Lyell McEwin Hospital

A call for action with the burden of cirrhosis in Australia

Unlike most other chronic diseases and cancers in Australia, outcomes for cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer are not improving. Public hospitals are overwhelmed by decompensated cirrhosis and struggling to provide best practice care for the large population of patients with less...

Sarcopenia and Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction in Liver Cirrhosis: Clinical Perspectives of Myostatin Inhibition

Liver cirrhosis is frequently complicated by sarcopenia, a progressive and systemic loss of skeletal muscle mass and function that contributes substantially to increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare utilisation. The pathogenesis of sarcopenia in cirrhosis is multifactoria...