“…Prospective, randomized studies investigating (PEG-)IFN-free treatment which enrolled a significant number of patients with decompensated cirrhosis (Child-Pugh (CP) score > 8; MELD score > 16) are scarce, and safety as well as efficacy data are only available in individual cases for patients with a MELD score > 22 (table 2) [38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45]. In the ALLY-1 study, which enrolled patients with advanced cirrhosis and patients after liver transplantation, sustained virologic response (SVR) was achieved in 11/12 (92%), 30/32 (94%), and 9/16 (56%) patients with CP class A, B, and C cirrhosis, respectively [42].…”