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1. Predictors of solid extra-hepatic non-skin cancer in liver transplant recipients and analysis of survival: A long-term follow-up study

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Gitto, Stefano, Magistri, Paolo, Marzi, Luca, Mannelli, Nicolò, De Maria, Nicola, Mega, Andrea, Vitale, Giovanni, Valente, Giovanna, Vizzutti, Francesco, Villa, Erica, Marra, Fabio, Andreone, Pietro, Falcini, Margherita, Catellani, Barbara, Guerrini, Gian Piero, Serra, Valentina, Di Sandro, Stefano, Ballarin, Roberto, Piai, Guido, Schepis, Filippo, Margotti, Marzia, Cursaro, Carmela, De Simone, Paolo, Petruccelli, Stefania, Carrai, Paola, Forte, Paolo, Campani, Claudia, Zoller, Heinz, and Di Benedetto, Fabrizio

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2022
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2. Itching for Answers: A Comprehensive Review of Cholestatic Pruritus Treatments.

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Gabrielli, Filippo, Crepaldi, Eleonora, Cavicchioli, Alessia, Rivi, Marco, Costanzo, Arianna Carmen, Cursaro, Carmela, and Andreone, Pietro

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ION exchange resins, LITERATURE reviews, OPIOID receptors, QUALITY of life, MONOCLONAL antibodies, ITCHING
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Cholestasis is a clinical and laboratory syndrome indicating impaired bile production or excretion. One of the hallmark symptoms of cholestasis is pruritus. Itch can be severe and debilitating for patients, impacting their quality of life similarly to pain, and, in some cases, it can be refractory. Current therapies like anion exchange resins and rifampicin, offer partial relief but with side effects. Effective, well-tolerated treatments are urgently needed. This literature review examines existing options (bile acid sequestrants, antihistamines, opioid antagonists, sertraline, and rifampicin) and explores novel therapies (monoclonal antibodies, PPAR agonists, and bile-acid-based therapies). We analyze mechanisms, limitations, and adverse effects to aid clinicians and researchers. Novel approaches include monoclonal antibodies to inhibit bile recirculation and PPAR agonists targeting pruritus signaling. Despite the limited current options, ongoing research promises better treatments for cholestatic pruritus, addressing its distressing impact. In summary, cholestasis-associated pruritus poses a significant challenge with limited treatments. Advancements in understanding its pathophysiology offer hope for more effective therapies in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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6. Investigating Acute Hepatitis after SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination or Infection: A Genetic Case Series

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Bernasconi, Elisa, primary, Biagi, Matteo, additional, Di Agostino, Stefania, additional, Cursaro, Carmela, additional, Felicani, Cristina, additional, Ronconi, Enrico, additional, Franchi, Elena, additional, Costanzo, Arianna Carmen, additional, Gabrielli, Filippo, additional, Cavicchioli, Alessia, additional, Ienopoli, Giuseppe, additional, Marenghi, Paolo, additional, Bartoli, Alessandra, additional, Serra, Beatrice, additional, Scalabrini, Davide, additional, Sighinolfi, Pamela, additional, and Andreone, Pietro, additional

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2023
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8. Secondary Sclerosing Cholangitis After SARS-CoV2: ICU Ketamine Use or Virus-Specific Biliary Tropism and Injury in the Context of Biliary Ischemia in Critically Ill Patients?

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Bartoli,Alessandra, Cursaro,Carmela, Seferi,Hajrie, Andreone,Pietro, Bartoli,Alessandra, Cursaro,Carmela, Seferi,Hajrie, and Andreone,Pietro

