Scientific publications for BioPredictive non-invasive diagnostics
Peer-reviewed studies validating BioPredictive blood-test diagnostics for liver disease — from first-in-class development cohorts to long-term meta-analyses.
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Discovery of novel biomarker candidates for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C patients: a preliminary study.
…Therefore suitable serological biomarkers of liver fibrosis are urgently needed. We used…
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Diagnostic value of combined serum biomarkers for the evaluation of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C infection: A multicenter, noninterventional, observational study.
…invasive serum biomarkers, separately and in combinations, on liver fibrosis in treatment…
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Prognostic value of liver fibrosis biomarkers: a meta-analysis.
### Aims And Methods Several serum biomarkers such as FibroTest, aspartate transaminase-platelet…
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Assessment of liver fibrosis: noninvasive means.
…limits of the available biomarkers of liver fibrosis. Among a total of…
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Noninvasive Markers of Hepatic Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis B.
…In conclusion, FibroTest and LSM were the most validated biomarkers of fibrosis…
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Performance of biomarkers FibroTest, ActiTest, SteatoTest, and NashTest in patients with severe obesity: meta analysis of individual patient data.
…FibroTest for advanced fibrosis (95%CI; significance) = 0.85 (0.83-0…
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Comparison of non-invasive fibrosis markers and classical liver biopsy in chronic hepatitis C.
…Our study suggests that serum biomarkers may help to diagnose significant fibrosis…
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The diagnostic value of combining carbohydrate-deficient transferrin, fibrosis, and steatosis biomarkers for the prediction of excessive alcohol consumption.
…the presence of fibrosis and steatosis, estimated using biomarkers FibroTest and SteatoTest…
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Noninvasive Assessment of Liver Fibrosis.
…a 'biological' approach based on the dosage serum biomarkers, and a 'physical…
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Liver fibrosis markers in alcoholic liver disease.
…prognostic values of noninvasive biomarkers of fibrosis in patients with ALD. Several…
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Non-invasive markers for hepatic fibrosis.
…development of biomarkers capable of non-invasive staging of fibrosis in the…
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Prevalence of liver fibrosis and risk factors in a general population using non-invasive biomarkers (FibroTest).
### Background FibroTest and elastography have been validated as biomarkers of liver fibrosis…
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The effectiveness of noninvasive biomarkers to predict hepatitis B-related significant fibrosis and cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy.
…biomarkers have been developed to predict hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related fibrosis…
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FibroMAX: towards a new universal biomarker of liver disease?
…FibroTest (BioPredictive) for the quantitative assessment of fibrosis; SteatoTest (BioPredictive) for the…
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Biomarkers of liver fibrosis.
…compare the quality of fibrosis biomarkers. Neither biomarkers nor biopsy are sufficient…
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Noninvasive diagnosis in alcohol-related liver disease. Review
…features of advanced liver fibrosis, surrogate biomarkers and techniques have been developed…
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Validation of noninvasive biomarkers (FibroTest, SteatoTest, and NashTest) for prediction of liver injury in patients with morbid obesity.
…FibroTest for advanced fibrosis: 0.85, 0.83-0.87, P<0…
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An accurate definition of the status of inactive hepatitis B virus carrier by a combination of biomarkers (FibroTest-ActiTest) and viral load. Key publication
…The use of FibroTest (FT) and ActiTest (AT), biomarkers of fibrosis and…
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Accuracy of prognostic serological biomarkers in predicting liver fibrosis severity in people with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a meta-analysis of over 40,000 participants.
…different prognostic serological biomarkers in predicting liver fibrosis severity in people with…
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Awareness of the severity of liver disease re-examined using software-combined biomarkers of liver fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity.
…DAAs)), the requirement for a fibrosis score to support DDA reimbursement and…
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FibroTest-FibroSURE: towards a universal biomarker of liver fibrosis?
…These include FibroTest (BioPredictive) for the quantitative assessment of fibrosis, and ActiTest…
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Non-invasive biomarkers of liver fibrosis in haemophilia patients with hepatitis C: can you avoid liver biopsy?
