Taurine and Reduced Mechanical Ventilation Duration

• Could taurine supplementation improve graft functions after liver transplantation? A randomized clinical trial among liver transplant recipients.

  • 2026-04
  • RCT · n = 225
  • Clinical nutrition ESPEN 72
  • • Shaghayegh Mottaghi
    • Afsaneh Vazin
    • Hamed Nikoupour
    • Seyed Mohammad Firoozifar
    • Elham Haem
    • Reza Heidari
    • Mojtaba Shafiekhani

  • PubMed: 41605371
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2026.102920

  8 Insights on

  • Reduced Mechanical Ventilation Duration

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  reduced mechanical ventilation duration (mean difference: -20.06 h)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  2 g/day