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A Model for Predicting Development of Overt Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients With Cirrhosis

scientific article published on 5 January 2015

A Prospective Multicentre Study of the Epidemiology and Outcomes of Bloodstream Infection in Cirrhotic Patients

scientific article

A Simplified Psychometric Evaluation for the Diagnosis of Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

A comparison of skinfold anthropometry and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry for the evaluation of body fat in cirrhotic patients

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

A cost analysis of a broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy in the empirical treatment of health care-associated infections in cirrhotic patients

scientific article published on 29 June 2017

A low muscle mass increases mortality in compensated cirrhotic patients with sepsis

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

A practical approach to nutritional screening and assessment in cirrhosis

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

A randomized study on Peg-interferon alfa-2a with or without ribavirin in liver transplant recipients with recurrent hepatitis C.

scientific article published on 5 February 2007

Accuracy of the automated cell counters for management of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

scientific article published on October 2008

Acute Renal Failure in Liver Transplant Recipients: Role of Pretransplantation Renal Function and 1-Year Follow-Up

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Acute hepatitis B in a patient with OLT during treatment with peg-interferon and ribavirin for hepatitis C recurrence

scientific article

Albumin infusion in cirrhotic patients with infections other than spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: End of the story?

scientific article published on 16 May 2015

Alpha-SMA expression in hepatic stellate cells and quantitative analysis of hepatic fibrosis in cirrhosis and in recurrent chronic hepatitis after liver transplantation

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Aminoacid imbalance and malnutrition in liver cirrhosis

scientific article published in November 1985

An empirical broad spectrum antibiotic therapy in health-care-associated infections improves survival in patients with cirrhosis: A randomized trial

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

Atorvastatin-induced prolonged cholestasis with bile duct damage

scientific article published in January 2010

Bacterial resistance in cirrhotic patients: An emerging reality

scientific article published on 08 January 2012

Basal energy production rate and substrate use in stable cirrhotic patients

scientific article published on 01 July 1990

Beta-blockers in patients with cirrhosis and infections: don't blame too soon!

scientific article published on 03 March 2015

Bone disorders in patients with chronic liver disease awaiting liver transplantation.

scientific article published on May 2010

Branched-chain amino acids vs lactulose in the treatment of hepatic coma: a controlled study

scientific article published in October 1982

Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Experimental Cirrhosis in the Rat: A Reappraisal of the Model

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Cardiac dysfunction in cirrhosis is not associated with the severity of liver disease.

scientific article published on 5 September 2012

Changes in nutritional status after liver transplantation

scientific article

Cholestasis induced by total parenteral nutrition

scientific article published on February 2008

Chronic Kidney Disease After Liver Transplantation

scientific article published on 01 May 2013

Cirrhotic Patients Are at Risk for Health Care–Associated Bacterial Infections

scientific article published on 12 August 2010

Clinical efficacy of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt created with covered stents with different diameters: Results of a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 27 April 2010

Clinical nutrition practice in Italian Gastroenterology Units

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Cognitive Impairment Predicts The Occurrence Of Hepatic Encephalopathy After Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt

scientific article

Combined liver-kidney transplantation in polycystic disease: case reports.

scientific article published in July 2008

Composition of free fatty acids and adipose tissue triglycerides in portacaval shunted rats

scientific article published in January 1987

Conversion from twice-daily to once-daily tacrolimus administration in liver transplant patient.

scientific article published in May 2010

Corrigendum to “Sarcopenia in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Targeting the real culprit?” [J Hepatol 63 (2015) 309–311]

scholarly article published in Journal of Hepatology

Cost analysis for the prevention of variceal rebleeding: A comparison between transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt and endoscopic sclerotherapy in a selected group of italian cirrhotic patients

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Depression, anxiety and alexithymia symptoms are major determinants of health related quality of life (HRQoL) in cirrhotic patients

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

Diagnosis, treatment and survival of patients with hepatorenal syndrome: A survey on daily medical practice

scientific article published on 13 April 2011

Dietary and nutritional indications in hepatic encephalopathy

scientific article published on 04 December 2008

Differential vascular endothelial growth factor A protein expression between small hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis correlates with serum vascular endothelial growth factor A and alpha-fetoprotein

scientific article

Do we really need alternatives to polymorphonuclear cells counting in ascitic fluid?

scientific article published on 25 December 2008

Does cirrhotic cardiomyopathy exist? 50 years of uncertainty

scientific article published on September 2013

Does malnutrition affect survival in cirrhosis? PINC (Policentrica Italiana Nutrizione Cirrosi).

scientific article published in May 1996

ESPEN guidelines for nutrition in liver disease and transplantation

scientific article

Early postprandial energy expenditure and macronutrient use after a mixed meal in cirrhotic patients

scientific article published in September 1992

Editorial: von Willebrand factor and CRP levels may predict survival in liver cirrhosis

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Effect of Lactitol and Lactulose Administration on the Fecal Flora in Cirrhotic Patients

scientific article published on 01 August 1990

Effect of a Medium Dose of Ursodeoxycholic Acid with or without Taurine Supplementation on the Nutritional Status of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis

scientific article published on 01 August 1994

Effect of blood ammonia elevation following oral glutamine load on the psychometric performance of cirrhotic patients

scientific article published in March 2003

Effect of lactitol on blood ammonia response to oral glutamine challenge in cirrhotic patients: evidence for an effect of nonabsorbable disaccharides on small intestine ammonia generation

scientific article published in November 1999

Efficacy of current guidelines for the treatment of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in the clinical practice

scientific article published on May 2008

Endoscopic screening for esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Evidence of persistent cognitive impairment after resolution of overt hepatic encephalopathy

scientific article published on 15 October 2010

Factors associated with poor health-related quality of life of patients with cirrhosis

scientific article

Failure of hepatitis B vaccination to induce either humoral or cellular immune response after liver transplantation for hepatitis B related cirrhosis

scientific article published on 11 October 2005

Fatty acid composition of adipose tissue in patients with chronic liver disease

scientific article published on January 1986

From meetings

Glial fibrillary acidic protein as an early marker of hepatic stellate cell activation in chronic and posttransplant recurrent hepatitis C.

scientific article published on June 2008

Glucose intolerance and insulin resistance in cirrhosis are normalized after liver transplantation

scientific article published in September 1999

Glucose intolerance in liver cirrhosis

scientific article published on 01 June 1982

Graft macrosteatosis and time of T-tube removal as risk factors for biliary strictures after liver transplantation.

scientific article published on 6 May 2013

Hepatic Encephalopathy and Sarcopenia: Two Faces of the Same Metabolic Alteration

scientific article published on 05 May 2018

Hepatic encephalopathy 2018: A clinical practice guideline by the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver (AISF)

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

scientific article published on 04 January 2012

Hepatic encephalopathy expands the predictivity of model for end-stage liver disease in liver transplant setting: Evidence by means of 2 independent cohorts

scientific article published on 19 July 2016

Hepatic encephalopathy in patients with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension: Description, prevalence and risk factors

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Hepatic encephalopathy: lack of changes of gamma-aminobutyric acid content in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid.

scientific article

High prevalence of spontaneous portal-systemic shunts in persistent hepatic encephalopathy: a case-control study

scientific article published in November 2005

Immune-mediated liver dysfunction after antiviral treatment in liver transplanted patients with hepatitis C: allo or autoimmune de novo hepatitis?

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

Impact of anti-hepatitis B core-positive donors in liver transplantation: a survival analysis

scientific article published on January 2011

Impaired nonoxidative glucose metabolism in patients with liver cirrhosis: Effects of two insulin doses

scientific article published on 01 July 1997

Improvement of nutritional status in malnourished cirrhotic patients one year after liver transplantation

Incidence and natural history of small esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients

scientific article published in March 2003

Incidence, natural history, and risk factors of hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt with polytetrafluoroethylene-covered stent grafts

scientific article

Increased nonoxidative glucose metabolism in idiopathic reactive hypoglycemia

scientific article

Increased risk of cognitive impairment in cirrhotic patients with bacterial infections

scientific article published on 21 March 2013

Interaction between infection and hepatic encephalopathy

scientific article published on 27 October 2014

Intractable Hepatic Encephalopathy After Tips with Polytetrafluoroethylene-covered Stent-Graft

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Intravascular hemolysis and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent shunt

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Is hyperammonemia really the true cause of altered neuropsychology, brain MR spectroscopy and magnetization transfer after an oral amino acid load in cirrhosis?

scientific article published in September 2003

Long-term effect of liver transplantation on cirrhotic autonomic cardiac dysfunction

scientific article published on 21 June 2009

Long-term maintenance of sustained virological response in liver transplant recipients treated for recurrent hepatitis C.