…The following biomarkers of fibrosis were used: FT, AST-to-platelet ratio…
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The Distribution of Liver Steatosis, Fibrosis, Steatohepatitis and Inflammation Activity in Alcoholics According to FibroMax Test.
…biomarkers have higher sensitivity to quantify and predict steatosis and fibrosis than…
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The diagnostic value of biomarkers (SteatoTest) for the prediction of liver steatosis. Key publication
…The aim of this study was to identify a panel of biomarkers…
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Performance of liver biomarkers, in patients at risk of nonalcoholic steato-hepatitis, according to presence of type-2 diabetes.
…These indirect comparisons assumed that the gold-standard is binary, whereas fibrosis…
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Improving estimation of liver fibrosis using combination and newer noninvasive biomarker scoring systems in hepatitis C-infected haemophilia patients.
Non-invasive biomarkers have gained popularity for estimating fibrosis stage. In our…
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Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) biomarkers and progression of lower limb arterial calcification in patients with type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study.
…However, the potential relationship between MASLD biomarkers and progression of lower limb…
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Non-invasive assessment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Clinical prediction rules and blood-based biomarkers.
…Current biomarkers constitute predictive models (e.g. NAFLD fibrosis score, FIB-4…
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Predictive value of biomarkers of hepatic fibrosis in adult Fontan patients.
…fibrosis and did not predict cirrhosis. ### Conclusions Abnormal biomarkers of hepatic fibrosis…
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Correlation between liver biopsy and fibrotest in the evaluation of hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…The histological fibrosis results were: 3.1% F0; 24.6% F1; 32…
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Concordance in a world without a gold standard: a new non-invasive methodology for improving accuracy of fibrosis markers.
### Background Assessing liver fibrosis is traditionally performed by biopsy, an imperfect gold…
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Performance of Plasma Biomarkers and Diagnostic Panels for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Advanced Fibrosis in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes.
…fibrosis. However, the performance of noninvasive clinical models/scores and plasma biomarkers…
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Clinical and genetic definition of serum bilirubin levels for the diagnosis of Gilbert syndrome and hypobilirubinemia.
### Background And Aims Gilbert syndrome (GS) is genotypically predetermined by UGT1A1*28…
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Physicians' practices for diagnosing liver fibrosis in chronic liver diseases: a nationwide, Canadian survey.
…Routine assessment of liver fibrosis was requested by the surveyed physicians mostly…
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EASL-ALEH Clinical Practice Guidelines: Non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis. Key publication
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Three Neglected STARD Criteria Reduce the Uncertainty of the Liver Fibrosis Biomarker FibroTest-T2D in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD).
…biomarkers for the diagnosis of the early stage of clinically significant fibrosis…
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Diagnostic accuracy of FibroScan and comparison to liver fibrosis biomarkers in chronic viral hepatitis: a multicenter prospective study (the FIBROSTIC study).
…the main biomarkers used for predicting cirrhosis and significant fibrosis (METAVIR ≥ F2…
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Noninvasive evaluation of NAFLD.
…Ultrasonography-based transient elastography can exclude advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis, but its…
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Noninvasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity in Egyptian children with chronic hepatitis C virus infection using FibroTest and ActiTest.
…found between FT-related fibrosis and fibrosis stage by METAVIR scoring on…
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Two or more synchronous combination of noninvasive tests to increase accuracy of liver fibrosis assessement in chronic hepatitis C; results from a cohort of 446 patients.
…biomarkers and TE could increase the diagnostic accuracy of liver fibrosis assessment…
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Serum apolipoprotein A1 and haptoglobin, in patients with suspected drug-induced liver injury (DILI) as biomarkers of recovery.
### Background There is a clear need for better biomarkers of drug-induced…
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease biomarkers estimate cardiovascular risk based on coronary artery calcium score in type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study with two independent cohorts.
…However, it remains unclear whether NAFLD biomarkers could help estimate cardiovascular risk…
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Diagnostic and prognostic values of noninvasive biomarkers of fibrosis in patients with alcoholic liver disease. Key publication
FibroTest has been validated as a biomarker of fibrosis in patients with…
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Validation of liver fibrosis biomarker (FibroTest) for assessing liver fibrosis progression: proof of concept and first application in a large population.
