Endoscopic #variceal #ligation (EVL) is safe in pts with high #INR ⬆️ and low #platelets⬇️
😮618 pts - 🤙1178 procedures
🩸2.6% procedure-related bleedings
NOT more frequent if #INR >1.5 or #platelets <50
@my_ueg @EASLedu @OEGGH_AUT
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Thomas Reiberger
1,384 posts
Professor of Hepatology @MedUni_Wien
Director CD-Lab for #PortalHypertension & #LiverFibrosis
Adjunct PI @CeMM_News
Head @CrgMOTION
Secretary @BavenoCoop
- 🎓 Professor @MedUni_Wien i feel honored 🙏 supported by friend-colleagues😷 & family 👪 🙏 lessons from patients & animal🐭 models 🙏 guided by mentors (@MarkusPeck1 @MassimoPinzani @jaumebosch9) 🙏societies @EASLnews @OEGGH_AUT @my_ueg @BavenoCoop t.ly/NhLzj
- 🚨 #LiverTwitter Anticoagulation improves survival in patients with cirrhosis and portal vein thrombosis (PVT): The IMPORTAL competing-risk meta-analysis 📕 @JHepatology @EASLnews authors.elsevier.com/c/1h3RJcOnAQmu…
- #BavenoVII concept of #cirrhosis #recompensation: 🧐 natural history of hepatic recompensation 🔀modifying factors ❓non-invasive biomarkers of recompensation ⚙️molecular mechanisms of disease regression #livertwitter 📕sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
- #LiverTwitter #Cirrhosis What is decompensation in patients with cirrhosis? 🩸Bleeding 💧Ascites 🧠Encephalopathy ... but actually there is a lot more to discuss... 📕the thoughts of @Florent_Artru and myself 📕 @JHepatology tinyurl.com/yvpsxn6h
- 🚨#LiverTwitter 📕 new Meta-Analysis in @Gut_BMJ by @DrLoomba pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37491159/ ‼️ 1.832.125 pts with #Diabetes: ➡️ 65% had #NAFLD #MASLD #FattyLiver 🔥 32% had #NASH #MASH 😱 15% had F3-F4 #Fibrosis #ACLD 😷🫵 Efforts are required to combat #MASLD #NASH & #cirrhosis
- The @BavenoVII Book is out: 📕latest #evidence on #cirrhosis and #portalhypertension 😷 recommendations for the clinical #management of patients with #cirrhosis and #portalhypertension link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… #livertwitter @jaumebosch9 @docberza @ggarciatsao @crisripol
- Thank you @EASLnews and @JHepatology for Best Reviewer Awards @salvatore_piano and @MPraktiknjo (not on the picture) and myself (@ReibergerThomas) are grateful for the opportunity to evaluate articles for our Top Journal!
- Non-invasive assessment of #Liver disease? #Elastography to measure liver #stiffness (#LSM) informs about liver #fibrosis ! #Elastography to measure #spleen stiffness (#SSM) informs about #portlhypertension ! We are now launching a prospective European #SSM multicenter study!
- The @BavenoCoop Executive Committee (EC) united in real life 🤝 #PortalHypertension virtual General Assembly today! President @jaumebosch9 Chair @ggarciatsao ViceChair @docberza Secretary @crisripol Secretary @ReibergerThomas #LiverTwitter @EASLnews
- (New?) Standard-of-Care for Secondary prophylaxis of #Varicealbleeding: #CARVEDILOL and endoscopic #bandligation Article in #ClinGastroenterolHepatol 2022 @AGA_CGH doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.…
- #cirrhosis #portalhypertension: after #varicealbleeding (in #secondaryprophylaxis) #Carvedilol reduces #HVPG more potently than #propranolol: ✅ lower #rebleeding rates ✅ fewer liver-related #Deaths ✅ less non-bleeding decompensation @AGA_CGH @EASLedu doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.…
- #LiverTwitter ❓Is There a Safe #Alcohol Consumption #Limit for the General Population and in Patients with #LiverDisease for healthy subjects YES ✅ for patients with significant #liverfibrosis : NO 🛑















