Losartan

With the new info suggesting that Losartan may help with liver  fibrosis, do you think that it is appropriate to prescribe this for a patient with portal hypertension?

Thank you

[Thomas D Schiano, MD]

there is definitely some suggestion that this family of medications may be helpful.  they can be somewhat problematic to use and would need to be used for years before potentially seeing an affect.  definitely not standard of care yet in my eyes.