…Validated biomarkers such as FibroTest should allow powerful analysis of fibrosis progression…
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Staging chronic hepatitis B into seven categories, defining inactive carriers and assessing treatment impact using a fibrosis biomarker (FibroTest®) and elastography (FibroScan®).
…The third aim was to assess the long-term dynamics of fibrosis…
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Long-term prognostic value of the FibroTest in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, compared to chronic hepatitis C, B, and alcoholic liver disease.
…to determine the stage of fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease…
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Non-invasive diagnosis and biomarkers in alcohol-related liver disease. Review
…Non-invasive biological tests have also been evaluated to assess liver fibrosis…
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Noninvasive biomarkers FibroTest and ActiTest versus liver biopsy in chronic hepatitis C patients: the Middle East experience.
…compare noninvasive biomarkers, FibroTest and ActiTest in predicting fibrosis stage and inflammation…
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Impact of Type 2 Diabetes on the Accuracy of Noninvasive Tests of Liver Fibrosis With Resulting Clinical Implications.
### Background & Aims Noninvasive tests (NITs) of liver fibrosis have been suggested to…
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Poynard T, Ratziu V, Imbert-Bismut F, Munteanu M
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Reproducibility of non-invasive fibrosis biomarkers, FibroMeter and FibroTest, could be improved by respecting the analytical standardizations.
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Meta-analyses of FibroTest diagnostic value in chronic liver disease.
### Background FibroTest (FT) is a biomarker of liver fibrosis initially validated in…
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Biomarkers of liver injury for hepatitis clinical trials: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.
…repeated estimates of fibrosis per patient using biomarkers with at least two…
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Methodological aspects of the interpretation of non-invasive biomarkers of liver fibrosis: a 2008 update. Key publication
…interpretation of non-invasive biomarkers in liver fibrosis. A scoring system has…
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with alcoholic liver disease.
…Currently, although several non-invasive fibrosis markers have been suggested as alternatives…
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Poynard T, Imbert-Bismut F, Ratziu V, Myers RP, Di Martino V, Thabut D, Moussalli J, Benhamou Y
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Applicability and variability of liver stiffness measurements according to probe position.
…was used to define advanced fibrosis instead of 8.8 kPa (33…
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Slow regression of liver fibrosis presumed by repeated biomarkers after virological cure in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…At 10 years, among the 415 patients with baseline advanced fibrosis, 49…
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Diagnostic performance of FibroTest-ActiTest, transient elastography, and the fibrosis-4 index in patients with autoimmune hepatitis using histological reference.
…the fibrosis-4 index (FIB-4) and two activity biomarkers (alanine aminotransferase…
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Fibrotest or Fibroscan for evaluation of liver fibrosis in haemophilia patients infected with hepatitis C.
Non-invasive modalities to estimate fibrosis stage are desirable in hepatitis C…
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Assessment of liver fibrosis and associated risk factors in HIV-infected individuals using transient elastography and serum biomarkers.
…invasive fibrosis assessment using transient elastography (TE) and serum biomarkers (Fibrotest [FT…
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Diagnostic performance of FibroTest, SteatoTest and ActiTest in patients with NAFLD using the SAF score as histological reference.
…Contemporaneous biopsies were blindly assessed using the new steatosis, activity and fibrosis…
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Diagnostic value of biochemical markers (NashTest) for the prediction of non alcoholo steato hepatitis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Key publication
### Background Liver biopsy is considered the gold standard for assessing histologic lesions…
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Screening for liver fibrosis by using a noninvasive biomarker in patients with diabetes.
…We examined the efficacy of a screening strategy with a noninvasive fibrosis…
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Relative performances of FibroTest, Fibroscan, and biopsy for the assessment of the stage of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C: a step toward the truth in the absence of a gold standard.
### Background & Aims Liver fibrosis stage is traditionally assessed with biopsy, an imperfect…
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Use of Non-invasive Testing to Stage Liver Fibrosis in Patients with HIV.
