First things first! Can bacterial infections be considered as decompensating events per se?

J Hepatol. 2021 Nov;75(5):1241-1242. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.05.030. Epub 2021 Jun 6.

Authors

Matthias Christian Reichert¹, Cristina Ripoll²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany.
² Clinic for Internal Medicine IV: Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany. Electronic address: cristina_ripoll@yahoo.es.

PMID: 34107291
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.05.030

No abstract available

Keywords: Bacterial Infections; Clinically significant portal hypertension; Compensated cirrhosis; decompensation.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Bacterial Infections*
Esophageal and Gastric Varices*
Humans
Hypertension, Portal*