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EBIOMEDICINE
卷 2, 期 9, 页码 1243-1250出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.07.027
关键词
Breath analysis; Cirrhosis; Diagnosis limonene; Liver transplant; PTR-MS; Volatile organic compounds
资金
- Wellcome Trust [097825/Z/11/B] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust [097825/Z/11/B] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
Background: The burden of liver disease in the UK has risen dramatically and there is a need for improved diagnostics. Aims: To determine which breath volatiles are associated with the cirrhotic liver and hence diagnostically useful. Methods: A two-stage biomarker discovery procedure was used. Alveolar breath samples of 31 patients with cirrhosis and 30 healthy controls were mass spectrometrically analysed and compared (stage 1). 12 of these patients had their breath analysed after liver transplant (stage 2). Five patients were followed longitudinally as in-patients in the post-transplant period. Results: Seven volatileswere elevated in the breath of patients versus controls. Of these, five showed statistically significant decrease post-transplant: limonene, methanol, 2-pentanone, 2-butanone and carbon disulfide. On an individual basis limonene has the best diagnostic capability (the area under a receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) is 0.91), but this is improved by combining methanol, 2-pentanone and limonene (AUROC curve 0.95). Following transplant, limonene shows wash-out characteristics. Conclusions: Limonene, methanol and 2-pentanone are breathmarkers for a cirrhotic liver. This study raises the potential to investigate these volatiles as markers for early-stage liver disease. By monitoring the wash-out of limonene following transplant, graft liver function can be non-invasively assessed. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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