Characterization of Hypomagnesemia in Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients and Its Association with Liver Injury and Severity Markers
Introduction: Hypomagnesemia has been documented in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). This study aims to characterize hypomagnesemia in alcoholic hepatitis (AH) patients and identify its response with liver injury and severity markers. Materials and Methods: A total of 49 male and female AH pa...
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author | Winrich, Evan J. Tiwari, Harsh Gala, Khushboo S. Royer, Amor J. Parajuli, Dipendra Vatsalya, Vatsalya |
author_facet | Winrich, Evan J. Tiwari, Harsh Gala, Khushboo S. Royer, Amor J. Parajuli, Dipendra Vatsalya, Vatsalya |
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description | Introduction: Hypomagnesemia has been documented in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). This study aims to characterize hypomagnesemia in alcoholic hepatitis (AH) patients and identify its response with liver injury and severity markers. Materials and Methods: A total of 49 male and female AH patients with an age range of 27–66 years were enrolled in this study. Patients were grouped by MELD: MiAH (mild AH < 12 [n = 5]), MoAH (12 ≤ moderate AH ≤ 19 [n = 13]), and SAH (severe AH ≥ 20 [n = 31]). Patients were also evaluated by MELD grouping as non-severe (MELD ≤ 19 [n = 18]) and severe (MELD ≥ 20 [n = 31]). Data were collected on demographics (Age; BMI), drinking history (AUDIT; LTDH), liver injury (ALT; AST), and liver severity (Maddrey’s DF; MELD; AST:ALT). Serum magnesium (SMg) levels were tested as SOC lab (normal ≥ 0.85 ≤ 1.10 mmol/L). Results: SMg was deficient in each group; the lowest in the MoAH patients. The true positivity of SMg values were at a good performance level when compared between severe and non-severe AH patients (AUROC: 0.695, p = 0.034). We found that the SMg level < 0.78 mmol/L could predict severe AH (sensitivity = 0.100 and 1-specificity = 0.000) at this true positivity, and subsequently analyzed patients with SMg < 0.78 mmol/L (Gr.4) and ≥0.78 mmol/L (Gr.5). Between Gr.4 and Gr.5, there were clinically as well as statistically significant differences in disease severity as defined by MELD, Maddrey’s DF, and ABIC scores. Conclusions: This study demonstrates the utility of SMg levels to identify AH patients who may have progressed to severe status. The extent of magnesium response in AH patients also corresponded significantly with the prognosis of liver disease. Physicians suspecting AH in patients with recent heavy drinking may use SMg as an indicator to guide further testing, referrals, or treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-101420062023-04-29 Characterization of Hypomagnesemia in Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients and Its Association with Liver Injury and Severity Markers Winrich, Evan J. Tiwari, Harsh Gala, Khushboo S. Royer, Amor J. Parajuli, Dipendra Vatsalya, Vatsalya J Clin Med Article Introduction: Hypomagnesemia has been documented in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). This study aims to characterize hypomagnesemia in alcoholic hepatitis (AH) patients and identify its response with liver injury and severity markers. Materials and Methods: A total of 49 male and female AH patients with an age range of 27–66 years were enrolled in this study. Patients were grouped by MELD: MiAH (mild AH < 12 [n = 5]), MoAH (12 ≤ moderate AH ≤ 19 [n = 13]), and SAH (severe AH ≥ 20 [n = 31]). Patients were also evaluated by MELD grouping as non-severe (MELD ≤ 19 [n = 18]) and severe (MELD ≥ 20 [n = 31]). Data were collected on demographics (Age; BMI), drinking history (AUDIT; LTDH), liver injury (ALT; AST), and liver severity (Maddrey’s DF; MELD; AST:ALT). Serum magnesium (SMg) levels were tested as SOC lab (normal ≥ 0.85 ≤ 1.10 mmol/L). Results: SMg was deficient in each group; the lowest in the MoAH patients. The true positivity of SMg values were at a good performance level when compared between severe and non-severe AH patients (AUROC: 0.695, p = 0.034). We found that the SMg level < 0.78 mmol/L could predict severe AH (sensitivity = 0.100 and 1-specificity = 0.000) at this true positivity, and subsequently analyzed patients with SMg < 0.78 mmol/L (Gr.4) and ≥0.78 mmol/L (Gr.5). Between Gr.4 and Gr.5, there were clinically as well as statistically significant differences in disease severity as defined by MELD, Maddrey’s DF, and ABIC scores. Conclusions: This study demonstrates the utility of SMg levels to identify AH patients who may have progressed to severe status. The extent of magnesium response in AH patients also corresponded significantly with the prognosis of liver disease. Physicians suspecting AH in patients with recent heavy drinking may use SMg as an indicator to guide further testing, referrals, or treatment. MDPI 2023-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10142006/ /pubmed/37109302 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12082968 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Winrich, Evan J. Tiwari, Harsh Gala, Khushboo S. Royer, Amor J. Parajuli, Dipendra Vatsalya, Vatsalya Characterization of Hypomagnesemia in Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients and Its Association with Liver Injury and Severity Markers |
title | Characterization of Hypomagnesemia in Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients and Its Association with Liver Injury and Severity Markers |
title_full | Characterization of Hypomagnesemia in Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients and Its Association with Liver Injury and Severity Markers |
title_fullStr | Characterization of Hypomagnesemia in Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients and Its Association with Liver Injury and Severity Markers |
title_full_unstemmed | Characterization of Hypomagnesemia in Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients and Its Association with Liver Injury and Severity Markers |
title_short | Characterization of Hypomagnesemia in Alcoholic Hepatitis Patients and Its Association with Liver Injury and Severity Markers |
title_sort | characterization of hypomagnesemia in alcoholic hepatitis patients and its association with liver injury and severity markers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10142006/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37109302 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12082968 |
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