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Long-term outcomes of direct acting antivirals in post-transplant advanced hepatitis C virus recurrence and fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis.

scientific article

Low-dose intramuscular hepatitis B immune globulin and lamivudine for long-term prophylaxis of hepatitis B recurrence after liver transplantation.

scientific article published in April 2004

MELD score is better than Child–Pugh score in predicting 3-month survival of patients undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

MELDNa score is associated with psychopathology and reduced quality of life in cirrhotic patients with a liver transplant perspective

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

Malnutrition is a risk factor in cirrhotic patients undergoing surgery

scientific article

Malnutrition is not related to alterations in energy balance in patients with stable liver cirrhosis

scientific article published in December 2003

Management of hepatic encephalopathy as an inpatient

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk after liver transplantation: a single-center experience

scientific article published in September 2012

Microbial translocation and T cell activation are modified by direct-acting antiviral therapy in HCV-infected patients

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Microbiota and the gut-liver axis: bacterial translocation, inflammation and infection in cirrhosis

scientific article

Modifications of cardiac function in cirrhotic patients treated with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)

MuRF-1 and p-GSK3β expression in muscle atrophy of cirrhosis

scientific article published on 24 February 2013

Multiclass HCV resistance to direct-acting antiviral failure in real-life patients advocates for tailored second-line therapies

scientific article

Muscle depletion increases the risk of overt and minimal hepatic encephalopathy: results of a prospective study

scientific article

Muscle mass vs. adipose tissue to predict outcome in cirrhosis: Which matters and in which patients?

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

NADPH oxidase-mediated platelet isoprostane over-production in cirrhotic patients: implication for platelet activation

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Natural history of patients with non cirrhotic portal hypertension: Comparison with patients with compensated cirrhosis

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

No effect of albumin infusion on the prevention of hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Nutrition and Hepatic Encephalopathy

Nutritional state and energy balance in cirrhotic patients with or without hypermetabolism☆Multicentre prospective study by the ‘Nutritional Problems in Gastroenterology’ Section of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology (SIGE)

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Nutritional status and liver transplantation

scientific article published on December 2011

Nutritional status: its influence on the outcome of patients undergoing liver transplantation

scientific article published on 14 October 2009

Nutritional supplementation with branched-chain amino acids in advanced cirrhosis: a double-blind, randomized trial.

scientific article

Occurrence of Chronic Renal Failure in Liver Transplantation: Monitoring of Pre- and Posttransplantation Renal Function

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Ombitasvir, paritaprevir, and ritonavir, with or without dasabuvir, plus ribavirin for patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 1 or 4 infection with cirrhosis (ABACUS): a prospective observational study

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Outcome After Liver Transplantation in Patients With Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Patient and physician views on the quality of care in inflammatory bowel disease: Results from SOLUTION-1, a prospective IG-IBD study

Pediatric sarcopenia: exploring a new concept in children with chronic liver disease

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Peripheral and splanchnic indole and oxindole levels in cirrhotic patients: a study on the pathophysiology of hepatic encephalopathy

scientific article published on 2 February 2010

Phagocytosis of gadolinium chloride or zymosan induces simultaneous upregulation of hepcidin- and downregulation of hemojuvelin- and Fpn-1-gene expression in murine liver.

scientific article published on 31 August 2009

Pharmacological prophylaxis of hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: a randomized controlled study

scientific article published in May 2005

Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid amino acid patterns in hepatic encephalopathy.

scientific article

Polytetrafluoroethylene-covered stent grafts for TIPS procedure: 1-year patency and clinical results

scientific article published in February 2004

Polyunsaturated fatty acids balance affects platelet NOX2 activity in patients with liver cirrhosis

scientific article published on 2 April 2014

Predictive Factors of Outcome After Liver Transplantation in Patients With Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Predictive factors of recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation: a multivariate analysis.

scientific article

Predictors of mortality in non-neutropenic patients with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: does galactomannan have a role?

scientific article published on 21 May 2014

Preharvest donor hyperoxia predicts good early graft function and longer graft survival after liver transplantation

scientific article published in February 2005

Presence of multiple bacterial markers in clinical samples might be useful for presumptive diagnosis of infection in cirrhotic patients with culture-negative reports

