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We thank Parker et al1 for their interest in our study. The authors point out that subjects in our study had a high mortality in the control group as well as a higher survival in the experimental group1 than the reported literature.2 The systematic review by Parker et al provided details on mortality in alcoholic hepatitis. However, it did not present the median Maddrey's discriminant function scores in the included studies.2 For instance, in one study, pentoxifylline therapy was associated with short term mortality rate of 25% in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis.

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