[Medical Treatment of Alcoholic Liver Disease].

[Medical Treatment of Alcoholic Liver Disease]. Korean J Gastroenterol. 2020 Aug 25;76(2):65-70 Authors: Song DS Abstract Alcoholic liver disease is a major cause of liver disease that results in significant morbidity and mortality in Korea. Abstinence is the most important strategy to prevent disease progression. Corticosteroids improve the one-month survival in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis, but it was not effective on long-term survival. An N-acetylcysteine treatment combined with corticosteroids may provide a short-term survival benefit than corticosteroids alone. Pentoxifylline is unlikely to affect short-term survival. Hence, studies on new therapies, such as granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and fecal microbiota transplantation, are ongoing. This paper briefly reviews the current knowledge of the medical treatment of alcoholic liver disease. PMID: 32839368 [PubMed - in process]
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