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Abstract
Introduction: Complications from metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) include liver-related and extrahepatic complications, and the all-cause mortality rate is significantly higher in patients with MASLD than in those without MASLD.
Areas covered: We review the complications of MASLD and their management based on the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) guidelines as well as medical papers. For the papers, we focused on studies referenced in the EASL and AASLD guidelines. Additionally, a search was conducted in PubMed to gather relevant literature.
Expert opinion: Identifying and managing MASLD early, before it progresses to cirrhosis, is crucial to reducing mortality rates, and collaboration among healthcare professionals, including dietitians, nurses, and physical therapists, is vital for comprehensive management. There is active development of new drugs for MASLD, and we hope that new treatments will be developed soon.
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The enormous health and economic burden of gastrointestinal disease worldwide warrants a sharp focus on the etiology, epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and development of new therapies. By the end of the last century we had seen enormous advances, both in technologies to visualize disease and in curative therapies in areas such as gastric ulcer, with the advent first of the H2-antagonists and then the proton pump inhibitors - clear examples of how advances in medicine can massively benefit the patient. Nevertheless, specialists face ongoing challenges from a wide array of diseases of diverse etiology.