Patients with HIV have a proclivity to develop liver fibrosis, especially when…
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Liver biopsy analysis has a low level of performance for diagnosis of intermediate stages of fibrosis.
…performance for fibrosis stage F2 (few septa) vs F1 (fibrosis without septa…
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Applicability and precautions of use of liver injury biomarker FibroTest. A reappraisal at 7 years of age.
### Background FibroTest (FT) is a validated biomarker of fibrosis. To assess the…
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Progression of Liver Fibrosis in HIV/HCV Co-Infection: A Comparison between Non-Invasive Assessment Methods and Liver Biopsy.
…NITs) of liver fibrosis and to assess fibrosis progression over time in…
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Prognostic value of liver fibrosis and steatosis biomarkers in type-2 diabetes and dyslipidaemia.
…value of non-invasive biomarkers of liver fibrosis (FibroTest) and steatosis (SteatoTest…
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FibroTest and Fibroscan performances revisited in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Impact of the spectrum effect and the applicability rate.
### Background Two widely used biomarkers of fibrosis, FibroTest and liver stiffness measurement…
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Evolution of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Biomarkers in Response to Weight Loss 1 Year After Bariatric Surgery-a Post Hoc Analysis of the FibroTest Prospective Study.
…Regarding fibrosis, FibroTest® was not accurate in patients with extreme obesity.
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Effective use of FibroTest to generate decision trees in hepatitis C.
…fibrosis scores in clinical studies and improve our understanding of fibrosis progression.
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Noninvasive tests for fibrosis and liver stiffness predict 5-year outcomes of patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Background & Aims Liver stiffness can be measured noninvasively to assess liver fibrosis…
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Non-invasive evaluation of the liver disease severity in children with chronic viral hepatitis using FibroTest and ActiTest - comparison with histopathological assessment.
…the necroinflammatory activity or the fibrosis did not differ by more than…
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The impact of liver disease aetiology and the stages of hepatic fibrosis on the performance of non-invasive fibrosis biomarkers: an international study of 2411 cases.
### Background Performance of non-invasive fibrosis biomarkers may be influenced by aetiology…
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Screening studies of transient elastography and FibroTest in the general population - Authors' reply.
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Systematic review with meta-analysis: direct comparisons of biomarkers for the diagnosis of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C and B.
…TE had lower performance than FibroTest for identifying advanced fibrosis in All…
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Comparison of Fibrotest and PGAA for the diagnosis of fibrosis stage in patients with alcoholic liver disease.
…The Obuchowski measure was assessed taking into account the distribution of fibrosis…
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Noninvasive, Blood-Based Biomarkers as Screening Tools for Hepatic Fibrosis in People With Type 2 Diabetes.
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Impact of adefovir dipivoxil on liver fibrosis and activity assessed with biochemical markers (FibroTest-ActiTest) in patients infected by hepatitis B virus. Key publication
…The analysis of 924 estimates for the diagnosis of bridging fibrosis, cirrhosis…
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European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) clinical practice recommendations for the management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: evaluation of their application in people with Type 2 diabetes.
…and/or biological biomarkers of steatosis and fibrosis be specifically validated in…
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Screening studies of transient elastography and FibroTest in the general population.
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Evolution of biomarkers of liver fibrosis and liver insufficiency in hepatitis C virus-infected patients treated with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin and rituximab.
…on biomarkers of liver insufficiency in patients with severe liver fibrosis. Twenty…
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LCR1 and LCR2, two multi-analyte blood tests to assess liver cancer risk in patients without or with cirrhosis. Key publication
…gammaglutamyltranspeptidase), and a marker of fibrosis (alpha2-macroglobulin). To increase the specificity…
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Personalized management of cirrhosis by non-invasive tests of liver fibrosis.
…In recent years, the development of non-invasive tests of fibrosis allows…
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Novel Biomarkers of Grade I Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Metabolic-Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease.
…This study aimed to identify predictive biomarkers associated with grade I left…
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Molecular characteristics of Hepatitis B and chronic liver disease in a cohort of HB carriers from Bamako, Mali.
