[Experience of continuing online education in gastroenterology for non specialist medical doctors].

Background: Continuing education is essential for health professions and online courses can be a good way for professional development.

Aim: To describe the experience with online courses for continuing education in hepatology and gastroenterology and to analyze their educational impact.

Material And Methods: A three years' experience in courses on liver diseases and digestive tract is described.

[Comparative evaluation of survival prognosis using MELD or Child-Pugh scores in patients with liver cirrhosis in Chile].

Background: Currently, most liver units use the Child-Pugh (CP) or the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scores to establish survival prognosis among patients with liver cirrhosis. Which classification is superior, is not well defined.

Aim: To compare CP and MELD classification scores to predict survival among adult patients with liver cirrhosis in Chile.

Management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: an evidence-based clinical practice review.

Aim: To build a consensus among Chilean specialists on the appropriate management of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in clinical practice.

Methods: NAFLD has now reached epidemic proportions worldwide. The optimal treatment for NAFLD has not been established due to a lack of evidence-based recommendations.

[General considerations, indications and contraindications for liver transplantation in Chile: a multicenter consensus development document].

Liver transplantation is an excellent therapeutic option for terminal liver disease. During the last decades the results of liver transplantation have improved significantly with a patient survival rate of nearly 90% at one year and 80% at 5 years of follow-up. The main indications for liver transplantation include: end-stage liver disease associated to cirrhosis, acute liver failure, and hepatic tumors (mainly hepatocarcinoma).

[Octreotide administration and/or endoscopic treatment in cirrhotic patients with acute variceal bleeding: a multicentric study].

Background: Acute variceal bleeding in cirrhotic patients is an emergency with a high risk of rebleeding and death. Endoscopic procedures such as sclerotherapy or banding, combined or not with drugs such as octreotide could be considered.

Aim: To assess the value of octreotide in the control of acute variceal bleeding.

[Liver transplantation in adults: a caseload from Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Chile].

Background: The success of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) has resulted in its widespread use for different liver diseases.

Aim: To report our 8 years experience with adult OLT at Clinica Alemana de Santiago.

Patients And Methods: In all transplantations done at the center, we recorded patient's overall data and survival, postoperative medical and surgical complications and causes of death.