Limited access to liver transplantation and TIPS despite high mortality, healthcare resource use and costs of cirrhosis in Germany.
Christian M LangeJonel TrebickaAlexander GerbesAli CanbayAndreas GeierUta MerleMarkus Peck-RadosavljevicFrank TackeTobias VogelmannSina TheisHartmut HeinzeAlexander ZipprichPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2023)
Patients with cirrhosis have a high healthcare burden in especially decompensated stage. Accordingly, 1-year mortality of decompensated cirrhosis in Germany is high. Despite high health resource utilization, only few patients have access to liver transplantation or TIPS.