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Assessment of the Frequency, Phenotypes, and Outcomes of Acute Liver Injury Associated with Amoxicillin/Clavulanate in 1.4 Million Patients in the Veterans Health Administration (2022)
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Suzuki, A., Tillmann, H., Williams, J., Hauser, R. G., Frund, J., Suzuki, M., …Hunt, C. M. (2023). Assessment of the Frequency, Phenotypes, and Outcomes of Acute Liver Injury Associated with Amoxicillin/Clavulanate in 1.4 Million Patients in the Veterans Health Administration. Drug Safety, 46(2), 129-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-022-01255-3

Introduction Drug-induced liver injury is a significant health issue, yet the exposure-based incidence remains to be characterized. Objective We aimed to assess the frequency, phenotypes, and outcomes of acute liver injury associated with amoxi... Read More about Assessment of the Frequency, Phenotypes, and Outcomes of Acute Liver Injury Associated with Amoxicillin/Clavulanate in 1.4 Million Patients in the Veterans Health Administration.

Comparing magnetic resonance liver fat fraction measurements with histology in fibrosis: the difference between proton density fat fraction and tissue mass fat fraction (2022)
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Bawden, S. J., Hoad, C., Kaye, P., Stephenson, M., Dolman, G., James, M. W., …Aithal, G. P. (2023). Comparing magnetic resonance liver fat fraction measurements with histology in fibrosis: the difference between proton density fat fraction and tissue mass fat fraction. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 36(4), 553-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-022-01052-0

Objective: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) provides a powerful method of measuring fat fraction. However, previous studies have shown that MRS results give lower values compared with visual estimates from biopsies in fibrotic livers. This study... Read More about Comparing magnetic resonance liver fat fraction measurements with histology in fibrosis: the difference between proton density fat fraction and tissue mass fat fraction.

Identification of Reduced ERAP2 Expression and a Novel HLA Allele as Components of a Risk Score for Susceptibility to Liver Injury Due to Amoxicillin-Clavulanate (2022)
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Nicoletti, P., Dellinger, A., Li, Y. J., Barnhart, H. X., Chalasani, N., Fontana, R. J., …Watkins, P. B. (2023). Identification of Reduced ERAP2 Expression and a Novel HLA Allele as Components of a Risk Score for Susceptibility to Liver Injury Due to Amoxicillin-Clavulanate. Gastroenterology, 164(3), 454-466. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2022.11.036

Background & Aims: Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) due to amoxicillin–clavulanate (AC) has been associated with HLA-A∗02:01, HLA-DRB1∗15:01, and rs2476601, a missense variant in PTPN22. The aim of this study was to identify novel risk factors for AC... Read More about Identification of Reduced ERAP2 Expression and a Novel HLA Allele as Components of a Risk Score for Susceptibility to Liver Injury Due to Amoxicillin-Clavulanate.

Diagnostic accuracy of serum ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) in a contemporary unselected medical cohort (2022)
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Subhani, M., Sheth, A., Palaniyappan, N., Sugathan, P., Wilkes, E. A., & Aithal, G. P. (2022). Diagnostic accuracy of serum ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) in a contemporary unselected medical cohort. Journal of International Medical Research, 50(11), Article 030006052211403. https://doi.org/10.1177/03000605221140310

Abstract Objectives To describe the different aetiologies of ascites and test the validity of serum ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) and cytology in a contemporary unselected medical cohort. Methods All adult patients admitted to Nottingham Univer... Read More about Diagnostic accuracy of serum ascites albumin gradient (SAAG) in a contemporary unselected medical cohort.

Physical activity is inversely associated with hepatic fibro-inflammation: A population-based cohort study using UK Biobank data (2022)
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Sherry, A. P., Willis, S. A., Yates, T., Johnson, W., Razieh, C., Sargeant, J. A., …King, J. A. (2023). Physical activity is inversely associated with hepatic fibro-inflammation: A population-based cohort study using UK Biobank data. JHEP Reports, 5(1), Article 100622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhepr.2022.100622

Background & Aims Physical activity (PA) is recommended in the management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) given its beneficial effects on liver fat and cardiometabolic risk. Using data from the UK Biobank population-cohort, this study e... Read More about Physical activity is inversely associated with hepatic fibro-inflammation: A population-based cohort study using UK Biobank data.

Low Accuracy of FIB-4 and NAFLD Fibrosis Scores for Screening for Liver Fibrosis in the Population (2022)
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Graupera, I., Thiele, M., Serra-Burriel, M., Caballeria, L., Roulot, D., Wong, G. L., …Krag, A. (2022). Low Accuracy of FIB-4 and NAFLD Fibrosis Scores for Screening for Liver Fibrosis in the Population. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 20(11), 2567-2576.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2021.12.034

Background & Aims Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) and the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease fibrosis score (NFS) are the 2 most popular noninvasive blood-based serum tests proposed for widespread fibrosis screening. We therefore aimed to describe the accuracy o... Read More about Low Accuracy of FIB-4 and NAFLD Fibrosis Scores for Screening for Liver Fibrosis in the Population.

