Journal of digestive diseases
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This research sought to verify whether acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) develops in hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related cirrhotic patients with previous decompensation and to identify the similarity between assumed ACLF patients and those with ACLF that developed from compensated cirrhosis. ⋯ HBV-related cirrhotic patients with previous decompensation who met the ACLF criteria had similar characteristic to ACLF patients with first AD.