Successful therapy with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) does not guarantee amelioration of liver damage assessing by transient elastography. A retrospective - prospective multicenter study.

Background: Preventing disease progression and viral suppression are the main goals of antiviral therapy in chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by transient elastography is a reliable non-invasive method to assess liver fibrosis in patients with CHB. Our aim was to explore factors that may affect changes in LSMs during long term tenofovir (TDF) monotherapy in a well characterized cohort of patients with compensated CHB.

Efficacy of Newer Nucleos(t)ide Analogs After Hepatitis B Immunoglobulin Discontinuation Against Hepatitis B and D Recurrence in Liver Transplant Recipients.

Background: The use of nucleos(t)ide analogs (NAs) with a high genetic barrier to resistance, namely entecavir and tenofovir, has improved the efficacy of antiviral prophylaxis against hepatitis B virus (HBV) recurrence after liver transplantation (LT). However, the optimal duration and dosage of hepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIG) administration, particularly in patients transplanted for HBV and hepatitis D virus (HDV) coinfection, remains controversial.

Methods: We evaluated 28 patients transplanted for HBV/HDV cirrhosis.

New prognostic score based on galectin-3 has similar performance to model for end-stage liver disease and sodium score in patients with stable decompensated cirrhosis.

Background: Galectin-3 (gal-3) has been proposed as a marker of established renal impairment, with predictive value in stable decompensated cirrhosis.

Methods: 150 stable decompensated patients were assessed in 2 transplant centers. Patients' renal function was assessed using Chromium-EDTA ("true" glomerular filtration rate).

Symbolic dynamics of music from Europe and Japan.

After a brief introduction to the theory underlying block-entropy and its relation to the dynamics of complex systems as well as certain information theory aspects, we study musical texts coming from two distinct musical traditions, Japanese and Western European, encoded via symbolic dynamics. We quantify their information content, also known as the degree of "non-randomness" which essentially defines the complexity of the text. We analyze the departure of "total randomness" to the constraints underlying the dynamics of the symbol generating process.

The Effects of Exercise During a 10-Week Basic Military Training Program on the Physical Fitness and the Body Composition of the Greek Naval Cadets.

Introduction: The period of basic military training (BMT) is a sudden change in the individual habits of the trainees and is characterized by significant improvements in body composition such as the percentage of body fat (%BF) and lean body mass (BM). Research has shown that physical activity during the period of BMT lasting 7-10 weeks has positive effects on the physical condition and BM of cadets. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of training combining cardiovascular conditioning, circuit strength training, swimming, team sports, and obstacle course on physical fitness and body composition during a 10-week BMT period over 4 years in the Hellenic Naval Academy (HNA).

The significance of C-reactive protein to albumin ratio in patients with decompensated cirrhosis.

Background: Prognostic indicators in patients with decompensated cirrhosis are vital for the estimation of death risk. The ratio of C-reactive protein to albumin (CAR) has been verified as a prognostic marker in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and decompensated cirrhosis related to hepatitis B virus. Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), and gamma globulins have been separately studied in cirrhosis.

Decreased diversity of salivary microbiome in patients with stable decompensated cirrhosis.

Background: In the setting of the oral-gut-liver axis, microbiome dysbiosis has been associated with decompensated cirrhosis progression. However, little is known on salivary microbiome profiles in stable decompensated patients.

Methods: We studied patients with stable decompensated cirrhosis (n =28) and matched healthy controls (n =26).

Reply to "Comment on 'Rényi entropy yields artificial biases not in the data and incorrect updating due to the finite-size data' ".

We reply to the preceding Comment by Jizba and Korbel [Jizba and Korbel, Phys. Rev. E 100, 026101 (2019)10.

Galectin-3 is associated with glomerular filtration rate and outcome in patients with stable decompensated cirrhosis.

Background: Newly introduced galectin-3 (gal-3) has been associated to impaired renal function. Gal-3 may become prognostic biomarker in hepatic diseases.

Aim: To investigate the association of gal-3 with prognosis and renal function in patients with stable decompensated cirrhosis.

ALBI and PALBI Grades Are Associated with the Outcome of Patients with Stable Decompensated Cirrhosis.

Introduction And Aim: Studies carried out mainly in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), have shown the prognostic significance of albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) grade. Recently, another predictive score incorporating platelet count into ALBI, PALBI grade, was introduced in patients with HCC.