…About 1/3 of carriers have moderate to severe liver fibrosis and…
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Fibrosis assessment in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.
…The detection and quantification of liver fibrosis is a key factor for…
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FibroTest-ActiTest as a non-invasive marker of liver fibrosis. Key publication
FibroTest (FT) is a biomarker of liver fibrosis initially validated in patients…
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Comparative diagnostic study of biomarkers using FibroMax™ and pathology for prediction of liver steatosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection: an Egyptian study.
### Background Steatosis is common in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection…
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Real-Time Shear Wave versus Transient Elastography for Predicting Fibrosis: Applicability, and Impact of Inflammation and Steatosis. A Non-Invasive Comparison.
…In patients with non-advanced fibrosis (METAVIR F0F1F2), elasticity values estimated by…
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Toward non-invasive assessment strategies in autoimmune hepatitis.
…activity compared to conventional biomarkers. Assessing liver fibrosis is crucial for managing…
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Comparison of non-invasive assessment to diagnose liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B and C patients.
### Objective Chronic viral hepatitis B and C cause liver fibrosis, leading to…
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Comparison of non-invasive liver fibrosis biomarkers in HIV/HCV co-infected patients: the fibrovic study--ANRS HC02.
…non-invasive liver fibrosis biomarkers for the prediction of significant liver fibrosis.
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EASL-EASD-EASO Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
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Biomarkers for the prediction of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic alcoholic liver disease.
…standard serum marker of fibrosis. ### Results Advanced fibrosis (F2-F4) was present…
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Noninvasive Testing for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Hepatic Fibrosis in Patients With Psoriasis Receiving Long-term Methotrexate Sodium Therapy.
…The NASH FibroSure test can be used to monitor changes in fibrosis…
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Prospective direct comparison of non-invasive liver tests in outpatients with type 2 diabetes using intention-to-diagnose analysis.
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Optimization and robustness of blood tests for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis.
### Objectives To optimize the performance and feasibility of fibrosis blood tests and…
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Prevalence of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in 699 Moroccan patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Introduction chronic hepatitis C (CHC) can cause severe complications, including fibrosis and…
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A prospective analysis of the prognostic value of biomarkers (FibroTest) in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Key publication
### Background FibroTest, a noninvasive method of measuring biomarkers of liver fibrosis, is…
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
…nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver fibrosis. Patients underwent an objective assessment of…
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Performances of Elasto-FibroTest(®), a combination between FibroTest(®) and liver stiffness measurements for assessing the stage of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…the non-invasive assessment of fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C…
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GlycoFibroTest is a highly performant liver fibrosis biomarker derived from DNA sequencer-based serum protein glycomics.
Liver fibrosis is currently assessed by liver biopsy, a costly and rather…
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Biomarkers for liver disease in urea cycle disorders.
…of several non-invasive biomarkers for liver fibrosis in UCDs. ### Methods We…
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LCR1 and LCR2, two multi-analyte blood tests to assess liver cancer risk in patients without or with cirrhosis.
…gammaglutamyltranspeptidase), and a marker of fibrosis (alpha2-macroglobulin). To increase the specificity…
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Performance of serum apolipoprotein-A1 as a sentinel of Covid-19. Key publication
…for a risk of liver fibrosis risk in the USA (212,297…
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, nocturnal hypoxia, and endothelial function in patients with sleep apnea.
…steatosis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and fibrosis in a large cohort of patients…
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[The diagnostic value of non-invasive biochemical biomarkers in alcohol abuse].
### Unlabelled The diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease, steatosis, fibrosis and alcoholic steatohepatitis…
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Liver fibrosis evaluation using real-time shear wave elastography: applicability and diagnostic performance using methods without a gold standard.
…limited comparisons with other validated fibrosis biomarkers. The aim was to assess…
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Successful treatment with telaprevir-based regimens for chronic hepatitis C results in significant improvements to serum markers of liver fibrosis.