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Prevalent use of combined prophylaxis of hepatitis B after liver transplantation in Italy: results of a national survey in a large cohort

scientific article published in March 2018

Previous overt hepatic encephalopathy rather than minimal hepatic encephalopathy impairs health-related quality of life in cirrhotic patients

scientific article published on 15 August 2011

QT interval in patients with non-cirrhotic portal hypertension and in cirrhotic patients treated with transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunt

RIFLE criteria and hepatic function in the assessment of acute renal failure in liver transplantation

scientific article published in May 2010

Randomized controlled study of TIPS versus paracentesis plus albumin in cirrhosis with severe ascites

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Recent Developments in Trace Element Analysis in the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Diseases

Recipient Interleukin-28B Rs12979860 C/T Polymorphism and Acute Cellular Rejection After Liver Transplantation

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Recipient perioperative cholesterolaemia and graft cholesterol metabolism gene expression predict liver transplant outcome

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Reduced Plasma Levels of sCD14 and I-FABP in HIV-infected Patients with Mesalazine-treated Ulcerative Colitis.

scientific article

Reply to: "The Possible Role of Anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococus Aureus Antimicrobial Agents in Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis".

scientific article

Reply to: “Myokines: a promising therapeutic target for hepatic encephalopathy”

scientific article published on 06 February 2017

Resistance to insulin suppression of plasma free fatty acids in liver cirrhosis

scientific article published in November 1990

Ribavirin priming improves the virological response to antiviral treatment in transplanted patients with recurrent hepatitis C: a pilot study

scientific article published in January 2011

Role of determination of partial pressure of ammonia in cirrhotic patients with and without hepatic encephalopathy

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Sarcopenia Is Risk Factor for Development of Hepatic Encephalopathy After Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement

scientific article published on 2 November 2016

Sarcopenia from mechanism to diagnosis and treatment in liver disease

scientific article published on 8 August 2016

Sarcopenia in liver cirrhosis: the role of computed tomography scan for the assessment of muscle mass compared with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometry

scientific article published on March 2015

Sarcopenia in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Targeting the real culprit?

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Session 2: Predictive Models in Portal Hypertension

Short-term oral zinc supplementation does not improve chronic hepatic encephalopathy. Results of a double-blind crossover trial

scientific article

Skeletal muscle myopenia in mice model of bile duct ligation and carbon tetrachloride-induced liver cirrhosis.

scientific article

Splanchnic and leg exchange of free fatty acids in patients with liver cirrhosis

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis Due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in a Patient with Cirrhosis: The Potential Role for Daptomycin and Review of the Literature

scientific article

Survival at 2 years among liver cirrhotic patients is influenced by left atrial volume and left ventricular mass

scientific article published on 26 October 2016

Terlipressin plus albumin versus midodrine and octreotide plus albumin in the treatment of hepatorenal syndrome: A randomized trial

The Effect of 12 Weeks of β-Hydroxy-β-Methyl-Butyrate Supplementation after Liver Transplantation: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study

scientific article published on 19 September 2019

The Effect of Lactulose and Lactitol Administration on Fecal Fat Excretion in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

scientific article published on 01 September 1992

The chronic use of beta-blockers and proton pump inhibitors may affect the rate of bacterial infections in cirrhosis

scientific article

The natural history of portal hypertensive gastropathy in patients with liver cirrhosis and mild portal hypertension

scientific article published in October 2004

The spread of multi drug resistant infections is leading to an increase in the empirical antibiotic treatment failure in cirrhosis: a prospective survey

scientific article

Total and individual free fatty acid concentrations in liver cirrhosis

scientific article published on July 1984

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt versus endoscopic sclerotherapy for the prevention of variceal bleeding in cirrhosis: A randomized multicenter trial

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt with expanded-polytetrafuoroethylene-covered stents in non-cirrhotic patients with portal cavernoma

scientific article published on 15 July 2010

Treatment of genotype-1 hepatitis C recurrence after liver transplant improves survival in both sustained responders and relapsers

scientific article published on 11 December 2012

Treatment of hepatitis C recurrence is less successful in female than in male liver transplant recipients

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

Validation of automated blood cell counter for the determination of polymorphonuclear cell count in the ascitic fluid of cirrhotic patients with or without spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

scientific article

Weight Gain and De Novo Metabolic Disorders after Liver Transplantation

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

What is new about diet in hepatic encephalopathy

scientific article

Zinc supplementation reduces blood ammonia and increases liver ornithine transcarbamylase activity in experimental cirrhosis

scientific article published on 01 September 1992

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