Prediction of Decompensation and HCC Development in Advanced Chronic Liver Disease

Patients will be followed every 6 months. They will undergo at each visit an ultrasound examination including liver stiffness and a routine blood test, including AFP. Other examinations are carried out according to the standard of medical care. Blood, urine and stool tests as well as instrumental diagnostics such as duplex ultrasound, computer tomography, MR-tomography, endoscopies, bone marrow punctures, elastographies, TIPS implantations, operations, etc. will be performed as part of the usual diagnostic clarification.

"Based on PLEASE and M10LS20 scores, patients will be followed every 3 or 12 months. Low-risk patients will be followed once per year, and high-risk patients every 3 months.~They will undergo at each visit an ultrasound examination including liver stiffness and a routine blood test, including AFP. Other examinations are carried out according to the standard of medical care. Blood, urine and stool tests as well as instrumental diagnostics such as duplex ultrasound, computer tomography, MR-tomography, endoscopies, bone marrow punctures, elastographies, TIPS implantations, operations, etc. will be performed as part of the usual diagnostic clarification."