Publications by authors named "M Barreales"

Article Synopsis
  • The study investigates gender disparities in access to liver transplantation in Spain, focusing on the performance of the Gender-Equity Model adjusted by serum sodium (GEMA-Na) compared to the traditional Model for End-stage Liver Disease 3.0 (MELD 3.0).
  • It includes a nationwide cohort of 6,071 patients and finds that women have lower access to transplantation and a higher risk of mortality or delisting within the first 90 days.
  • GEMA-Na shows better predictive accuracy for waiting list outcomes than MELD 3.0, suggesting it could be the preferred method for prioritizing patients on the liver transplant waiting list.
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Background And Aims: Alcohol relapse after surviving an episode of alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) is common. However, the clinical features, risk factors, and prognostic implications of recurrent alcohol-associated hepatitis (RAH) are not well described.

Approach And Results: A registry-based study was done of patients admitted to 28 Spanish hospitals for an episode of AH between 2014 and 2021.

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Background: COVID-19 is a potentially severe disease caused by the recently described SARS-CoV-2. Whether liver fibrosis might be a relevant player in the natural history of COVID-19 is currently unknown. We aimed to evaluate the association between FIB-4 and the risk of progression to critical illness in middle-aged patients with COVID-19.

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