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Recently, alterations in adipose tissue have also been described in cirrhotic patients and they seem to influence the course of liver disease. Several pieces of evidence indicate that a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS), placed for the treatment of refractory portal hypertension, can lead to a modification of body composition consisting in the improvement of the skeletal muscle index, myosteatosis, and an increase in subcutaneous fat. These modifications of the nutritional status, even more pronounced in sarcopenic patients before TIPS, have been associated with an amelioration of cognitive impairment after TIPS as well as with an increase in the survival rate. 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