Recent Advances in Liver Cirrhosis Related Complications

Dr. Xingshun Qi is the director at the Department of Gastroenterology of the General Hospital of Northern Theater Command. His major research interests include clinical research in the etiology, diagnosis, and management of liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension, and hepatocellular carcinoma. He is serving as a senior editorial board member of BMC Gastroenterology, an academic editor of Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, an associate editor of Frontiers in Medicine, and an editorial board member of Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology. He has edited 11 English-language books and published more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Hong You practices in Beijing, China. Her top areas of expertise are schistosomiasis, distomatosis, cirrhosis, hepatitis B, and liver transplant. Her clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies. She has co-authored 358 articles in peer reviewed medical journals and participated in 8 clinical trials over the past 15 years.

• 1. Epidemiological insights into liver cirrhosisNahum Mendez-Sanchez, Mariana M. Ramırez-Mejıa and Deyanira Kusulas-Delint2. Diagnosis and risk stratification of liver cirrhosisHitoshi Maruyama3. Pathophysiology of portal hypertension in liver cirrhosisMauro Bernardi and Giacomo Zaccherini4. Gut microbiota in liver cirrhosisCyriac Abby Philips and Tharun Tom Oommen5. Ascites in liver cirrhosisXianxian Zhang, Cai’e Wang, Alastair O’Brien and Xingshun Qi6. Gastrointestinal bleeding in liver cirrhosisAmerah Taleb and Mostafa Ibrahim7. Hepatic encephalopathyJessica Faccioli, Stefania Gioia, Silvia Nardelli and Lorenzo Ridola8. Acute kidney injury in liver cirrhosisFlorence Wong9. Bacterial infections in liver cirrhosisMassimo Primignani10. Coagulation abnormality in liver cirrhosisElisa Zanatta, Marco Senzolo, Elena Campello, Paolo Simioni and Alberto Zanetto11. Splanchnic vein thrombosis in liver cirrhosisErica Villa and Stefano Gitto12. Splenomegaly and hypersplenism in liver cirrhosisRita Noversa de Sousa and Filipe Gaio Nery13. Pulmonary complications in liver cirrhosisThierry Thevenot, Sarah Raevens, Avinash Aujayeb, Jean-Franc¸ ois Cadranel, Bubu A. Banini and Hilary M. DubrockSubchapter 13.1: PortopulmonarySubchapter 13.2: Hepatic hydrothorax14. Cirrhotic cardiomyopathyOlivia Greenham and Rajeshwar Prosad Mookerjee15. Acute-on-chronic liver failureShahid Habib16. Hepatogenous diabetes in liver cirrhosisJose K. Hernandez Roman, Michael Attanasi and Sanjaya K. Satapathy17. Sarcopenia in liver cirrhosisSara Haj Ali, Tarek Mazzawi, Awni Abu Sneineh and Faten Marji18. Osteoporosis in liver cirrhosisTalles Bazeia Lima, Livia Alves Amaral Santos and Fernando Gomes Romeiro19. Hepatocellular carcinomaLampros Chrysavgis and Evangelos Cholongitas20. Prognostic models of cirrhotic patientsXiaoting Song, Yue Yinast;, Hong You and Xingshun Qi