| Title: | Analysis of breath volatile organic compounds as a noninvasive tool to diagnose nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children |
| Author(s): | Alkhouri N; Cikach F; Eng K; Moses J; Patel N; Yan C; Hanouneh I; Grove D; Lopez R; Dweik R; |
| Address: | "Departments of aPediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology bQuantitative Health Sciences cDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute dDepartment of Pathobiology, Lerner Research Institute eDepartment of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA" |
| Journal Title: | Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol |
| DOI: | 10.1097/MEG.0b013e3283650669 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1473-5687 (Electronic) 0954-691X (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "OBJECTIVE: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common complications of childhood obesity. Our objective was to investigate the association of breath volatile organic compounds with the diagnosis of NAFLD in children. METHODS: Patients were screened with an ultrasound of the abdomen to evaluate for NAFLD. Exhaled breath was collected and analyzed per protocol using selective ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS). RESULTS: Sixty patients were included in the study (37 with NAFLD and 23 with normal liver). All children were overweight or obese. The mean age was 14.1+/-2.8 years and 50% were female. A comparison of the SIFT-MS results of patients with NAFLD with those with normal liver on ultrasound revealed differences in concentration of more than 15 compounds. A panel of four volatile organic compounds can identify the presence of NAFLD with good accuracy (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.913 in the training set and 0.763 in the validation set). Breath isoprene, acetone, trimethylamine, acetaldehyde, and pentane were significantly higher in the NAFLD group compared with normal liver group (14.7 ppb vs. 8.9 for isoprene; 71.7 vs. 36.9 for acetone; 5.0 vs. 3.2 for trimethylamine; 35.1 vs. 26.0 for acetaldehyde; and 13.3 vs. 8.8 for pentane, P<0.05 for all). CONCLUSION: Exhaled breath analysis is a promising noninvasive method to detect fatty liver in children. Isoprene, acetone, trimethylamine, acetaldehyde, and pentane are novel biomarkers that may help to gain insight into pathophysiological processes leading to the development of NAFLD" |
| Keywords: | Adolescent Age Factors Area Under Curve Biomarkers/metabolism *Breath Tests Child Cross-Sectional Studies *Exhalation Fatty Liver/*diagnosis/diagnostic imaging/etiology/metabolism Female Humans Male Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics/*methods Non-alcoholic Fa; |
| Notes: | "MedlineAlkhouri, Naim Cikach, Frank Eng, Katharine Moses, Jonathan Patel, Nishaben Yan, Chen Hanouneh, Ibrahim Grove, David Lopez, Rocio Dweik, Raed eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2013/11/29 Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2014 Jan; 26(1):82-7. doi: 10.1097/MEG.0b013e3283650669" |
