Executive summary Liver diseases have become a major health threat across Europe, and
the face of European hepatology is changing due to the cure of viral hepatitis C and the …

In medicine, language matters and the words used to name and describe a disease can
have a profound impact on patients and their families. Over the last two decades, many …

Non-invasive tests are increasingly being used to improve the diagnosis and
prognostication of chronic liver diseases across aetiologies. Herein, we provide the latest …

Liver fibrosis is the excessive expression and accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins in
the liver. Fibrotic scarring occurs as the consequence of chronic injury and inflammation …

The liver is an essential immunological organ due to its gatekeeper position to bypassing
antigens from the intestinal blood flow and microbial products from the intestinal …

Comment 622 www. thelancet. com Vol 392 August 25, 2018 populations. 1, 17 Viral
hepatitis B and D will, however, remain major challenges in terms of drug development and …

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)
prevalence has increased in the past two decades, resulting in a significant but under …

Executive summary Liver diseases have become a major health threat across Europe, and
the face of European hepatology is changing due to the cure of viral hepatitis C and the …

Since 2014, the Governing Board of the European Association for the Study of Liver (EASL)
has thoroughly explored the opportunities of setting up a foundation that could complement …

It has been nearly four decades since Susan Sontag brought to attention the metaphorical
meanings of illness and the consequences of these meanings for the ways that illness is …