ALB and hepatorenal syndrome: Prevention of precipitating factors determining acute liver decompensation refers to all possible precipitating factors; thus, antibiotic treatment is initiated for any suspicion of an infectious process, as well as sustained therapy of chronic viral hepatitis (B or C) [84,85,86] and administration of albumin in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis to inhibit accelerated kidney damage characteristic of hepatorenal syndrome [87,88].