Early predictors of corticosteroid response in acute severe autoimmune hepatitis: a nationwide multicenter study.
Luis TéllezEugenia Sánchez RodríguezEnrique Rodriguez de SantiagoLaura LlovetAna Gómez-OutomuroFernando Díaz-FontenlaPatricia Álvarez LópezMaría García-ElizCarla AmaralYolanda Sánchez-TorrijosJosé Ignacio ForteaCarlos Ferre-AracilManuel Luis Rodríguez-PerálvarezMarta AbadíaJudith Gómez-CamareroAntonio OlveiraJose Luis CallejaJavier CrespoManuel RomeroManuel Hernández-GuerraMarina BerenguerMar RiveiroMagdalena SalcedoManuel RodríguezMaría Carlota LondoñoAgustín AlbillosPublished in: Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics (2022)
Older patients with high MELD, encephalopathy or ascites at steroid therapy initiation and during treatment are unlikely to show a favourable response and so prolonged therapy in these patients, especially if they are transplantation candidates, should be avoided.