ConferenceAmerican Journal of Gastroenterology · October 1, 2025
Introduction: Anti-CD20 agents confer about a 10% risk of hepatitis B virus (HBV) reactivation in individuals with positive surface antigen (sAg) or core antibody (cAb). AGA guidelines from 2025 recommend sAg and cAb testing prior to therapy initiation. De ...
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ConferenceHepatology · May 2022
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Surrogate endpoints that predict complications are necessary for assessment and approval of NASH therapies. We assessed associations between histologic and noninvasive tests (NITs) of fibrosis with liver-related complications in patien ...
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ConferenceLiver Transpl · September 2020
The aim of this study is to validate a proposed definition of sarcopenia in predicting wait-list mortality. We retrospectively evaluated 355 adults (age ≥18 years) with cirrhosis listed for first-time LT from January 1, 2010, to April 1, 2018 from our cent ...
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ConferenceAmerican Journal of Gastroenterology · October 2019
INTRODUCTION:Patients with alcoholic hepatitis suffer from high rates of malnutrition and are at risk for hypophosphatemia due to poor dietary intake, renal wasting, and r ...
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ConferenceHepatology · July 2018
UNLABELLED: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic liver disease associated with inflammation and biliary fibrosis that leads to cholangitis, cirrhosis, and impaired quality of life. Our objective was to develop and validate a PSC-specific patie ...
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ConferencePharmacogenet Genomics · November 2013
INTRODUCTION: Pharmacogenomic testing is important in developing individualized therapeutic approaches. In the phase 3 IDEAL (Individualized Dosing to Assess Optimal Pegylated Interferon Therapy) clinical trial, a subset of patients receiving peginterferon ...
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