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Inpatients normally use analgesics for pain, with comparable rates between those with and without cirrhosis, according to a recent study. Patients with cirrhosis, especially decompensated ones, are less likely to use acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and more likely to use opioid analgesics.

Intravenous (IV) sodium acetate is as efficacious and safe as IV sodium bicarbonate for urine alkalinization with high-dose methotrexate (MTX) and may be used as a substitute in case of shortage, suggests a retrospective study.

Trough levels of infliximab are not predictive of the risk of short-term infectious (IC) or noninfectious complications (NIC) in adult patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), reports a study.

Treatment with corticosteroid in patients with drug-induced liver injury (DILI) does not appear to contribute to increased risk of death but rather helps normalize liver enzymes, as shown in a study.

Viral prophylaxis with valacyclovir 1 g three times daily following allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) results in a lower incidence of clinically significant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection as compared with acyclovir, according to a study.

In patients with nonmetastatic anal squamous cell carcinoma, time from diagnosis to treatment initiation longer than 2 months appears to result in poorer survival outcomes, a study has found.