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TL;DR: As compared with a liberal transfusion strategy, a restrictive strategy significantly improved outcomes in patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

TL;DR: Assessment of ACLF patients at 3‐7 days of the syndrome provides a tool to define the emergency of LT and a rational basis for intensive care discontinuation owing to futility.

TL;DR: Albumin therapy increases survival of patients who have high-risk episodes of SBP, although it does not seem to be necessary for patients with low risk of death.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the relationship between the presence of the TLR4 D299G polymorphism and the incidence of bacterial infections in cirrhotic patients and concluded that the TLRs could influence not only the predisposition to bacterial infections but also the evolution of the disease in patients.

TL;DR: In patients with high-risk varices treated to prevent first bleeding, the systemic hemodynamic response to β-blockers is greater in those with decompensated cirrhosis than in compensated with higher reduction of hearth-rate and CO, while portal pressure decrease is smaller.