Vulnerability to recurrent episodes of acute decompensation/acute-on-chronic liver failure characterizes those triggered by indeterminate precipitants in patients with liver cirrhosis.

Hitomi HoshiPo-Sung ChuAya YoshidaNobuhito TanikiRei MorikawaKarin YamatakaFumie NoguchiRyosuke KasugaTakaya TabuchiHirotoshi EbinumaHidetsugu SaitoTakanori KanaiNobuhiro Nakamoto

Published in: PloS one (2021)

AD/ACLFIND, the leading acute precipitant, also plays a role in subsequent AD/ACLF. An abruptly exacerbating, remitting, and relapsing nature of systemic inflammation underlying AD/ACLF may also be useful for risk estimation.

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