TY - JOUR T1 - Authors’ response JF - Gut JO - Gut SP - 1181 LP - 1182 VL - 57 IS - 8 AU - S Møller AU - J H Henriksen Y1 - 2008/08/01 UR - http://gut.bmj.com/content/57/8/1181.2.abstract N2 - We would like to thank Thalheimer and Burroughs for their interest in our review on cardiovascular complications in cirrhosis. We agree that bacterial infections and the systemic inflammatory response in cirrhosis have variably been a topic of interest throughout the last decades. A considerable number of studies have dealt with the impact of, in particular, Gram-negative bacteria and endotoxins on the development of systemic circulatory, renal and portosystemic complications.1 2 However, the successes in identifying and correlating the infectious and inflammatory agents with the relevant organ dysfunction have been somewhat unpredictable.3–5 In two conditions, however, a direct relationship between bacterial infection and increased mortality have been proved, namely infections in relation … ER -