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Thiamine deficiency related microstructural brain changes in acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure of non-alcoholic etiology.
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PMID:  22172599     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Mammillary body atrophy in alcoholic liver disease usually indicates thiamine deficiency. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among blood thiamine, mammillary bodies, major fiber bundle fractional anisotropy, and volume changes with diffusion tensor tractography in patients with acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure of non-alcoholic etiology. METHODS: Blood thiamine, mammillary bodies, fiber bundle fractional anisotropy and volume of major fiber tracts were quantified from acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure patients and compared with healthy controls. In 7 acute liver failure patients, follow-up study was done after clinical recovery at 5 weeks. RESULTS: Blood thiamine, mammillary bodies and fornix volume, and fornix fiber bundle fractional anisotropy were significantly decreased as compared to controls. Blood thiamine showed significant positive correlation with mammillary bodies' volume only. On follow-up study, acute liver failure patients showed significant reversibility only in blood thiamine level and mammillary bodies' volume. CONCLUSIONS: Mammillary bodies' volume changes are primarily a consequence of thiamine deficiency, which may secondarily result in microstructural changes in the fornix. These observable changes are known to be specific and may be reversible with restoration of blood thiamine level. These imaging changes may be used as imaging biomarker of thiamine deficiency in these patients in future.
Authors:
Rakesh Kumar Gupta; Santosh Kumar Yadav; Vivek Anand Saraswat; Murali Rangan; Anshu Srivastava; Abhishek Yadav; Richa Trivedi; Surendra Kumar Yachha; Ram Kishore Singh Rathore
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-12-13
Journal Detail:
Title:  Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1532-1983     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-12-16     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8309603     Medline TA:  Clin Nutr     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd and European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. All rights reserved.
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Department of Radiodiagnosis, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli Road, Lucknow 226014, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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