Predictive factors for adverse outcomes in patients with COVID-19 are urgently needed. Data
related to the applicability of the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) for risk stratification in patients …

Background Compensated (Child-Pugh [CP] A) and decompensated (CP B/C) liver cirrhosis
significantly differs in terms of impairment of health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, …

Vacuolar processing enzymes ( VPE s) are important cysteine proteases that are implicated
in the maturation of seed storage proteins, and programmed cell death during plant–microbe …

Objective Prolonged monitoring times (72 hours) are recommended to detect paroxysmal
atrial fibrillation (pAF) after ischemic stroke but this is not yet clinical practice; therefore, an …

Background Diabetes mellitus may lead to increased serum ammonia and systemic
inflammation thereby promoting hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Aim To investigate the potential …

Background Systemic inflammation is a driving force for the development of hepatic encephalopathy
and recent studies demonstrated that elevated Interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) serum levels are …

Methods A total of 368 patients, who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) at our
institution, were assessed prior to OLT and followed for a median of 9.0 years (range 2.0–…

Background Diagnosis of covert hepatic encephalopathy (CHE) is time consuming in clinical
practice. Recently, a new diagnostic tool - the simplified Animal Naming Test (S-ANT1) - …

OBJECTIVES: Diagnosis of covert hepatic encephalopathy (CHE) is challenging and often
neglected in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to develop an easy-to-perform score …

Background: This study sought to investigate the prevalence and clinical outcome of left
ventricular (LV) geometry in prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and the impact of …