~99% of patients diagnosed with NAFLD in the Target RWE ✨💊🔬 pragmatic real-world cohort meet MASLD criteria. Inferences made from NAFLD research are applicable to patients with MASLD.

We had the privilege to host the great Jasmohan Bajaj for grand rounds UNC Gastroenterology ! Lots of learning about💩 and the🧠!

New from DILIN! Amiodarone hepatotoxicity resembles alcohol related liver injury, with steatosis and inflammation Lily Dara Raj VuppaLanchi sidbarritt4
Amiodarone and Dronedarone Causes Liver Injury with Distinctly Different Clinical Presentations pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38416280/

Congrats to UNC Gastroenterology super🌟 Gabi Ritaccio & team on this scoping review of values elicitation tools for treatment decisions in HCC revealing many important treatment attributes for patients and providers

Thanks to AASLD Foundation for funding support!

bmcgastroenterol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

📑 Qualitative study among patients with #HCC treated with locoregional therapies

🔵Post-treatment symptoms are common and often severe
🔵Patients express interest in post-treatment PRO monitoring

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Just in time for lunch, Neil Shah, MD teaches us about improving frailty and sarcopenia in patients with cirrhosis.
Give a prescription for exercise! FITT
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Kicking off our 2nd session with our Chief of Abdominal Surgery, Dr. Chirag Desai, as he introduces our new living donor liver transplant program at UNC to help bridge the gap and address disparities in transplant! UNC Liver Center UNC Surgery

High Impact Hepatology is underway! Fantastic guest speaker Patricia Jones discussing HCC and disparities. Thank you Dr. Jones!

Congrats Andrew Moon !

Great work Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD ! We are very proud of you!

Thankful to the AASLD Foundation and to all the inspiring mentors out there like sidbarritt4

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Very proud of our own Neil Shah, MD ! A grateful patient and his family came to honor Dr. Shah with this beautiful robe reserved for respected elders and visiting dignitaries in Liberia. UNC Gastroenterology UNC Department of Medicine UNC Surgery Way to go Neil!

A yellow flower with jaundice power! Did you know Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus) which has been used to relieve various GI ailments can also cause DILI? #GITwitter #LiverTwitter , make sure to ask your patients about ALL medications including herbal supplements! #ACG2023

Great practical review on how to build an INTEGRATED TEAM to treat people with ALCOHOL use disorder and associated liver disease.

Proud of the work UNC Liver Center is doing to provide a holistic approach.

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Had the pleasure of writing a review with one of UNC’s awesome substance use counselors (Heather Gallagher) on our spin on multidisciplinary mgmt of alcohol use disorder and liver disease.

Check it out:
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When is DILI not DILI? Among alternative diagnosis for presumed DILI, autoimmune hepatitis was the most common in a recent study. Thorough evaluation, including long term follow-up, is essential to minimize incorrect diagnoses of idiosyncratic DILI.
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Last week we had the honor of hosting AASLD President Norah Terrault for the 2nd annual Fried Lecture in Chronic Liver Disease. Dr. Terrault gave a fantastic presentation on viral hepatitis for UNC Department of Medicine grand rounds and spoke with our @UNCgastro fellows. A great day!

Congratulations to Sasha Deutsch-Link, MD, a rising star in the field of alcohol-associated liver disease, for her AASLD Foundation Award!

We are proud to have her at UNC Gastroenterology and the UNC Liver Center as a transplant hepatology fellow

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