Reducing liver fibrosis

2018-07-23

Pere Ginès

What would you recommend to your patients to reduce liver fibrosis?

Pere Ginès: Changing their lifestyle. I think that changing lifestyle—which means walking more, changing the diet of the patient, and reducing the amount of carbohydrates and fat—is much more important than increasing the number of coffee drinks [see Coffee and delaying liver fibrosis].

See also

Noninvasive diagnostic techniques in liver fibrosis Do noninvasive techniques for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis play a role in the treatment of liver disease?
H pylori: Transmission and reinfection after successful treatment Is Helicobacter pylori infection associated with a high risk of transmission to other persons or reinfection after successful treatment? Should family members of the patients be screened for H pylori infection?
Common causes of GI bleeding nowadays What is the most common cause of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding nowadays? Has the etiology of GI bleeding changed over the past decades?
FMT: Mode of delivery, use in ulcerative colitis How do you perform fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)? What is your experience with FMT in ulcerative colitis?
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: current management A lecture by Prof. Barry Lumb, from McMaster University, Canada, delivered at McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine in Kraków in May 2016.
Changing approaches to inflammatory bowel disease management A lecture by Prof. John Marshall, from McMaster University, Canada, delivered at McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine in Kraków in May 2016.

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