Key concepts for diagnosing and treating alcohol-associated hepatitis for hospitalists
A new Annals for Hospitalists Inpatient Notes feature reviewed the diagnosis and medical management of patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis.
The most recent Annals for Hospitalists Inpatient Notes, published in the June Annals of Internal Medicine, focused on alcohol-associated hepatitis.
The medical management of patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis should be multidisciplinary and include specific treatment with corticosteroids, as well as nutritional support, checkup of infections, treatment of decompensations of cirrhosis, and treatment of alcohol use disorder, according to the authors. The article also reviewed diagnosis, risk assessment, and liver transplant.