Hepatic recompensation according to Baveno VII criteria is linked to a significant survival benefit in decompensated alcohol-related cirrhosis.

Benedikt Silvester Hofer Benedikt Simbrunner Lukas Hartl Mathias Jachs Lorenz Balcar Rafael Paternostro Philipp Schwabl Georg Semmler Bernhard Scheiner Michael Trauner Mattias Mandorfer Thomas Reiberger

Published in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2023)

Alcohol abstinence led to recompensation in 18.1% of our cohort of HVPG-characterised patients with decompensated alcohol-related cirrhosis. Achieving hepatic recompensation resulted in a >90% risk reduction in liver-related mortality.

Keyphrases

heart failure
alcohol consumption
type diabetes
ejection fraction
cardiovascular events
coronary artery disease
liver failure
drug induced