Prevalence and outcome of cirrhosis patients admitted to UK intensive care: A comparison against dialysis-dependent chronic renal failure patients: Response to Berry and Thomson

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I thank Drs. Berry and Thompson for their comments and accept that the tone of the discussion in our article [1] was indeed negative. However, I feel that this was an accurate reflec- ' tion of the data presented. I do share their concerns that the paper might be regarded as championing "therapeutic nihilism" in cirrhosis patients, in particular those with sepsis. This was not my intention. Rather, I feel that the onset of multi-organ failure (MOF) is such a catastrophic event in these patients that we should focus on the early phase of the illness, as indeed Drs.