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Overview

Andres T. Blei was affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on topics related to drug-induced hepatotoxicity and protection, liver disease and transplantation, poisoning and overdose treatments, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, and opioid use disorder treatment.

Their work contributed to fields of study including medicine, pharmacology, toxicology, and pharmaceutics, with subfields encompassing pharmacology, hepatology, emergency medicine, surgery, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Among their recent papers were:

  • A novel microRNA-based prognostic model outperforms standard prognostic models in patients with acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure (2021, Journal of Hepatology)
  • Clinical and Neurologic Outcomes in Acetaminophen-Induced Acute Liver Failure: A 21-Year Multicenter Cohort Study (2020, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology)
  • Association of FDA Mandate Limiting Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) in Prescription Combination Opioid Products and Subsequent Hospitalizations and Acute Liver Failure (2023, JAMA)

The main venues where Blei published research included:

  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • JAMA

They frequently collaborated with other researchers in their field. Coauthors included:

  • Constantine Karvellas
  • Jaime L. Speiser
  • Anne M. Larson
  • William M. Lee
  • Iris Liou

Best Publications

  • Results of a Prospective Study of Acute Liver Failure at 17 Tertiary Care Centers in the United States

    George Ostapowicz;Robert J. Fontana;Frank V. Schioødt;Anne Larson

  • Hepatic encephalopathy—Definition, nomenclature, diagnosis, and quantification: Final report of the Working Party at the 11th World Congresses of Gastroenterology, Vienna, 1998

    Peter Ferenci;Alan Lockwood;Kevin Mullen;Ralph Tarter

  • A randomized, prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of terlipressin for type 1 hepatorenal syndrome.

    Arun J. Sanyal;Thomas Boyer;Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao;Frederick Regenstein

  • Coagulation disorders and hemostasis in liver disease: Pathophysiology and critical assessment of current management

    Stephen H. Caldwell;Maureane Hoffman;Ton Lisman;B. Gail Macik

  • Intensive care of patients with acute liver failure: Recommendations of the U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group

    R. Todd Stravitz;Andreas H. Kramer;Timothy Davern;A. Obaid S Shaikh

  • Etiology and outcome for 295 patients with acute liver failure in the united states

    F. V. Schiodt;E. Atillasoy;A. O. Shakil;E. R. Schiff

  • Infection and the progression of hepatic encephalopathy in acute liver failure

    Javier Vaquero;Julie Polson;Chuhan Chung;Irene Helenowski

  • Randomized controlled study of extracorporeal albumin dialysis for hepatic encephalopathy in advanced cirrhosis

    Tarek I. Hassanein;Flemming Tofteng;Robert S. Brown;Brendan McGuire

  • Portal Hypertension and Its Complications

    Arun J. Sanyal;Jaime Bosch;Andres Blei;Vincente Arroyo

  • Ammonia and related amino acids in the pathogenesis of brain edema in acute ischemic liver failure in rats.

    Margaret Swain;Roger F. Butterworth;Andres T. Blei

  • A vasopressin receptor antagonist (VPA-985) improves serum sodium concentration in patients with hyponatremia: A multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial

    Florence Wong;Andres T. Blei;Laurence M. Blendis;Paul J. Thuluvath

  • Body mass index as a predictor of hepatic steatosis in living liver donors.

    Mary E. Rinella;Estella Alonso;Sambasiva Rao;Peter Whitington

  • Ammonia-induced brain edema and intracranial hypertension in rats after portacaval anastomosis

    Andres T. Blei;Sigurdur Olafsson;Guy Therrien;Roger F. Butterworth

  • Experimental models of hepatic encephalopathy: ISHEN guidelines.

    Roger F. Butterworth;Michael D. Norenberg;Vicente Felipo;Peter Ferenci

  • Complications of intracranial pressure monitoring in fulminant hepatic failure.

    A.T. Blei;S. Olafsson;S. Webster;R. Levy

  • High prevalence of sleep disturbance in cirrhosis

    Juan Córdoba;Juan Cabrera;Louis Lataif;Plamen Penev

  • Complications and use of intracranial pressure monitoring in patients with acute liver failure and severe encephalopathy.

    Javier Vaquero;Robert J. Fontana;Anne M. Larson;Nathan M.T. Bass

  • Predictors of response to terlipressin plus albumin in hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) type 1: Relationship of serum creatinine to hemodynamics

    Thomas D. Boyer;Arun J. Sanyal;Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao;Andres Blei

  • Herpes simplex virus hepatitis: An analysis of the published literature and institutional cases

    John P. Norvell;Andres T. Blei;Borko D. Jovanovic;Josh Levitsky

  • Screening for Wilson disease in acute liver failure: A comparison of currently available diagnostic tests

    Jessica D. Korman;Irene Volenberg;Jody Balko;Joe Webster

Frequent Co-Authors

William M. Lee
William M. Lee The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Robert J. Fontana
Robert J. Fontana University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Abecassis
Michael Abecassis University of Arizona
Raymond T. Chung
Raymond T. Chung Harvard University
Robert S. Brown
Robert S. Brown Cornell University
Phyllis C. Zee
Phyllis C. Zee Northwestern University
Nathan M. Bass
Nathan M. Bass University of California, San Francisco
Roger F. Butterworth
Roger F. Butterworth University of Montreal
Mihai Gheorghiade
Mihai Gheorghiade Northwestern University
Peter F. Whitington
Peter F. Whitington Northwestern University

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