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Alessandra Bartoli,1,2 Carmela Cursaro,1 Hajrie Seferi,1 Pietro Andreone3,4 1Division of Internal Medicine and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy; 2Post Graduate School of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy; 3Chief of Division of Internal Medicine and metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy; 4Chief of Post Graduate School of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, ItalyCorrespondence: Alessandra Bartoli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Ospedale Civile di Baggiovara, Via Pietro Giardini 1355, Baggiovara, MO, 41126, Italy, Email alessandra.bartoli25@yahoo.comPurpose: From the beginning of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV2) pandemic, different cases of a cholangiopathy with features of secondary sclerosing cholangitis in critically ill patients (SSC-CIP) have been reported. Patients developing it are generally recovering from severe Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) and required intensive care unit (ICU) admission and mechanical ventilation. Many of them have been administered with ketamine during their ICU stay. The pathogenesis of this novel disease is still debated, and, since prognosis is poor, efforts are needed in order to better understand it.Patients and Methods: In this review, we focused our attention on COVID-19 SSC clinical, imaging, and histology findings in order to clarify the different pathogenetic options, particularly in regard of the ischemic-direct viral damage and ketamine-related theories, beginning with a recapitulation of SSC-CIP and ketamine-induced cholangiopathy in abusers. The research has been conducted using PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Key-words were “Secondary Sclerosing Cholangiopathy”

Published
2023

11. Corrigendum to 'An international genome-wide meta-analysis of primary biliary cholangitis: Novel risk loci and candidate drugs' [J Hepatol 2021;75(3):572-581]

