Portosystemic shunt placement reveals blood signatures for the development of hepatic encephalopathy through mass spectrometry

Abstract Elective transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement can worsen cognitive dysfunction in hepatic encephalopathy (HE) patients due to toxins, including possible microbial metabolites, entering the systemic circulation. We conducted untargeted metabolomics on a prospective...

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Main Authors: Ana Carolina Dantas Machado, Stephany Flores Ramos, Julia M. Gauglitz, Anne-Marie Fassler, Daniel Petras, Alexander A. Aksenov, Un Bi Kim, Michael Lazarowicz, Abbey Barnard Giustini, Hamed Aryafar, Irine Vodkin, Curtis Warren, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Ali Zarrinpar, Amir Zarrinpar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40741-9