Variability of noninvasive MRI and biological markers in compensated cirrhosis: insights for assessing disease progression (2022)
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Bradley, C. R., Cox, E. F., Palaniyappan, N., Aithal, G. P., Francis, S. T., & Guha, I. N. (2022). Variability of noninvasive MRI and biological markers in compensated cirrhosis: insights for assessing disease progression. European Radiology Experimental, 6(1), Article 52. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41747-022-00303-y

Abstract: Background: We annually monitored stable compensated cirrhosis (CC) patients to evaluate serial variation in blood serum, liver stiffness, and multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) measures to provide reference change values (R... Read More about Variability of noninvasive MRI and biological markers in compensated cirrhosis: insights for assessing disease progression.

Therapeutic Management of Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury and Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity in the Paediatric Population: A Systematic Review (2022)
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Niu, H., Atallah, E., Alvarez-Alvarez, I., Medina-Caliz, I., Aithal, G. P., Arikan, C., …Lucena, M. I. (2022). Therapeutic Management of Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury and Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity in the Paediatric Population: A Systematic Review. Drug Safety, 45, 1329-1348. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-022-01224-w

Introduction Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a rare but serious adverse event that can progress to acute liver failure (ALF). The evidence for treatment of DILI in children is scarce. Objective We aimed to comprehensively review the availabl... Read More about Therapeutic Management of Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury and Acetaminophen Hepatotoxicity in the Paediatric Population: A Systematic Review.

A new framework for advancing in drug-induced liver injury research. The Prospective European DILI Registry (2022)
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Björnsson, E. S., Stephens, C., Atallah, E., Alvarez-Alvarez, I., Robles-Diaz, M., Gerbes, A., …Aithal, G. P. (2022). A new framework for advancing in drug-induced liver injury research. The Prospective European DILI Registry. Liver International, 43(1), 115-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/liv.15378

Background & Aims: No multi-national prospective study of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) has originated in Europe. The design of a prospective European DILI registry, clinical features and short-term outcomes of the cases and controls is reported.... Read More about A new framework for advancing in drug-induced liver injury research. The Prospective European DILI Registry.

Development of Food Group Tree-Based Analysis and Its Association with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Co-Morbidities in a South Indian Population: A Large Case-Control Study (2022)
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Vijay, A., Al-Awadi, A., Chalmers, J., Balakumaran, L., Grove, J. I., Valdes, A. M., …Aithal, G. P. (2022). Development of Food Group Tree-Based Analysis and Its Association with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Co-Morbidities in a South Indian Population: A Large Case-Control Study. Nutrients, 14(14), Article 2808. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14142808

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a global problem growing in parallel to the epidemics of obesity and diabetes, with South Asians being particularly susceptible. Nutrition and behaviour are important modifiers of the disease,... Read More about Development of Food Group Tree-Based Analysis and Its Association with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Co-Morbidities in a South Indian Population: A Large Case-Control Study.

Prognostic non-invasive biomarkers for all-cause mortality in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
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Cianci, N., Subhani, M., Hill, T., Khanna, A., Zheng, D., Sheth, A., …Aithal, G. P. (2022). Prognostic non-invasive biomarkers for all-cause mortality in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. World Journal of Hepatology, 14(5), 1025-1037. https://doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v14.i5.1025

BACKGROUND Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) represents a growing public health concern, with patients having higher risk of morbidity and mortality. It has a considerably high prevalence in the general population, estimated 20%-40% in Europe... Read More about Prognostic non-invasive biomarkers for all-cause mortality in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Incidence and prevalence of venous thromboembolism in chronic liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
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Subhani, M., Sheth, A., Ahmed, J., Wijayasiri, P., Gardezi, S. A., Enki, D., …Aravinthan, A. D. (2022). Incidence and prevalence of venous thromboembolism in chronic liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Thrombosis Research, 215, 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.thromres.2022.05.004

Background and Aims: Historically, bleeding was thought to be a frequent and fatal complication of liver disease. However, thrombosis due to coagulation disorders in cirrhosis remains a real risk. We aim to systematically analyse published articles t... Read More about Incidence and prevalence of venous thromboembolism in chronic liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Incidence and pattern of mycophenolate discontinuation associated with abnormal monitoring blood-test results: cohort study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum (2022)
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Nakafero, G., Grainge, M. J., Card, T., Mallen, C. D., Riley, R., Van Der Windt, D., …Abhishek, A. (2022). Incidence and pattern of mycophenolate discontinuation associated with abnormal monitoring blood-test results: cohort study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 6(2), Article rkac046. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkac046

Objective: The aim was to examine the incidence and pattern of MMF discontinuation associated with abnormal monitoring blood-test results. Methods: Data from people prescribed MMF for common inflammatory conditions in the Clinical Practice Research D... Read More about Incidence and pattern of mycophenolate discontinuation associated with abnormal monitoring blood-test results: cohort study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum.