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Heather J, Cordell, James J, Fryett, Kazuko, Ueno, Rebecca, Darlay, Yoshihiro, Aiba, Yuki, Hitomi, Minae, Kawashima, Nao, Nishida, Seik-Soon, Khor, Olivier, Gervai, Yosuke, Kawai, Masao, Nagasaki, Katsushi, Tokunaga, Ruqi, Tang, Yongyong, Shi, Zhiqiang, Li, Brian D, Juran, Elizabeth J, Atkinson, Alessio, Gerussi, Marco, Carbone, Rosanna, Asselta, Angela, Cheung, Mariza, de Andrade, Aris, Bara, Julie, Horowitz, Manuel A R, Ferreira, Dylan, Sun, David E, Jone, Steven, Flack, Ann, Spicer, Victoria L, Mulcahy, Jinyoung, Byun, Younghun, Han, Richard N, Sandford, Konstantinos N, Lazaridi, Christopher I, Amo, Gideon M, Hirschfield, Michael F, Seldin, Pietro, Invernizzi, Katherine A, Siminovitch, Xiong, Ma, Minoru, Nakamura, George F, Mell, Siminovitch, Katherine A., Hirschfield, Gideon M., Mason, Andrew, Vincent, Catherine, Xie, Gang, Zhang, Jinyi, Tang, Ruqi, Ma, Xiong, Li, Zhiqiang, Shi, Yongyong, Affronti, Andrea, Almasio, Piero L., Alvaro, Domenico, Andreone, Pietro, Andriulli, Angelo, Azzaroli, Francesco, Battezzati, Pier Maria, Benedetti, Antonio, Bragazzi, Maria Consiglia, Brunetto, Maurizia, Bruno, Savino, Calvaruso, Vincenza, Cardinale, Vincenzo, Casella, Giovanni, Cazzagon, Nora, Ciaccio, Antonio, Coco, Barbara, Colli, Agostino, Colloredo, Guido, Colombo, Massimo, Colombo, Silvia, Cristoferi, Laura, Cursaro, Carmela, Saveria Crocè, Lory, Crosignani, Andrea, D’Amato, Daphne, Donato, Francesca, Elia, Gianfranco, Fabris, Luca, Fagiuoli, Stefano, Ferrari, Carlo, Floreani, Annarosa, Galli, Andrea, Giannini, Edoardo, Grattagliano, Ignazio, Lampertico, Pietro, Lleo, Ana, Malinverno, Federica, Mancuso, Clara, Marra, Fabio, Marzioni, Marco, Massironi, Sara, Mattalia, Alberto, Miele, Luca, Milani, Chiara, Morini, Lorenzo, Morisco, Filomena, Muratori, Luigi, Muratori, Paolo, Niro, Grazia A., O’Donnell, Sarah, Picciotto, Antonio, Portincasa, Piero, Rigamonti, Cristina, Ronca, Vincenzo, Rosina, Floriano, Spinzi, Giancarlo, Strazzabosco, Mario, Tarocchi, Mirko, Tiribelli, Claudio, Toniutto, Pierluigi, Valenti, Luca, Vinci, Maria, Zuin, Massimo, Consortium, Japan-PBC-GWAS, PBC Consortium, U, Consortium, UK-PBC, Luca, Miele (ORCID:0000-0003-3464-0068), Heather J, Cordell, James J, Fryett, Kazuko, Ueno, Rebecca, Darlay, Yoshihiro, Aiba, Yuki, Hitomi, Minae, Kawashima, Nao, Nishida, Seik-Soon, Khor, Olivier, Gervai, Yosuke, Kawai, Masao, Nagasaki, Katsushi, Tokunaga, Ruqi, Tang, Yongyong, Shi, Zhiqiang, Li, Brian D, Juran, Elizabeth J, Atkinson, Alessio, Gerussi, Marco, Carbone, Rosanna, Asselta, Angela, Cheung, Mariza, de Andrade, Aris, Bara, Julie, Horowitz, Manuel A R, Ferreira, Dylan, Sun, David E, Jone, Steven, Flack, Ann, Spicer, Victoria L, Mulcahy, Jinyoung, Byun, Younghun, Han, Richard N, Sandford, Konstantinos N, Lazaridi, Christopher I, Amo, Gideon M, Hirschfield, Michael F, Seldin, Pietro, Invernizzi, Katherine A, Siminovitch, Xiong, Ma, Minoru, Nakamura, George F, Mell, Siminovitch, Katherine A., Hirschfield, Gideon M., Mason, Andrew, Vincent, Catherine, Xie, Gang, Zhang, Jinyi, Tang, Ruqi, Ma, Xiong, Li, Zhiqiang, Shi, Yongyong, Affronti, Andrea, Almasio, Piero L., Alvaro, Domenico, Andreone, Pietro, Andriulli, Angelo, Azzaroli, Francesco, Battezzati, Pier Maria, Benedetti, Antonio, Bragazzi, Maria Consiglia, Brunetto, Maurizia, Bruno, Savino, Calvaruso, Vincenza, Cardinale, Vincenzo, Casella, Giovanni, Cazzagon, Nora, Ciaccio, Antonio, Coco, Barbara, Colli, Agostino, Colloredo, Guido, Colombo, Massimo, Colombo, Silvia, Cristoferi, Laura, Cursaro, Carmela, Saveria Crocè, Lory, Crosignani, Andrea, D’Amato, Daphne, Donato, Francesca, Elia, Gianfranco, Fabris, Luca, Fagiuoli, Stefano, Ferrari, Carlo, Floreani, Annarosa, Galli, Andrea, Giannini, Edoardo, Grattagliano, Ignazio, Lampertico, Pietro, Lleo, Ana, Malinverno, Federica, Mancuso, Clara, Marra, Fabio, Marzioni, Marco, Massironi, Sara, Mattalia, Alberto, Miele, Luca, Milani, Chiara, Morini, Lorenzo, Morisco, Filomena, Muratori, Luigi, Muratori, Paolo, Niro, Grazia A., O’Donnell, Sarah, Picciotto, Antonio, Portincasa, Piero, Rigamonti, Cristina, Ronca, Vincenzo, Rosina, Floriano, Spinzi, Giancarlo, Strazzabosco, Mario, Tarocchi, Mirko, Tiribelli, Claudio, Toniutto, Pierluigi, Valenti, Luca, Vinci, Maria, Zuin, Massimo, Consortium, Japan-PBC-GWAS, PBC Consortium, U, Consortium, UK-PBC, and Luca, Miele (ORCID:0000-0003-3464-0068)

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2022

12. Corrigendum to ‘An international genome-wide meta-analysis of primary biliary cholangitis: Novel risk loci and candidate drugs’ [J Hepatol 2021;75(3):572–581]

