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The objective of this study is to investigate distinct metabolic alterations in the plasma samples of AAD patients with ALI, AAD patients without ALI, and healthy individuals.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Method:<\/jats:bold> Between September 2019 and September 2022, we retrospectively collected data from 228 AAD patients who were diagnosed with ALI through post-surgery chest X-ray and PaO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\/FiO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> assessments. Univariate analysis was employed to identify pre-surgery risk factors for ALI. Additionally, we conducted high-throughput target metabolic analysis on 90 plasma samples, comprising 30 samples from AAD patients with ALI, 30 from patients with AAD only, and 30 from healthy controls. After LC-MS spectral processing and metabolite quantification, the recursive feature elimination with cross-validation (RFECV) analysis based on the random forest was used to select the optimal metabolites as a diagnostic panel for the detection of AAD patients with ALI. The support vector machines (SVM) machine learning model was further applied to validate the diagnostic accuracy of the established biomarker panel.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold> In the univariate analysis, preoperative \u03b2-HB and TNF-\u03b1 exhibited a significant association with lung injury (OR = 0.906, 95% CI 0.852\u20130.965, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.002; OR = 1.007, 95% CI 1.003\u20131.011, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.0001). The multiple-reaction monitoring analysis of 417 common metabolites identified significant changes in 145 metabolites (fold change &amp;gt;1.2 or &amp;lt;0.833, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &amp;lt; 0.05) across the three groups. Multivariate statistical analysis revealed notable differences between AAD patients and healthy controls. When compared with the non-ALI group, AAD patients with ALI displayed remarkable upregulation in 19 metabolites and downregulation in 4 metabolites. Particularly, combining citric acid and glucuronic acid as a biomarker panel improved the classification performance for distinguishing between the ALI and non-ALI groups.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Discussion:<\/jats:bold> Differentially expressed metabolites in the ALI group were primarily involved in amino acids biosynthesis, carbohydrate metabolism (TCA cycle), arginine and proline metabolism, and glucagon signaling pathway. These findings demonstrate a great potential of the targeted metabolomic approach for screening, routine surveillance, and diagnosis of pulmonary injury in patients with AAD.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmolb.2023.1222133","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,3]],"date-time":"2023-08-03T12:00:56Z","timestamp":1691064056000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Metabolomic characterization benefits the identification of acute lung injury in patients with type A acute aortic dissection"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Linglin","family":"Fan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ke","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fanqi","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuan","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ling","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"5669","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.2012.5669","article-title":"Acute respiratory distress syndrome: The berlin definition","volume":"307","year":"2012","journal-title":"JAMA"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"818","DOI":"10.1164\/ajrccm.149.3.7509706","article-title":"The American-European Consensus Conference on ARDS. 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