for LT.

TL;DR: The lamivudine‐induced virologic response was durable in patients under 40 years old and those receiving lamivUDine for more than 12 months after HBeAg clearance or seroconversion, and age and additional treatment were major predictive factors for SVR.

TL;DR: The quality of bowel preparation is significantly better in patients with a shorter time between bowel preparation and the start of colonoscopy, and the time of day at which Colonoscopy is performed, whether during the morning or the afternoon, does not have a significant impact on the quality of intestine preparation.

TL;DR: In this paper, sarcopenia was associated with an increased risk of mortality in patients with cirrhosis, by sex, underlying liver disease etiology, and severity of hepatic dysfunction.