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Siminovitch, Katherine A., Hirschfield, Gideon M., Mason, Andrew, Vincent, Catherine, Xie, Gang, Zhang, Jinyi, Tang, Ruqi, Ma, Xiong, Li, Zhiqiang, Shi, Yongyong, Affronti, Andrea, Almasio, Piero L., Alvaro, Domenico, Andreone, Pietro, Andriulli, Angelo, Azzaroli, Francesco, Battezzati, Pier Maria, Benedetti, Antonio, Bragazzi, Maria Consiglia, Brunetto, Maurizia, Bruno, Savino, Calvaruso, Vincenza, Cardinale, Vincenzo, Casella, Giovanni, Cazzagon, Nora, Ciaccio, Antonio, Coco, Barbara, Colli, Agostino, Colloredo, Guido, Colombo, Massimo, Colombo, Silvia, Cristoferi, Laura, Cursaro, Carmela, Crocè, Lory Saveria, Crosignani, Andrea, D’Amato, Daphne, Donato, Francesca, Elia, Gianfranco, Fabris, Luca, Fagiuoli, Stefano, Ferrari, Carlo, Floreani, Annarosa, Galli, Andrea, Giannini, Edoardo, Grattagliano, Ignazio, Lampertico, Pietro, Lleo, Ana, Malinverno, Federica, Mancuso, Clara, Marra, Fabio, Marzioni, Marco, Massironi, Sara, Mattalia, Alberto, Miele, Luca, Milani, Chiara, Morini, Lorenzo, Morisco, Filomena, Muratori, Luigi, Muratori, Paolo, Niro, Grazia A., O’Donnell, Sarah, Picciotto, Antonio, Portincasa, Piero, Rigamonti, Cristina, Ronca, Vincenzo, Rosina, Floriano, Spinzi, Giancarlo, Strazzabosco, Mario, Tarocchi, Mirko, Tiribelli, Claudio, Toniutto, Pierluigi, Valenti, Luca, Vinci, Maria, Zuin, Massimo, Nakamura, Hitomi, Abiru, Seigo, Nagaoka, Shinya, Komori, Atsumasa, Yatsuhashi, Hiroshi, Ishibashi, Hiromi, Ito, Masahiro, Migita, Kiyoshi, Ohira, Hiromasa, Katsushima, Shinji, Naganuma, Atsushi, Sugi, Kazuhiro, Komatsu, Tatsuji, Mannami, Tomohiko, Matsushita, Kouki, Yoshizawa, Kaname, Makita, Fujio, Nikami, Toshiki, Nishimura, Hideo, Kouno, Hiroshi, Kouno, Hirotaka, Ota, Hajime, Komura, Takuya, Nakamura, Yoko, Shimada, Masaaki, Hirashima, Noboru, Komeda, Toshiki, Ario, Keisuke, Nakamuta, Makoto, Yamashita, Tsutomu, Furuta, Kiyoshi, Kikuchi, Masahiro, Naeshiro, Noriaki, Takahashi, Hironao, Mano, Yutaka, Tsunematsu, Seiji, Yabuuchi, Iwao, Shimada, Yusuke, Yamauchi, Kazuhiko, Sugimoto, Rie, Sakai, Hironori, Mita, Eiji, Koda, Masaharu, Tsuruta, Satoru, Kamitsukasa, Hiroshi, Sato, Takeaki, Masaki, Naohiko, Kobata, Tatsuro, Fukushima, Nobuyoshi, Ohara, Yukio, Muro, Toyokichi, Takesaki, Eiichi, Takaki, Hitoshi, Yamamoto, Tetsuo, Kato, Michio, Nagaoki, Yuko, Hayashi, Shigeki, Ishida, Jinya, Watanabe, Yukio, Kobayashi, Masakazu, Koga, Michiaki, Saoshiro, Takeo, Yagura, Michiyasu, Hirata, Keisuke, Tanaka, Atsushu, Takikawa, Hajime, Zeniya, Mikio, Abe, Masanori, Onji, Morikazu, Kaneko, Shuichi, Honda, Masao, Arai, Kuniaki, Arinaga-Hino, Teruko, Hashimoto, Etsuko, Taniai, Makiko, Umemura, Takeji, Joshita, Satoru, Nakao, Kazuhiko, Ichikawa, Tatsuki, Shibata, Hidetaka, Yamagiwa, Satoshi, Seike, Masataka, Honda, Koichi, Sakisaka, Shotaro, Takeyama, Yasuaki, Harada, Masaru, Senju, Michio, Yokosuka, Osamu, Kanda, Tatsuo, Ueno, Yoshiyuki, Kikuchi, Kentaro, Ebinuma, Hirotoshi, Himoto, Takashi, Yasunami, Michio, Murata, Kazumoto, Mizokami, Masashi, Kawata, Kazuhito, Shimoda, Shinji, Miyake, Yasuhiro, Takaki, Akinobu, Yamamoto, Kazuhide, Hirano, Katsuji, Ichida, Takafumi, Ido, Akio, Tsubouchi, Hirohito, Chayama, Kazuaki, Harada, Kenichi, Nakanuma, Yasuni, Maehara, Yoshihiko, Taketomi, Akinobu, Shirabe, Ken, Soejima, Yuji, Mori, Akira, Yagi, Shintaro, Uemoto, Shinji, H, Egawa, Tanaka, Tomohiro, Yamashiki, Noriyo, Tamura, Sumito, Sugawara, Yasuhiro, Kokudo, Norihiro, Juran, Brian D., Atkinson, Elizabeth J., Cheung, Angela, de Andrade, Mariza, Lazaridis, Konstantinos N., Chalasani, Naga, Luketic, Vel, Odin, Joseph, Chopra, Kapil, Baras, Aris, Horowitz, Julie, Abecasis, Goncalo, Cantor, Michael, Coppola, Giovanni, Economides, Aris, Lotta, Luca A., Overton, John D., Reid, Jeffrey G., Shuldiner, Alan, Beechert, Christina, Forsythe, Caitlin, Fuller, Erin D., Gu, Zhenhua, Lattari, Michael, Lopez, Alexander, Schleicher, Thomas D., Padilla, Maria Sotiropoulos, Toledo, Karina, Widom, Louis, Wolf, Sarah E., Pradhan, Manasi, Manoochehri, Kia, Ulloa, Ricardo H., Bai, Xiaodong, Balasubramanian, Suganthi, Barnard, Leland, Blumenfeld, Andrew, Eom, Gisu, Habegger, Lukas, Hawes, Alicia, Khalid, Shareef, Maxwell, Evan K., Salerno, William, Staples, Jeffrey C., Jones, Marcus B., Mitnaul, Lyndon J., Sturgess, Richard, Healey, Christopher, Yeoman, Andrew, Gunasekera, Anton V.J., Kooner, Paul, Kapur, Kapil, Sathyanarayana, V., Kallis, Yiannis, Subhani, Javaid, Harvey, Rory, McCorry, Roger, Rooney, Paul, Ramanaden, David, Evans, Richard, Mathialahan, Thiriloganathan, Gasem, Jaber, Shorrock, Christopher, Bhalme, Mahesh, Southern, Paul, Tibble, Jeremy A., Gorard, David A., Jones, Susan, Mells, George, Mulcahy, Victoria, Srivastava, Brijesh, Foxton, Matthew R., Collins, Carole E., Elphick, David, Karmo, Mazn, Porras-Perez, Francisco, Mendall, Michael, Yapp, Tom, Patel, Minesh, Ede, Roland, Sayer, Joanne, Jupp, James, Fisher, Neil, Carter, Martyn J., Koss, Konrad, Shah, Jayshri, Piotrowicz, Andrzej, Scott, Glyn, Grimley, Charles, Gooding, Ian R., Williams, Simon, Tidbury, Judith, Lim, Guan, Cheent, Kuldeep, Levi, Sass, Mansour, Dina, Beckley, Matilda, Hollywood, Coral, Wong, Terry, Marley, Richard, Ramage, John, Gordon, Harriet