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Clinical Trial: The Effects of Emulsifiers in the Food Supply on Disease Activity in Crohn's Disease: An Exploratory Double‐Blinded Randomised Feeding Trial
IF 7.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70041
Jessica A. Fitzpatrick, Peter R. Gibson, Kirstin M. Taylor, Ellen J. Anderson, Antony B. Friedman, Zaid S. Ardalan, Rebecca L. Smith, Emma P. Halmos
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Air Pollution Associated With Mortality Among Chronic Hepatitis B Patients Treated With Nucleotide/Nucleoside Analogues.
IF 6.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70019
Tyng-Yuan Jang, Yu-Ting Zeng, Po-Cheng Liang, Chih-Da Wu, Yu-Ju Wei, Pei-Chien Tsai, Ming-Yen Hsieh, Yi-Hung Lin, Meng-Hsuan Hsieh, Chih-Wen Wang, Jeng-Fu Yang, Ming-Lun Yeh, Chung-Feng Huang, Wan-Long Chuang, Jee-Fu Huang, Ya-Yun Cheng, Chia-Yen Dai, Pau-Chung Chen, Ming-Lung Yu
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Comparison Between Dynamic Models for Predicting Response to Corticosteroids in Alcohol‐Associated Hepatitis: A Global Cohort Study
IF 7.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70024
Francisco Idalsoaga, Luis Antonio Díaz, Leonardo Guizzetti, Winston Dunn, Heer Mehta, Jorge Arnold, Gustavo Ayares, Rokhsana Mortuza, Gurpreet Mahli, Alvi H. Islam, Shiv K. Sarin, Rakhi Maiwall, Wei Zhang, Steve Qian, Douglas Simonetto, Ashwani K. Singal, Mohamed A. Elfeki, Carolina Ramirez‐Cadiz, Joaquín Cabezas, Victor Echavarría, Meritxell Ventura Cots, María Fátima Higuera‐De La Tijera, Juan G. Abraldes, Mustafa Al‐Karaghouli, Prasun K. Jalal, Mohamad Ali Ibrahim, Guadalupe García‐Tsao, Daniela Goyes, Lubomir Skladaný, Daniel J. Havaj, Karolina Sulejova, Svetlana Adamcova Selcanova, Diego Rincón, Vijay H. Shah, Patrick S. Kamath, Marco Arrese, Ramon Bataller, Juan Pablo Arab
{"title":"Comparison Between Dynamic Models for Predicting Response to Corticosteroids in Alcohol‐Associated Hepatitis: A Global Cohort Study","authors":"Francisco Idalsoaga, Luis Antonio Díaz, Leonardo Guizzetti, Winston Dunn, Heer Mehta, Jorge Arnold, Gustavo Ayares, Rokhsana Mortuza, Gurpreet Mahli, Alvi H. Islam, Shiv K. Sarin, Rakhi Maiwall, Wei Zhang, Steve Qian, Douglas Simonetto, Ashwani K. Singal, Mohamed A. Elfeki, Carolina Ramirez‐Cadiz, Joaquín Cabezas, Victor Echavarría, Meritxell Ventura Cots, María Fátima Higuera‐De La Tijera, Juan G. Abraldes, Mustafa Al‐Karaghouli, Prasun K. Jalal, Mohamad Ali Ibrahim, Guadalupe García‐Tsao, Daniela Goyes, Lubomir Skladaný, Daniel J. Havaj, Karolina Sulejova, Svetlana Adamcova Selcanova, Diego Rincón, Vijay H. Shah, Patrick S. Kamath, Marco Arrese, Ramon Bataller, Juan Pablo Arab","doi":"10.1111/apt.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.70024","url":null,"abstract":"Several dynamic models predict mortality and corticosteroid response in alcohol‐associated hepatitis (AH), yet no consensus exists on the most effective model. This study aimed to assess predictive models for corticosteroid response and short‐term mortality in severe AH within a global cohort. We conducted a multi‐national study of patients with severe AH treated with corticosteroids for at least 7 days, enrolled between 2009 and 2019. Dynamic models—Lille‐4, Lille‐7, trajectory of serum bilirubin (TSB), and neutrophil‐to‐lymphocyte ratio (NLR)—were used to estimate 30‐ and 90‐day mortality. Lille‐7 demonstrated the highest accuracy for both 30‐ and 90‐day mortality.","PeriodicalId":121,"journal":{"name":"Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143443353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Editorial: Hyperferritinaemia—An Ironclad Biomarker for the Prognostication of MASLD? Authors' Reply
IF 7.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70036
Byeong Geun Song, Dong Hyun Sinn
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Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Impacts Long‐Term Outcomes After Curative‐Intent Surgery for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