Characteristics of alcohol recovery narratives: Systematic review and narrative synthesis (2022)
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Subhani, M., Talat, U., Knight, H., Morling, J. R., Jones, K. A., Aithal, G. P., …Rennick-Egglestone, S. (2022). Characteristics of alcohol recovery narratives: Systematic review and narrative synthesis. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0268034. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268034

Background and aims Narratives of recovery from alcohol misuse have been analysed in a range of research studies. This paper aims to produce a conceptual framework describing the characteristics of alcohol misuse recovery narratives that are in the r... Read More about Characteristics of alcohol recovery narratives: Systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Corticosteroid plus glycyrrhizin therapy for chronic drug‐ or herb‐induced liver injury achieves biochemical and histological improvements: a randomised open‐label trial (2022)
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Wang, J. B., Huang, A., Wang, Y., Ji, D., Liang, Q. S., Zhao, J., …Zou, Z. (2022). Corticosteroid plus glycyrrhizin therapy for chronic drug‐ or herb‐induced liver injury achieves biochemical and histological improvements: a randomised open‐label trial. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 55(10), 1297-1310. https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16902

Background Treatment of chronic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) or herb-induced liver injury(HILI) is an important and unresolved challenge. There is no consensus regarding the indications for corticosteroids for chronic DILI/HILI. Aims To inve... Read More about Corticosteroid plus glycyrrhizin therapy for chronic drug‐ or herb‐induced liver injury achieves biochemical and histological improvements: a randomised open‐label trial.

A revised electronic version of RUCAM for the diagnosis of DILI (2022)
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Hayashi, P. H., Lucena, M. I., Fontana, R. J., Bjornsson, E. S., Aithal, G. P., Barnhart, H., …Hoofnagle, J. H. (2022). A revised electronic version of RUCAM for the diagnosis of DILI. Hepatology, 76(1), 18-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.32327

Background and Aims: Roussel Uclaf Causality Assessment Method (RUCAM) for DILI has been hindered by subjectivity and poor reliability. We sought to improve the RUCAM using data from the Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network (DILIN) and the Spanish DILI... Read More about A revised electronic version of RUCAM for the diagnosis of DILI.

HLA-DR polymorphism in SARS-CoV-2 infection and susceptibility to symptomatic COVID-19 (2022)
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Astbury, S., Reynolds, C. J., Butler, D. K., Munoz-Sandoval, D. C., Lin, K., Pieper, F. P., …Altmann, D. M. (2022). HLA-DR polymorphism in SARS-CoV-2 infection and susceptibility to symptomatic COVID-19. Immunology, 166(1), 68-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/imm.13450

SARS-CoV-2 infection results in different outcomes ranging from asymptomatic infection to mild or severe disease and death. Reasons for this diversity of outcome include differences in challenge dose, age, gender, comorbidity and host genomic variati... Read More about HLA-DR polymorphism in SARS-CoV-2 infection and susceptibility to symptomatic COVID-19.

Treatment and Outcome of Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH): Audit of 28 UK centres (2022)
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Gordon, V., Adhikary, R., Appleby, V., Das, D., Day, J., Delahooke, T., …Gleeson, D. (2022). Treatment and Outcome of Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH): Audit of 28 UK centres. Liver International, 42(7), 1571-1584. https://doi.org/10.1111/liv.15241

Background With few data regarding treatment and outcome of patients with AIH outside of large centres we present such a study of patients with AIH in 28 UK hospitals of varying size and facilities. Methods Patients with AIH were identified in 1... Read More about Treatment and Outcome of Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH): Audit of 28 UK centres.

Validation of the aMAP score to predict hepatocellular carcinoma development in a cohort of alcohol‐related cirrhosis patients (2022)
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Liu, K., Yip, T. C. F., Masson, S., Fateen, W., Schwantes‐An, T., McCaughan, G. W., …Seth, D. (2022). Validation of the aMAP score to predict hepatocellular carcinoma development in a cohort of alcohol‐related cirrhosis patients. Liver Cancer International, 3(2), 99-104. https://doi.org/10.1002/lci2.47

Background and Aims The aMAP score was recently devised to predict hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development. However, its performance was not tested in alcohol-related cirrhosis (ALC). We aimed to validate the aMAP score in a cohort of ALC patient... Read More about Validation of the aMAP score to predict hepatocellular carcinoma development in a cohort of alcohol‐related cirrhosis patients.

Monoclonal antibody BTT1023 targeting vascular adhesion protein 1 for treating primary sclerosing cholangitis: BUTEO single-arm Phase II trial (2022)
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Arndtz, K., Chen, Y., Rowe, A., Homer, V., Kirkham, A., Douglas-Pugh, J., …Hirschfield, G. (2022). Monoclonal antibody BTT1023 targeting vascular adhesion protein 1 for treating primary sclerosing cholangitis: BUTEO single-arm Phase II trial. Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, 9(1), 1-54. https://doi.org/10.3310/zpnf4670

Background: Primary sclerosing cholangitis is a progressive and fibrotic liver disease. Treatments remain inadequate, and patients with persistent elevations in activity of alkaline phosphatase are at greatest risk of disease progression. Studies in... Read More about Monoclonal antibody BTT1023 targeting vascular adhesion protein 1 for treating primary sclerosing cholangitis: BUTEO single-arm Phase II trial.