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ReviewGastro hep advances2022

Silymarin for Treating Toxic Liver Disease: International Consensus Recommendations.

Anton Gillessen, Francesco Angelico, Jun Chen, Lungen Lu, Maria Isabel Lucena, Qingchun Fu, Qing Xie, Raul J Andrade, Wen Xie, Xiaoyuan Xu and 3 more

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Review in Gastro hep advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Anton GillessenDepartment of Internal Medicine, Herz-Jesu-Hospital, Muenster, Germany.
Francesco AngelicoDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy.
Jun ChenDepartment of Liver Disease Medical Center/Head of the Fourth Department of Liver Disease, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China.
Lungen LuDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Maria Isabel LucenaDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
Qingchun FuDepartment of Liver Disease, Centre of Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Shanghai, China.
Qing XieDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Raul J AndradeServices of Gastroenterology & Clinical Pharmacology, Málaga Biomedical Research Institute, IBIMA, University Hospital, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
Wen XieLiver Disease Centre, Beijing Ditan Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Xiaoyuan XuDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing, China.
Yanyan YuDepartment of Infectious Disease, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.
Yi-Min MaoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Yuemin NanDepartment of Liver Diseases, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic liver disease (CLD) is a leading health problem impacting the quality of life globally. China shares a major global burden of CLD-including alcoholic liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease/metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and drug-induced liver injury, except for chronic viral hepatitis. Several exogenous toxins or endogenous metabolic insults trigger hepatic pathology toward steatosis, inflammation, and fibrosis, which, if left untreated, may culminate in liver cirrhosis. Oxidative stress is a common pathomechanism underlying all phenotypes of toxic liver injury; thus, these may be brought under a unified entity, viz. toxic liver disease (TLD). Therefore, a common strategy to treat TLD is to use antioxidants as hepatoprotective agents. The cornerstone for treating fatty liver disease is lifestyle modification, diet, exercise, and behavioral therapy, along with the limited use of pharmacological agents. Available preclinical and clinical evidence indicates that silymarin is a hepatoprotective agent with established antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antifibrotic effects. An international expert panel of clinicians was convened to discuss combining alcoholic liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease/metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, drug-induced liver injury, and liver cirrhosis under the single definition of TLD, based on the shared pathologic mechanism of oxidative stress. The panel highlighted the significance of silymarin as an antioxidant treatment for TLD.

Indexed as

Alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseDrug-Induced Liver InjuryMetabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver DiseaseNonalcoholic Associated Fatty Liver DiseaseSilymarin

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PMID39131840
PMCPMC11307908

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