Defining the prognosis of critically ill patients with alcohol-related liver disease

We read with great interest the results of the PREDICT study, which identified that the most common precipitants (>96% of cases) of acute decompensation (AD) were bacterial infection (BI) and alcoholic hepatitis (AH), either alone or in combination with other precipitating events (PEs).[1]Trebicka J. Fernandez J. Papp M. Caraceni P. Laleman W. Gambino C. et al.PREDICT identifies precipitating events associated with the clinical course of acutely...