…All four of these tests differentiated the fibrosis stage as determined by…
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The use of transient elastography and FibroTest for monitoring hepatotoxicity in patients receiving methotrexate for psoriasis.
…FibroTest is an indirect serum marker of hepatic fibrosis. ### Main Outcomes And…
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Study of FibroTest and hyaluronic acid biological variation in healthy volunteers and comparison of serum hyaluronic acid biological variation between chronic liver diseases of different etiology and fibrotic stage using confidence intervals.
### Objectives Personalized ranges of liver fibrosis serum biomarkers such as FibroTest or…
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Comparison of ELF, FibroTest and FibroScan for the non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis.
### Background FibroTest (FT) is the most frequently used serum fibrosis marker and…
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A brief review on molecular, genetic and imaging techniques for HCV fibrosis evaluation.
…initial to end stage (mild fibrosis to cirrhosis). Although, liver biopsy is…
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The predictive value of FIB-4 versus FibroTest, APRI, FibroIndex and Forns index to noninvasively estimate fibrosis in hepatitis C and nonhepatitis C liver diseases.
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Noninvasive biomarkers for the screening of fibrosis, steatosis and steatohepatitis in patients with metabolic risk factors: FibroTest-FibroMax experience. Key publication
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Validation of AshTest as a Non-Invasive Alternative to Transjugular Liver Biopsy in Patients with Suspected Severe Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis.
### Background/Aims According to guidelines, the histological diagnosis of severe alcoholic steatohepatitis…
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Comparison of liver fibrosis blood tests developed for HCV with new specific tests in HIV/HCV co-infection.
…Within these populations, the diagnostic target, significant fibrosis (Metavir F > or = 2…
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Review article: the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease -- availability and accuracy of non-invasive methods.
…The staging of liver fibrosis still represents the most important prognostic problem…
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Prevalence of steatosis and insulin resistance in patients with chronic hepatitis B compared with chronic hepatitis C and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
…The prevalence of fibrosis≥F2 was 10% (CHB), 42% (CHC) and 21…
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Performance of 11 biomarkers for liver fibrosis assessment in HIV/HBV co-infected patients.
…fibrosis assessment in HIV/HBV co-infection. Global performance of biomarkers was…
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Cost effectiveness of fibrosis assessment prior to treatment for chronic hepatitis C patients.
…Liver biopsy is the gold standard for assessing liver fibrosis and is…
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[Biomarkers for liver fibrosis: advances, advantages and disadvantages].
…the biomarkers that are currently being used for studying liver fibrosis in…
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Prospective comparison of two algorithms combining non-invasive methods for staging liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background & Aims Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis is a challenging area…
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Non-invasive tests for fibrosis and liver stiffness predict 5-year survival of patients chronically infected with hepatitis B virus.
…Survival was significantly decreased in patients diagnosed with severe fibrosis, whatever the…
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Improved inflammatory activity with peginterferon alfa-2b maintenance therapy in non-cirrhotic prior non-responders: a randomized study.
…therapy in patients with METAVIR fibrosis scores (MFS) of F2 or F3…
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Noninvasive procedures to evaluate liver involvement in HIV-1 vertically infected children.
### Objectives : Progressive liver injury is a concern in HIV-infected children exposed…
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Fibrotest-Actitest: the biochemical marker of liver fibrosis--the Israeli experience.
…that allows quantification of liver fibrosis and inflammation. This test has been…
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Impact of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease on long-term cardiovascular events and death in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
…In univariate analysis, patients with liver fibrosis had more cardiovascular events and…
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Non-invasive Investigations for the Diagnosis of Fontan-Associated Liver Disease in Pediatric and Adult Fontan Patients.
…We hypothesized that specific tests for fibrosis developed for other chronic liver…
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Screening for liver disease using non-invasive biomarkers (FibroTest, SteatoTest and NashTest) in patients with hyperlipidaemia.
…Biomarkers could be useful for screening of advanced fibrosis and NASH in…
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Noninvasive diagnosis of liver cirrhosis using DNA sequencer-based total serum protein glycomics.
