Abstract
A "leaky gut" may be the cutting edge for the passage of toxins, antigens or bacteria into the body, and may play a pathogenic role in advanced liver cirrhosis and its complications. Plasma endotoxin levels have been admitted as a surrogate marker of bacterial translocation and close relations of endotoxemia to hyperdynamic circulation, portal hypertension, renal, cardiac, pulmonary and coagulation disturbances have been reported. Bacterial overgrowth, increased intestinal permeability, failure to inactivate endotoxin, activated innate immunity are all likely to play a role in the pathological states of bacterial translocation. Therapeutic approach by management of the gut-liver axis by antibiotics, probiotics, synbiotics, prebiotics and their combinations may improve the clinical course of cirrhotic patients. Special concern should be paid on anti-endotoxin treatment. Adequate management of the gut-liver axis may be effective for prevention of liver cirrhosis itself by inhibiting the progression of fibrosis.
Keywords
MedicineCirrhosisHyperdynamic circulationBacterial translocationSynbioticsSepsisPortal hypertensionImmunologyInternal medicineProbioticChromosomal translocationBacteria
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- 2015
- Type
- review
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 425-425
- Citations
- 186
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Hiroshi Fukui
(2015).
Gut-liver axis in liver cirrhosis: How to manage leaky gut and endotoxemia.
World Journal of Hepatology
, 7
(3)
, 425-425.
https://doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v7.i3.425
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- DOI
- 10.4254/wjh.v7.i3.425