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ReviewNature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology2025

Preventing the progression of cirrhosis to decompensation and death.

Càndid Villanueva, Dhiraj Tripathi, Jaume Bosch

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Review in Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Low-Dose vs. Standard Care Iv Human Albumin During Large-Volume Paracentesis in Patients With Liver Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  3. Drug Development for MASH-Related Compensated Cirrhosis: Past, Present and Future.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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  6. Preventing First and Further Decompensation in Advanced Chronic Liver Disease.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Càndid VillanuevaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain. cvillanueva@santpau.cat.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3674-914X
Dhiraj TripathiLiver Unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9043-6382
Jaume BoschCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Sanidad, Madrid, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3414-0055

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two main stages are differentiated in patients with advanced chronic liver disease (ACLD), one compensated (cACLD) with an excellent prognosis, and the other decompensated (dACLD), defined by the appearance of complications (ascites, variceal bleeding and hepatic encephalopathy) and associated with high mortality. Preventing the progression to dACLD might dramatically improve prognosis and reduce the burden of care associated with ACLD. Portal hypertension is a major driver of the transition from cACLD to dACLD, and a portal pressure of ≥10 mmHg defines clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH) as the threshold from which decompensating events may occur. In recent years, innovative studies have provided evidence supporting new strategies to prevent decompensation in cACLD. These studies have yielded major advances, including the development of noninvasive tests (NITs) to identify patients with CSPH with reasonable confidence, the demonstration that aetiological therapies can prevent disease progression and even achieve regression of cirrhosis, and the finding that non-selective β-blockers can effectively prevent decompensation in patients with cACLD and CSPH, mainly by reducing the risk of ascites, the most frequent decompensating event. Here, we review the evidence supporting new strategies to manage cACLD to prevent decompensation and the caveats for their implementation, from patient selection using NITs to ancillary therapies.

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Hypertension, PortalLiver CirrhosisAdrenergic beta-AntagonistsAscitesDisease ProgressionEsophageal and Gastric VaricesHepatic EncephalopathyHumansPrognosisAdrenergic beta-Antagonists

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