…Consequently, the highly specific set of biomarkers presented could obviate biopsy in…
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The product of triglycerides and glucose as biomarker for screening simple steatosis and NASH in asymptomatic women.
…other biomarkers for recognizing NAFLD. ### Material And Methods Asymptomatic women aged 20…
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Variability in definitions of transaminase upper limit of the normal impacts the APRI performance as a biomarker of fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C: "APRI c'est fini ?".
…patented blood test for diagnosing fibrosis or cirrhosis in patients with chronic…
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Noninvasive assessment of portal hypertension in patients with cirrhosis.
…investigate the development of hepatic fibrosis through the measurement of increased intrahepatic…
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Hepatitis B: are non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis reliable?
…a 'biological' approach, based on the quantification of biomarkers of fibrosis in…
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Prospective validation of FibroTest in comparison with liver stiffness for predicting liver fibrosis in Asian subjects with chronic hepatitis B.
### Background And Aims Diagnostic values of FibroTest (FT) for hepatic fibrosis have…
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Prospective evaluation of FibroTest®, FibroMeter®, and HepaScore® for staging liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B: comparison with hepatitis C.
### Background & Aims Fibrosis blood tests have been validated in chronic hepatitis C…
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Transient elastography and biomarkers for liver fibrosis assessment and follow-up of inactive hepatitis B carriers.
…transient elastography (TE) and biomarkers for liver fibrosis assessment and follow-up…
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Including osteoprotegerin and collagen IV in a score-based blood test for liver fibrosis increases diagnostic accuracy.
### Background Noninvasive methods for liver fibrosis evaluation in chronic liver diseases have…
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Non-invasive diagnosis of steatosis, inflammatory changes and liver fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases. Pilot study.
…However, in the male group, the intensity of liver fibrosis was higher…
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Improved diagnostic accuracy of blood tests for severe fibrosis and cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Objective Blood tests are usually designed to identify significant fibrosis. We evaluated…
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Transient Elastography for Assessment of Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis: An Evidence-Based Analysis.
### Background Liver fibrosis is a sign of advanced liver disease and is…
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Impact of quality control accepted inter-laboratory variations on calculated Fibrotest/Actitest scores for the non-invasive biochemical assessment of liver fibrosis.
…serum-based assessment of liver fibrosis is still an important diagnostic challenge…
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[Prognosis assessment of alcoholic liver disease: how and why?].
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) causes more than 5000 deaths per year in…
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Fibromax-based nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with obstructive sleep apnea: Methodological considerations.
…determine the prevalence of liver fibrosis, steatosis and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in…
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Variability of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves in the diagnostic evaluation of liver fibrosis markers: impact of biopsy length and fragmentation.
…of each fibrosis stage defining advanced and non-advanced fibrosis. ### Results The…
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Diagnostic accuracy and prognostic significance of blood fibrosis tests and liver stiffness measurement by FibroScan in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
…Two fibrosis classifications were developed to precisely estimate the histological fibrosis stage…
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The FibroTest value in discriminating between insignificant and significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C patients. The Romanian experience.
…Liver fibrosis was evaluated according to the METAVIR scoring system on a…
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The Diagnostic Value of FibroTest and Hepascore as Non-Invasive Markers of Liver Fibrosis in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC).
…The FibroTest in point 0.51 for the diagnosis of fibrosis obtained…
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Stage of liver fibrosis in patients with congenital bleeding disorders and infected with hepatitis C virus.
…Liver fibrosis was measured with shear wave elastography and FibroTest. The risk…
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ActiTest accuracy for the assessment of histological activity grades in patients with chronic hepatitis C, an overview using Obuchowski measure.
### Background ActiTest (AT) is a biomarker of liver necro-inflammatory histological activity…
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Longitudinal assessment of hepatitis C fibrosis progression by collagen and smooth muscle actin morphometry in comparison to serum markers.
### Background Assessment of fibrosis progression in chronic liver disease relies upon non…
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FibroSURE as a noninvasive marker of liver fibrosis and inflammation in chronic hepatitis B.
