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ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2025

Gut microbial signatures in autoimmune hepatitis: unlocking diagnostic and therapeutic potential.

Fatima Iftikhar, Aliha Iftikhar, Maliha Khalid, Muhammad Talha, Aminath Waafira

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Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Fatima IftikharDepartment of Medicine, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0878-6784
Aliha IftikharDepartment of Medicine, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4712-7786
Maliha KhalidDepartment of Medicine, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3413-2752
Muhammad TalhaDepartment of Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Aminath WaafiraSchool of Medicine, The Maldives National University, Malé, Maldives.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3283-1982

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory liver disease with unclear etiology but likely results from a complex interplay of genetic susceptibility and environmental triggers. Emerging evidence highlights the role of gut microbiota in AIH pathogenesis, with specific genera such as Veillonella, Lactobacillus, and Oscillospira demonstrating diagnostic value. Dysbiosis-associated biomarkers like lipopolysaccharide and aspartate aminotransferase further support a microbial role in disease onset and progression. Despite these promising developments, rare AIH variants remain poorly characterized due to methodological and population-level limitations. Moving forward, large-scale, longitudinal studies integrating metagenomics, metabolomics, and host genomic data are needed to establish subtype-specific microbial markers and assess the efficacy of targeted interventions such as probiotics and bacteriophage therapy.

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autoimmune hepatitisdysbiosisgut microbiotamicrobial biomarkers

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PMID41181472
PMCPMC12577821

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