M., Ridpath, Jo, Ngatchu, Theodore, Bob Grover, Vijay Paul, Shidrawi, Ray G., Abouda, George, Corless, L., Narain, Mark, Rees, Ian, Brown, Ashley, Taylor-Robinson, Simon, Wilkins, Joy, Grellier, Leonie, Banim, Paul, Das, Debasish, Heneghan, Michael A., Curtis, Howard, Matthews, Helen C., Mohammed, Faiyaz, Aldersley, Mark, Srirajaskanthan, Raj, Walker, Giles, McNair, Alistair, Sharif, Amar, Sen, Sambit, Bird, George, Prince, Martin I., Prasad, Geeta, Kitchen, Paul, Barnardo, Adrian, Oza, Chirag, Sivaramakrishnan, Nurani N., Gupta, Prakash, Shah, Amir, Evans, Chris D.J., Saha, Subrata, Pollock, Katharine, Bramley, Peter, Mukhopadhya, Ashis, Barclay, Stephen T., McDonald, Natasha, Bathgate, Andrew J., Palmer, Kelvin, Dillon, John F., Rushbrook, Simon M., Przemioslo, Robert, McDonald, Chris, Millar, Andrew, Tai, Cheh, Mitchell, Stephen, Metcalf, Jane, Shaukat, Syed, Ninkovic, Mary, Shmueli, Udi, Davis, Andrew, Naqvi, Asifabbas, Lee, Tom J.W., Ryder, Stephen, Collier, Jane, Klass, Howard, Cramp, Matthew E., Sharer, Nichols, Aspinall, Richard, Ghosh, Deb, Douds, Andrew C., Booth, Jonathan, Williams, Earl, Hussaini, Hyder, Christie, John, Mann, Steven, Thorburn, Douglas, Marshall, Aileen, Patanwala, Imran, Ala, Aftab, Maltby, Julia, Matthew, Ray, Corbett, Chris, Vyas, Sam, Singhal, Saket, Gleeson, Dermot, Misra, Sharat, Butterworth, Jeff, George, Keith, Harding, Tim, Douglass, Andrew, Mitchison, Harriet, Panter, Simon, Shearman, Jeremy, Bray, Gary, Roberts, Michael, Butcher, Graham, Forton, Daniel, Mahmood, Zahid, Cowan, Matthew, Das, Debashis, Ch'ng, Chin Lye, Rahman, Mesbah, Whatley, Gregory C.A., Wesley, Emma, Mandal, Aditya, Jain, Sanjiv, Pereira, Stephen P., Wright, Mark, Trivedi, Palak, Gordon, Fiona H., Unitt, Esther, Palejwala, Altaf, Austin, Andrew, Vemala, Vishwaraj, Grant, Allister, Higham, Andrew D., Brind, Alison, Mathew, Ray, Cox, Mark, Ramakrishnan, Subramaniam, King, Alistair, Whalley, Simon, Fraser, Jocelyn, Thomson, S.J., Bell, Andrew, Wong, Voi Shim, Kia, Richard, Gee, Ian, Keld, Richard, Ransford, Rupert, Gotto, James, Millson, Charles, Cordell, Heather J., Fryett, James J., Ueno, Kazuko, Darlay, Rebecca, Aiba, Yoshihiro, Hitomi, Yuki, Kawashima, Minae, Nishida, Nao, Khor, Seik-Soon, Gervais, Olivier, Kawai, Yosuke, Nagasaki, Masao, Tokunaga, Katsushi, Gerussi, Alessio, Carbone, Marco, Asselta, Rosanna, Ferreira, Manuel A.R., Sun, Dylan, Jones, David E., Flack, Steven, Spicer, Ann, Mulcahy, Victoria L., Byun, Jinyoung, Han, Younghun, Sandford, Richard N., Amos, Christopher I., Seldin, Michael F., Invernizzi, Pietro, Nakamura, Minoru, and Mells, George F.

