Advances in the Management of Ascites and Hepatorenal Syndrome by Mauro Bernardi, MD

Mauro Bernardi has been a full professor of Internal Medicine at Bologna University and director of Semeiotica Medica, a unit of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital S. Orsola in Bologna until October 31, 2017, when he retired. He is now Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine at Bologna
University.
His past academic duties at Bologna University include the directions of the Postgraduate School in Internal Medicine, the Institute of Patologia Speciale Medica, and the Department of Internal Medicine, Cardioangiology, Hepatology. He has been chairman of the Teaching Commission of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and the University Research Observatory. At present, he is the chairman of the Bioethics Committee. Professor Bernardi has been a member of the Scientific Committees of the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver and the European Association for the Study of the Liver. He has been treasurer of the European Association for the Study of the Liver and vice-chairman of the European Consortium for the study of Chronic Liver Failure.
His main research field is represented by Hepatology, with particular interests in cirrhosis, portal hypertension and related complications, hepatocellular carcinoma, chronic viral hepatitis, and liver
transplantation. He has co-authored more than 450 full papers and letters-to-the-editor published in peer-reviewed journals quoted by JCR with a total impact factor of about 5,600 and H-index 81 (Scopus).
The current talk was delivered on March 05, 2022, at the INEDSYS Hepatology Club meeting.