Hepatorenal syndrome: new insights about treatment (part III)

Abstract

Hepatorenal syndrome is a common and serious complication in cirrhotic patients, leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Although pharmacological treatments have shown mortality benefit, the ideal hepatorenal syndrome treatment option is liver transplantation with or without simultaneous kidney transplantation. Further research is required to optimize pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic approaches to treatment. An analysis of literature reviews, clinical studies, experimental research, clinical recommendations from PubMed / Medline and ELIBRARY databases was carried out for 7 keywords according to the review topic.