Hepatitis C eradication improves cognitive function in patients with or without cirrhosis: A prospective real-life study.

Background And Purpose: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with neuropsychiatric disturbances that impact on functioning and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Reversibility at different liver disease stages is unknown, particularly in cirrhosis. We aimed to evaluate cognition, functioning, and HRQoL following HCV eradication at different liver disease stages.

Usefulness of fully covered self-expandable biliary metal stents for the treatment of post-sphyncterotomy ERCP bleeding.

Background: post-sphyncterotomy endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) bleeding is an adverse event with an estimated incidence rate of 1.34%. There is no established consensus about how to treat this particular type of gastrointestinal bleed.