Enteral Nutrition for Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis

In the ongoing search for therapies that improve long-term survival in patients with acute alcoholic hepatitis, aggressive nutritional supplement has shown some promise. In the current multicenter study, researchers randomized 136 patients hospitalized with biopsy-proven alcoholic hepatitis to receive intensive enteral nutrition via feeding tube or conventional nutrition (according to local practice) for 14 days. Participants had new …