IF 7.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70002
Deniz Uluk, Justus Pein, Sophia Herda, Frederik Schliephake, Carolin V. Schneider, Jude Bitar, Katharina Dreher, Dennis Eurich, Ingrid W. Zhang, Lukas Schaffrath, Timo A. Auer, Federico Collettini, Cornelius Engelmann, Frank Tacke, Johann Pratschke, Isabella Lurje, Georg Lurje
{"title":"Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) Impacts Long‐Term Outcomes After Curative‐Intent Surgery for Hepatocellular Carcinoma","authors":"Deniz Uluk, Justus Pein, Sophia Herda, Frederik Schliephake, Carolin V. Schneider, Jude Bitar, Katharina Dreher, Dennis Eurich, Ingrid W. Zhang, Lukas Schaffrath, Timo A. Auer, Federico Collettini, Cornelius Engelmann, Frank Tacke, Johann Pratschke, Isabella Lurje, Georg Lurje","doi":"10.1111/apt.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.70002","url":null,"abstract":"BackgroundCurative surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) includes liver resection (LR) and orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Due to the obesity epidemic, metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a frequent HCC aetiology that often coincides with increased alcohol consumption, termed MetALD, or even alcohol‐associated liver disease (ALD).MethodsPatients undergoing LR or OLT for HCC at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin (2010–2020) were included in this retrospective cohort study investigating disease aetiology, time to recurrence (TTR), overall survival (OS) and CT‐based body composition.ResultsOut of 579 patients with HCC, 417 underwent LR and 162 OLT. Tumour aetiologies were viral <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 191 (33.0%), MASLD <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 158 (27.3%), MetALD <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 51 (8.8%), ALD <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 68 (11.7%) and other/cryptogenic <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 111 (19.2%). Patients with MASLD and MetALD had more intramuscular (<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> &lt; 0.001, <jats:italic>p =</jats:italic> 0.015) and visceral fat (both <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> &lt; 0.001) than patients with non‐metabolic dysfunction aetiologies. Patients with MASLD‐HCC had comparable TTR (median 26 months, [95% CI: 23–31] vs. 30 months [95% CI: 4–57], <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 0.425) but shorter OS than patients with other HCC aetiologies (63 months [95% CI: 42–84] vs. 80 months [95% CI: 60–100], hazard ratio: 1.53 [95% CI: 1.050–2.229], <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 0.026) after LR. Multivariate analysis confirmed MASLD aetiology, portal vein thrombosis and MELD score ≥ 10 as independent prognostic factors for OS in LR (adjusted <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 0.021,<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> &lt; 0.001,<jats:italic>p =</jats:italic> 0.003), even after excluding in‐hospital mortality (adjusted <jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 0.016,<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 0.002,<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 0.002). Causes of death were similar in MASLD and non‐MASLD aetiology.ConclusionsPatients with HCC undergoing LR and meeting the new MASLD criteria have significantly shorter OS. This study provides empirical prognostic evidence for the novel MASLD/MetALD classification in a large European cohort of patients undergoing curative‐intent HCC therapy.","PeriodicalId":121,"journal":{"name":"Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143434918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Editorial: Hyperferritinaemia—An Ironclad Biomarker for the Prognostication of MASLD?
