Liver transplant modulates gut microbial dysbiosis and cognitive function in cirrhosis

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 907-914

  Bajaj, Jasmohan S ^a   Fagan, Andrew ^a   Sikaroodi, Masoumeh ^b   White, Melanie B ^a   Sterling, Richard K ^a   Gilles, HoChong ^a   Heuman, Douglas ^a   Stravitz, Richard T ^a   Matherly, Scott C ^a   Siddiqui, Mohammed S ^a   Puri, Puneet ^a   Sanyal, Arun J ^a   Luketic, Velimir ^a   John, Binu ^a   Fuchs, Michael ^a   Ahluwalia, Vishwadeep ^a   Gillevet, Patrick M ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; RNA 16S; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIACEAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE ASSESSMENT; DYSBIOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTESTINE FLORA; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POSTOPERATIVE DELIRIUM; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSYCHOMETRIC HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY SCORE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RNA SEQUENCE; RUMINOCOCCACEAE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TAXONOMY; AGED; COGNITION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; COGNITION; DYSBIOSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEOBACTERIA; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 85021089029     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.24754     Document Type: Article

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