Hepatic venous pressure gradient in patients with (compensated and decompensated) advanced chronic liver disease – A comparison of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease with alcohol-associated liver disease: A retrospective view

In our cirrhosis registry study of hospitalized patients with ACLD, baseline HVPG measured for accepted indications differed according to the etiology of dACLD: patients with ALD had the highest values followed by MASLD and Other etiologies. Importantly, when looked at from the point of view of complications, the treshold for clinically significant portal hypertension remained fixed at the level recommended by BAVENO Consensus - 10 mm Hg irrespective of etiology.