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2022
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13. Secondary Sclerosing Cholangitis After SARS-CoV2: ICU Ketamine Use or Virus-Specific Biliary Tropism and Injury in the Context of Biliary Ischemia in Critically Ill Patients?

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Bartoli A, Cursaro C, Seferi H, and Andreone P

Abstract

Purpose: From the beginning of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV2) pandemic, different cases of a cholangiopathy with features of secondary sclerosing cholangitis in critically ill patients (SSC-CIP) have been reported. Patients developing it are generally recovering from severe Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) and required intensive care unit (ICU) admission and mechanical ventilation. Many of them have been administered with ketamine during their ICU stay. The pathogenesis of this novel disease is still debated, and, since prognosis is poor, efforts are needed in order to better understand it., Patients and Methods: In this review, we focused our attention on COVID-19 SSC clinical, imaging, and histology findings in order to clarify the different pathogenetic options, particularly in regard of the ischemic-direct viral damage and ketamine-related theories, beginning with a recapitulation of SSC-CIP and ketamine-induced cholangiopathy in abusers. The research has been conducted using PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Key-words were "Secondary Sclerosing Cholangiopathy", "SSC-CIP", "Secondary Sclerosing Cholangiopathy in critically ill patients", "Ketamine and cholangiopathy", "Ketamine abusers and liver disease", "Ketamine-related cholangiopathy", "SARS-CoV2 infection and liver disease", "post Covid-19 secondary sclerosing cholangitis", "Covid-19 cholangiopathy"., Results: Many authors, based on the clinical, histological, imaging, and prognostic features of the disease, have pointed out the similarities between post COVID-19 SSC and SSC-CIP; however, peculiar features in the former were not previously observed. Therefore, a direct viral cytopathic action and SARS-CoV2-related coagulopathy are considered the most likely causes. On the other hand, ketamine, with the available data, cannot be surely linked as the main determinant cause of cholangiopathy. Moreover, ketamine-induced cholangitis (KIC) presentation is different from post COVID-19 SSC. Its role as a cofactor precipitating the disease cannot be ruled out., Conclusion: Post COVID-19 SSC is a rare clinical entity following severe COVID-19 disease. The most accepted theory is that a sum of different insults determines the disease: biliary ischemia, direct viral damage, toxic bile, possibly worsened by ketamine and hyperinflammation due to the cytokine storm. Given the severe prognosis of the disease, with persistent cholangiopathy, organ failure, and orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), further study on this novel clinical entity is needed., Competing Interests: The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work and received no funding., (© 2023 Bartoli et al.)

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2023
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14. Quality of life in liver transplant recipients during the Corona virus disease 19 pandemic: A multicentre study.

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Gitto S, Golfieri L, Mannelli N, Tamè MR, Lopez I, Ceccato R, Montanari S, Falcini M, Vitale G, De Maria N, Presti DL, Marzi L, Mega A, Valente G, Borghi A, Foschi FG, Grandi S, Forte P, Cescon M, Di Benedetto F, Andreone P, Arcangeli G, De Simone P, Bonacchi A, Sofi F, Morelli MC, Petranelli M, Lau C, Marra F, Chiesi F, Vizzutti F, Vero V, Di Donato R, Berardi S, Pianta P, D'Anzi S, Schepis F, Gualandi N, Miceli F, Villa E, Piai G, Valente M, Campani C, Lynch E, Magistri P, Cursaro C, Chiarelli A, Carrai P, Petruccelli S, Dinu M, and Pagliai G

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Male, Humans, Female, Quality of Life, Pandemics, Life Style, Transplant Recipients, Liver Transplantation, COVID-19, Diet, Mediterranean psychology
Abstract

Background: Liver transplant recipients require specific clinical and psychosocial attention given their frailty. Main aim of the study was to assess the quality of life after liver transplant during the current pandemic., Methods: This multicentre study was conducted in clinically stable, liver transplanted patients. Enrollment opened in June and finished in September 2021. Patients completed a survey including lifestyle data, quality of life (Short Form health survey), sport, employment, diet. To examine the correlations, we calculated Pearson coefficients while to compare subgroups, independent samples t-tests and ANOVAs. To detect the predictors of impaired quality of life, we used multivariable logistic regression analysis., Results: We analysed data from 511 patients observing significant associations between quality of life's physical score and both age and adherence to Mediterranean diet (p < .01). A significant negative correlation was observed between mental score and the sedentary activity (p < .05). Female patients scored significantly lower than males in physical and mental score. At multivariate analysis, females were 1.65 times more likely to report impaired physical score than males. Occupation and physical activity presented significant positive relation with quality of life. Adherence to Mediterranean diet was another relevant predictor. Regarding mental score, female patients were 1.78 times more likely to show impaired mental score in comparison with males. Sedentary activity and adherence to Mediterranean diet were further noteworthy predictors., Conclusions: Females and subjects with sedentary lifestyle or work inactive seem to show the worst quality of life and both physical activity and Mediterranean diet might be helpful to improve it., (© 2022 The Authors. Liver International published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)

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2022
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