Jose Luis Mundi

TL;DR: The findings show that viral cirrhosis is a major cause of osteoporosis in men, and that low serum IGF‐I levels seem to play a role in the bone mass loss in these patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multicenter, international, observational study including 671 patients from 34 centers admitted for acute variceal bleeding (AVB) and high-risk of treatment failure was conducted.

TL;DR: This large multi-center international real-life study identified ACLF as at admission an independent predictor of rebleeding and mortality in AVB and pTIPS may be considered in ACLF patients with AVB, although the presented data need to be independently validated.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of data from 1327 patients with cirrhosis, acute variceal bleeding, and Child-Pugh score between 10-13 points or CP-B+AB found that preemptive TIPS increased the proportion who survived for 1 year, in both subgroups separately, compared with drugs plus endoscopy.

TL;DR: It is shown that bone mass and bone resorption rates do not differ between post menopausal women with viral cirrhosis and healthy postmenopausal controls and suggests that viral Cirrhosis does not appear to increase the risk of osteoporosis in these women.