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Turco L, Schepis F, Villa E. The role of anticoagulation in treating portal hypertension. Curr Hepatol Rep. 2018;17:200–8. Tripodi A, Fracanzani AL, Chantarangkul V, Primignani M, Fargion S. Procoagulant imbalance in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. J Hepatol. 2017;66:248–50.

If you’re going to drink alcohol, experts recommend no more than one drink a day for women and two for men. A drink is 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or one shot of liquor. Tana C, Ballestri S, Ricci F, Di Vincenzo A, Ticinesi A, Gallina S, et al. Cardiovascular risk in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: mechanisms and therapeutic implications. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019;16(17):3104. Wang CL, Wu VC, Kuo CF, Chu PH, Tseng HJ, Wen MS, Chang SH. Efficacy and safety of non-vitamin k antagonist oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation patients with impaired liver function: a retrospective cohort study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018;7:e009263. It is important to give your doctor as much information as you can. This will help them to diagnose your condition correctly and give you the right care.

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Consistently, some studies provided evidence of a pro-coagulant state in NAFLD patients. An increased activity of some circulating coagulation factors (FVIII, FIX, FXI and FXII) has been found in patients of NAFLD, independently of age, gender and BMI [ 51, 52]. NAFLD has independently been associated with increased plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) in obese patients in a manner related to histological severity [ 53]. A procoagulant-imbalance has been observed across the spectrum of NAFLD histological severity progressing from simple steatosis to NASH-cirrhosis and resulting from increased FVIII (procoagulant) and reduced protein C (anticoagulant) [ 54]. The findings of one study which found that haemostasis (i.e., platelets, coagulation and fibrinolysis) was rebalanced in NAFLD may have been influenced by unusually higher than expected FVIII levels in lean controls [ 55, 56]. In conclusion the coagulopathy observed across the NAFLD spectrum is an intriguing and as yet incompletely defined area. Therefore, more research is needed in this field. Potential Role of Coagulation System on the Development of the Histogenesis of Cirrhosis and its Complications Published studies yielded inconsistent results regarding the incidence and prevalence of AF in patients with liver cirrhosis. In addition, temporal trends in risk profiles and clinical outcomes of hospitalized cirrhotic patients with concomitant AF are still unclear [ 25]. Patients with AF and concurrent liver cirrhosis have typically been excluded from RCTs of oral anticoagulant therapy, both VKAs and DOACs, for stroke prevention; therefore, AF guidelines are not able to provide specific recommendation on anticoagulation in patients with cirrhosis [ 4]. In a recent nationwide registry study, the use of warfarin was associated with a reduced risk of ischemic stroke and positive net clinical benefit compared to non-treatment in patients with AF and cirrhosis, suggesting that thrombo-prophylaxis should be considered for such patients [ 26]. Conversely, a much smaller study reported that the incidence of stroke was similar in AF cirrhotic patients with and without warfarin use, whereas the incidence of major bleeding events was significantly higher in the warfarin group [ 27]. A recent large retrospective population-based Italian cohort study has shown that AF patients with concomitant liver disease had an increased risk of any of the primary study outcomes (stroke, major bleeding and all-cause death) compared to those without it (median follow-up time of 3.8 years); moreover, oral anticoagulation (97% VKAs, 3% DOACs) in patients with liver disease was associated with a significant benefit/risk ratio compared to non-treatment [ 28].

Lonardo A, Nascimbeni F, Mantovani A, Targher G. Hypertension, diabetes, atherosclerosis and NASH: cause or consequence? J Hepatol. 2018;68:335–52. Targher G, Byrne CD. Diagnosis and management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and its hemostatic/thrombotic and vascular complications. Semin Thromb Hemost. 2013;39:214–28. Steffel J, Verhamme P, Potpara TS, Albaladejo P, Antz M, Desteghe L, et al. The 2018 European heart rhythm association practical guide on the use of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation. Eur Heart J. 2018;39:1330–933. Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have become the first-line drugs in the treatment of non-valvular AF (NVAF) and VTE with proven similar or better efficacy than vitamin-K antagonists (VKAs) such as warfarin and significantly reduced risk of major bleeding, mainly intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) [ 3, 4]. However, patients with liver disease and cirrhosis were excluded from pivotal randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of DOACs and evidences in this particular setting are limited [ 5]. Cardiologists, hepato-gastroenterologists and hematologists should collaborate to optimize anticoagulant treatment in patients with CLD: no evidence is available on which DOAC has the best efficacy and safety profile in such patients. In clinical practice the choice between different DOACs should consider their pharmacodynamic properties, patient characteristic, data from RCTs and prospective cohort studies on general population and from accumulating studies on liver disease patients.Loffredo L, Pastori D, Farcomeni A, Violi F. Effects of anticoagulants in patients with cirrhosis and portal vein thrombosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Gastroenterology. 2017;153:480–7. A recent study, using data from a large healthcare utilization database in the United States, has shown a lower rate of hospitalizations for DILI in patients on DOACs as compared to those on warfarin (5 vs. 9 per 1000 person-years) among a cohort of 113,717 patients with NVAF receiving a first-time oral anticoagulant prescription (50% warfarin and 50% DOACs). Among DOACs, dabigatran had the lowest relative risk of hospitalization owing to DILI [ 113]. History of hepato-biliary disease, alcoholism, kidney disease, heart failure, anemia and cancer are risk factors for hospitalization owing to DILI [ 113].

Rambaldi A, et al. (2007). Milk thistle for alcoholic and/orhepatitis B or C virus liver diseases. DOI: Sarin SK, Philips CA, Kamath PS, Choudhury A, Maruyama H, Nery FG, Valla DC. Toward a comprehensive new classification of portal vein thrombosis in patients with cirrhosis. Gastroenterology. 2016;151:574–7. Dandelion has also been considered a natural remedy for various conditions. More study is needed to prove that it works.A meta-analysis of 29 phase III RCTs has shown that all DOACs as a class, and also the individual drugs, do not increase the risk of DILI as compared to standard anticoagulation (VKA/LMWH) or placebo [ 110].