Conclusion There seems to be a consensus that the greater the liver stiffness, the greater the risk of mortality (“Stone liver, heart in danger”, according to Pernot and Villemain) However, innumerous studies are necessary to determine which therapeutic interventions would be capable of decreasing that stiffness and whether such decrease would have a consistent impact on prognosis. Another relevant data is that we do not know exactly the amount of information that HE can add to clinical practice, in addition […]