Alcohol-associated hepatitis: a neutrophile disease?
Maximilian Joseph Brol, Ali Canbay, Jonel Trebicka · 2024
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Maximilian Brol and co-authors ask whether alcohol-associated hepatitis should be understood as a disease of one immune cell: the neutrophil. Their 2024 review examines the acute liver crisis that strikes heavy drinkers, where jaundice worsens fast and short-term death rates soar. Systemic inflammation drives the slide toward multi-organ failure.
Neutrophils flood both blood and liver in this condition. Whether their surge damages the liver further or helps it recover remains genuinely contested, and the review weighs both cases. Gut bacteria gone astray feed the fire; one bacterial toxin tracks with worse inflammation and survival. Steroids, the main treatment, are barred when infection is present, which makes early infection detection critical. The authors frame the neutrophil question as the field's fork in the road: calm these cells or support them, but first learn which they are doing.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maximilian Joseph Brol, Ali Canbay, Jonel Trebicka |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |