End‐stage liver disease: Management of hepatorenal syndrome

Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is a serious complication of cirrhosis with high morbidity and mortality rates. Recently, the definition of HRS type 1 has been updated and is now called HRS‐AKI. This new definition reduces the risk of delaying HRS treatment and eliminates the need to establish a minimum creatinine cut‐off for the diagnosis of HRS‐AKI. From a pathophysiological point of view, newly identified mechanisms involved in the development of...