1. Addressing Profiles of Systemic Inflammation Across the Different Clinical Phenotypes of Acutely Decompensated Cirrhosis
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Jonel Trebicka, Alex Amoros, Carla Pitarch, Esther Titos, José Alcaraz-Quiles, Robert Schierwagen, Carmen Deulofeu, Javier Fernandez-Gomez, Salvatore Piano, Paolo Caraceni, Karl Oettl, Elsa Sola, Wim Laleman, Jane McNaughtan, Rajeshwar P. Mookerjee, Minneke J. Coenraad, Tania Welzel, Christian Steib, Rita Garcia, Thierry Gustot, Miguel A. Rodriguez Gandia, Rafael Bañares, Agustin Albillos, Stefan Zeuzem, Victor Vargas, Faouzi Saliba, Frederic Nevens, Carlo Alessandria, Andrea de Gottardi, Heinz Zoller, Pere Ginès, Tilman Sauerbruch, Alexander Gerbes, Rudolf E. Stauber, Mauro Bernardi, Paolo Angeli, Marco Pavesi, Richard Moreau, Joan Clària, Rajiv Jalan, and Vicente Arroyo
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acute decompensation ,cirrhosis ,signature ,ACLF ,organ failure ,organ dysfunction ,Immunologic diseases. Allergy ,RC581-607 - Abstract
Background: Patients with acutely decompensated cirrhosis (AD) may or may not develop acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). ACLF is characterized by high-grade systemic inflammation, organ failures (OF) and high short-term mortality. Although patients with AD cirrhosis exhibit distinct clinical phenotypes at baseline, they have low short-term mortality, unless ACLF develops during follow-up. Because little is known about the association of profile of systemic inflammation with clinical phenotypes of patients with AD cirrhosis, we aimed to investigate a battery of markers of systemic inflammation in these patients.Methods: Upon hospital admission baseline plasma levels of 15 markers (cytokines, chemokines, and oxidized albumin) were measured in 40 healthy controls, 39 compensated cirrhosis, 342 AD cirrhosis, and 161 ACLF. According to EASL-CLIF criteria, AD cirrhosis was divided into three distinct clinical phenotypes (AD-1: Creatinine
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- 2019
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