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Acute-on-chronic liver failure is a distinct syndrome that develops in patients with acute decompensation of cirrhosis

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Diagnostic criteria for ACLF was established and showed that it is distinct from AD, based not only on the presence of organ failure(s) and high mortality rate but also on age, precipitating events, and systemic inflammation.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 2110 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chronic liver disease.

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Burden of liver diseases in the world

TL;DR: The global prevalence of viral hepatitis remains high, while drug-induced liver injury continues to increase as a major cause of acute hepatitis.
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EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines for the management of patients with decompensated cirrhosis

TL;DR: The panel of experts, having emphasised the importance of initiating aetiologic treatment for any degree of hepatic disease at the earliest possible stage, extended its work to all the complications of cirrhosis which had not been covered by the European Association for the Study of the Liver guidelines.
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The global burden of liver disease: The major impact of China

TL;DR: The epidemiology and characteristics of liver diseases and liver‐related research in China are discussed and many challenges remain that must be tackled collaboratively.
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Cirrhosis-associated immune dysfunction: Distinctive features and clinical relevance

TL;DR: Cirrhosis-associated immune dysfunction phenotypes switch from predominantly "pro-inflammatory" to predominantly "immunodeficient" in patients with stable ascitic cirrhosis and in Patients with severely decompensated cirrhoses and extra-hepatic organ failure (e.g. acute-on-chronic liver failure), respectively.
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The SOFA (Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction/failure. On behalf of the Working Group on Sepsis-Related Problems of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

TL;DR: The ESICM developed a so-called sepsis-related organ failure assessment (SOFA) score to describe quantitatively and as objectively as possible the degree of organ dysfunction/failure over time in groups of patients or even in individual patients.
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Transection of the oesophagus for bleeding oesophageal varices

TL;DR: Emergency ligation of bleeding oesophageal varices using the Milnes Walker technique was performed in 38 patients, and in patients with good preoperative liver function this rose to 71% and the simple scoring system for grading the severity of disturbance of liver function was found to be of value in predicting the outcome of surgery.
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Disease Tolerance as a Defense Strategy

TL;DR: The notion of disease tolerance has been introduced into the conceptual tool kit of immunology as discussed by the authors, which will expand our understanding of infectious diseases and host pathogen interactions. But, it has not yet been applied to human studies.
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