IF 7.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70034
Mark C. C. Cheah, Chee‐Kiat Tan
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Letter: Lubiprostone—A Novel Therapeutic Avenue for Gastrointestinal Complications in MASLD
IF 7.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70035
Hassan Javed, Muhammad Umar Ahsan, Muhammad Saeed, Muhammad Qintar Taqi
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Letter: Lubiprostone—A Novel Therapeutic Avenue for Gastrointestinal Complications in MASLD. Authors' Reply
IF 7.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70048
Mohamed El‐Kassas, Hongqun Liu, Samuel S. Lee
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Editorial: Variceal Bleeding in Patients Receiving Atezolizumab–Bevacizumab for Hepatocellular Carcinoma—Don't Ignore the Risk Factors! Authors' Reply
IF 7.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70040
Jonggi Choi
{"title":"Editorial: Variceal Bleeding in Patients Receiving Atezolizumab–Bevacizumab for Hepatocellular Carcinoma—Don't Ignore the Risk Factors! Authors' Reply","authors":"Jonggi Choi","doi":"10.1111/apt.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.70040","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;We appreciate the interest of Salimi and Liu in our study on variceal bleeding (VB) risk in patients receiving atezolizumab–bevacizumab (Atezo–Bev) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and their insightful comments highlighting the importance of risk stratification [&lt;span&gt;1, 2&lt;/span&gt;]. We fully concur that VB risk factors should not be overlooked and that a patient-specific risk approach is crucial in clinical decision-making.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;One key finding from our study that we would like to emphasise is that 14 of 45 patients (31%) who experienced VB had no varices observed on pretreatment oesophagogastroduodenoscopy (OGD) [&lt;span&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;]. Of note, 12 of these patients (85.7%) had portal vein invasion (PVI), with seven cases (50%) involving extensive main PVI. Our multivariable analysis also identified PVI as a strong predictor of VB risk. This finding suggests that even patients classified as low risk based on standard OGD criteria may still face a substantial risk of VB due to tumour-related factors, particularly PVI. Therefore, the traditional stratification approach based solely on OGD findings may be inadequate in this population, necessitating a more comprehensive assessment incorporating tumour burden and vascular involvement.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;Another important point is the observed higher incidence of VB (22% vs. 3%) in patients who received prophylaxis compared to those who did not. As noted by Salimi and Liu, this should be interpreted with caution. Rather than suggesting a lack of efficacy of prophylaxis, this likely reflects a selection bias, where patients receiving prophylaxis were inherently at higher risk of VB at baseline. As we discussed in our paper, patients who received prophylaxis had more significant VB risk factors, including a history of gastrointestinal bleeding, extensive PVI and advanced liver cirrhosis. Thus, the difference in VB incidence does not necessarily indicate prophylaxis failure but rather highlights the need for improved risk stratification and timely intervention in the highest risk patients.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;In addition, we initially sought to develop a patient-specific VB risk prediction model based on our findings. However, due to the relatively limited number of VB events and the lack of external validation, constructing a statistically robust model proved challenging. We believe that future efforts incorporating a larger sample size and multicentre cohorts will be essential in establishing this model. A validated risk stratification model could significantly enhance clinical decision-making, allowing for more precise VB risk prediction and personalised prophylaxis strategies in patients undergoing Atezo–Bev treatment.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;Given the lack of strong consensus guidelines for VB prevention during the Atezo–Bev treatment [&lt;span&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;], we hope our study contributes to the development of evidence-based risk prediction and prophylaxis strategies. Based on our findings, patients with risk factors such as low platelet count, PV","PeriodicalId":121,"journal":{"name":"Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics","volume":"208 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143427338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Letter on ‘Head-to-Head Comparison Between Phosphatidylethanol Versus Indirect Alcohol Biomarkers for Diagnosis of MetALD Versus MASLD: A Prospective Study’
IF 6.6 1区 医学
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1111/apt.70008
Muhammad Abubakr, Zuhair Abrar, Muhammad Jawad Haider, Saad Aslam Barqaat
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