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Review
. 2013 Apr 24;2(2):84-88.
doi: 10.1002/cld.166. eCollection 2013 Apr.

Treatment of alcoholic hepatitis

Timothy R Morgan  1   2 , Daniel Chao  1   2 , Gregory Botwin  3
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Review

Treatment of alcoholic hepatitis

Timothy R Morgan et al. Clin Liver Dis (Hoboken). .
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Meta‐analysis of survival among subjects receiving prednisolone or placebo grouped according to the inclusion criteria used in the clinical trial. Prednisolone treatment was associated with improved survival in trials that enrolled subjects with Maddrey's discriminant function >31 or hepatic encephalopathy, but not in clinical trials that used other inclusion criteria nor when all trials were combined. Reprinted with permission from Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.12 Wiley‐Blackwell, 2008.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Meta‐analysis of survival among subjects receiving PTX or placebo. Reprinted with permission from: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.16 Wiley, 2009.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Six‐month survival among patients with AH randomized to receive 28 days of prednisolone or 28 days of prednisolone and 5 days of intravenous NAC. Reprinted with permission from The New England Journal of Medicine.22 Boston, Massachusetts Medical Society, 2011.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Kaplan‐Meier estimates of survival among 26 subjects with AH undergoing liver transplantation and randomly selected matched control subjects failing to respond to prednisolone (Lille score ≥0.45) and responding to prednisolone (Lille score <0.45). Reprinted with permission from The New England Journal of Medicine.23 Boston, Massachusetts Medical Society, 2011.
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