Aim: We evaluated the ability of ALBI and PALBI grades in predicting the outcome (mortality / liver transplantation) of patients with stable decompensated cirrhosis with various etiology of liver diseases.

Rényi entropy yields artificial biases not in the data and incorrect updating due to the finite-size data.

We show that the Rényi entropy implies artificial biases not warranted by the data and incorrect updating information due to the finite size of the data despite being additive. It is demonstrated that this is so because it does not conform to the system and subset independence axioms of Shore and Johnson [J. IEEE Trans.

In-Season Integrative Neuromuscular Strength Training Improves Performance of Early-Adolescent Soccer Athletes.

Panagoulis, C, Chatzinikolaou, A, Avloniti, A, Leontsini, D, Deli, CK, Draganidis, D, Stampoulis, T, Oikonomou, T, Papanikolaou, K, Rafailakis, L, Kambas, A, Jamurtas, AZ, and Fatouros, IG. In-season integrative neuromuscular strength training improves performance of early-adolescent soccer athletes. J Strength Cond Res 34(2): 516-526, 2020-Although forms of integrative neuromuscular training (INT) are used extensively for injury prevention and treatment, no information exists about its effects on performance of adolescent athletes.

Clinical impact of microbiome in patients with decompensated cirrhosis.

Cirrhosis is an increasing cause of morbidity and mortality. Recent studies are trying to clarify the role of microbiome in clinical exacerbation of patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Nowadays, it is accepted that patients with cirrhosis have altered salivary and enteric microbiome, characterized by the presence of dysbiosis.

Reply to "Comment on 'Route from discreteness to the continuum for the Tsallis q-entropy' ".

It has been known for some time that the usual q-entropy S_{q}^{(n)} cannot be shown to converge to the continuous case. In Phys. Rev.

Route from discreteness to the continuum for the Tsallis q-entropy.

The existence and exact form of the continuum expression of the discrete nonlogarithmic q-entropy is an important open problem in generalized thermostatistics, since its possible lack implies that nonlogarithmic q-entropy is irrelevant for the continuous classical systems. In this work, we show how the discrete nonlogarithmic q-entropy in fact converges in the continuous limit and the negative of the q-entropy with continuous variables is demonstrated to lead to the (Csiszár type) q-relative entropy just as the relation between the continuous Boltzmann-Gibbs expression and the Kullback-Leibler relative entropy. As a result, we conclude that there is no obstacle for the applicability of the q-entropy to the continuous classical physical systems.

Comment on "Troublesome aspects of the Renyi-MaxEnt treatment".

Plastino et al. [Plastino et al., Phys.

Type 1 autoimmune hepatitis presenting with severe autoimmune neutropenia.

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a progressive, chronic liver disease characterized by unresolving hepatocellular inflammation of autoimmune origin. The clinical spectrum may vary from asymptomatic presentation, to non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, arthralgias, nausea and abdominal pain, to acute severe liver disease. AIH is characterized by the presence of interface hepatitis and portal plasma cell infiltration on histological examination, hypergammaglobulinemia, and positive autoantibodies.

Relative Adrenal Insufficiency is Associated with the Clinical Outcome in Patients with Stable Decompensated Cirrhosis.

Background: The clinical impact of relative adrenal insufficiency (AI) on patients with stable decompensated cirrhosis (DeCi) has not been yet elucidated.

Aim: Explore the association between AI and outcome [death or liver transplantation (LT)] in patients with DeCi.

Material And Methods: Patients with DeCi presenting no active complication have been included.

Hepatopulmonary syndrome is associated with the presence of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with decompensated cirrhosis.

Background: Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a relatively common complication in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Our aim was to evaluate the prevalence of HPS, its clinical impact, and the possible association between HPS and characteristics of patients with decompensated cirrhosis.

Methods: Patients with stable decompensated cirrhosis admitted to our department and assessed for HPS were included.

High serum ferritin is associated with worse outcome of patients with decompensated cirrhosis.

Background: Studies in patients with decompensated cirrhosis showed a correlation between serum ferritin levels and patients' prognosis. Besides, red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and mean platelet volume (MPV) have been associated with the severity of hepatic function. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic impact of serum ferritin and RDW/MPV in the outcome [survival, death, or liver transplantation (LT)] of patients with stable decompensated cirrhosis.

Validity of the third law of thermodynamics for the Tsallis entropy.

Bento et al. [Phys. Rev.

Comment on "Third law of thermodynamics as a key test of generalized entropies".

Bento et al. [Phys. Rev.