Jean Pappas Molleston

An international multicenter analysis of the outcome of pediatric first variceal hemorrhage

Background & Aims: Management of portal hypertension in children including primary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding is controversial due to limited understanding of mortality risk after first variceal hemorrhage (1VH). This international multicenter study was designed to advance...

Alcohol use trajectories and liver enzyme changes in adolescents with MASLD: A longitudinal multicenter cohort.

OBJECTIVES: To characterize longitudinal patterns of alcohol use and evaluate associations with liver enzyme changes in youth with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). METHODS: We analyzed 1172 children with biopsy-confirmed MASLD and longitudinal Alc...

Response to Vibration‐controlled transient elastography in pediatric metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease: Considerations for risk stratification and clinical use

The authors declare no conflict of interest. Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.