(en) To the Editor: We read the article by Lackner and collaborators [1] with great interest. The main goal of this study was to assess factors associated with long-term prognosis in patients with biopsy-proven alcoholic liver disease (ALD). Although this study is of major clinical relevance, we believe it deserves several comments. [...]
Deltenre, P., Marot, A., Knebel, J.-F., Doerig, C., Henrion, J., & Moreno, C. (2017). Effect of abstinence on the prognosis of patients with alcoholic liver disease: A word of caution. Journal of Hepatology, 66(6), 1329-1330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2017.02.029 (Original work published 2017)