Hepatitis C-related cirrhosis will be a marginal cause of hospital admissions by 2025.

Background & Aims: Complications of cirrhosis are the main cause of hospital admissions in liver units. In areas where HCV is prevalent, most of these admissions are attributable to HCV-related cirrhosis (HCV-cirrhosis). This study assessed the impact of direct-acting antivirals (DAA) in the profile of patients with liver disease admitted to a referral liver unit from a university hospital.

[Corrected QT interval during therapeutic hypothermia in hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy].

Introduction: Therapeutic hypothermia is the standard treatment for hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE), despite not knowing all its effects and complications. Sinus bradycardia is one of the consequences of cooling that has been previously documented in the literature, but little is known about the cardiac electrical activity in these patients.

Objective: To determine the corrected QT (QTc) interval in newborns treated with therapeutic hypothermia for HIE.