### Background Noninvasive markers of liver fibrosis have not been extensively studied in…
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The accuracy of the FIB-4 index for the diagnosis of mild fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B.
…A cut-off value
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Contribution of the ELFG test in algorithms of non-invasive markers towards the diagnosis of significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…for the diagnosis of significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients…
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Diagnosis of fibrosis and cirrhosis. Liver biopsy is not always necessary.
…Transient elastography is reliable in detecting moderate to severe fibrosis and cirrhosis…
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FibroTest/Fibrosure for significant liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis B: a meta-analysis.
### Objectives Extent of liver fibrosis is one of the most important factors…
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Assessment of Selected Parameters of Liver Fibrosis and Inflammation in Patients with Diagnosed Cystic Fibrosis.
…The study included 79 patients with cystic fibrosis, aged 1 to 20…
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Assessment of liver fibrosis and steatosis in PBC with FibroScan, MRI, MR-spectroscopy, and serum markers.
…fibrosis received transient elastography and examinations for serum markers of fibrosis and…
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Current Possibilities to Assess the Degree of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Haemophilia Infected with HCV--Review.
Haemophilia is an entity, wherein the HCV infection rate is greater than…
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Effect of antiviral treatment on serum markers of liver fibrosis in HIV-hepatitis C virus-coinfected patients: the Fibrovic 2 Study - ANRS HC02.
### Background Non-invasive liver fibrosis scores have been proposed as alternatives to…
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Current complications and challenges in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis screening and diagnosis.
…Newly developed elastography based techniques seem promising to estimate liver fibrosis. Other…
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An independent and prospective comparison of two commercial fibrosis marker panels (HCV FibroSURE and FIBROSpect II) during albinterferon alfa-2b combination therapy for chronic hepatitis C.
Noninvasive markers that accurately follow changes in fibrosis may provide alternatives to…
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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Unlabelled Liver biopsy is the gold standard for assessing fibrosis but has…
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Diagnostic value of biochemical markers (FibroTest-FibroSURE) for the prediction of liver fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Key publication
…and non-invasive quantitative estimate of liver fibrosis reliably predicts advanced fibrosis.
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Finasteride and methadone use and risk of advanced hepatitis C related liver disease.
…F0-F3, mild fibrosis; and A2/A3-A3, advanced vs. A0-A2…
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The impact of bariatric surgery on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease as measured using non-invasive tests.
…Mean fibrosis, as measured by SWE liver stiffness and FibroTest™, did not…
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Liver stiffness measurement and biochemical markers in Senegalese chronic hepatitis B patients with normal ALT and high viral load.
…a fibrosis in 18% of cases for FT (8% severe fibrosis) and…
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Noninvasive Indirect Markers of Liver Fibrosis in Alcoholics.
…The fibrosis stage was evaluated on the basis of FibroTest. The values…
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Clinical Interest of Serum Alpha-2 Macroglobulin, Apolipoprotein A1, and Haptoglobin in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, with and without Type 2 Diabetes, before or during COVID-19.
…with the risk of liver fibrosis, inflammation (NASH), and COVID-19. We…
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The risk of multiplying diagnostic combinations in the absence of a perfect gold standard for a fibrosis test.
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Liver stiffness measurement in children using FibroScan: feasibility study and comparison with Fibrotest, aspartate transaminase to platelets ratio index, and liver biopsy.
…By histology, the METAVIR fibrosis category score was F1 in 7 cases…
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Assessment of methotrexate hepatotoxicity in psoriasis patients: a prospective evaluation of four serum fibrosis markers.
…However, its use is hampered by the risk of liver fibrosis. ### Aim…
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A novel panel of blood markers to assess the degree of liver fibrosis.
The objective was to develop new blood tests to characterize different fibrosis…
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External validation of LCR1-LCR2, a multivariable HCC risk calculator, in patients with chronic HCV.
…glutamyl transferase), a marker of fibrosis (alpha2-macroglobulin) and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP…
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Accuracy of the Enhanced Liver Fibrosis Test vs FibroTest, Elastography, and Indirect Markers in Detection of Advanced Fibrosis in Patients With Alcoholic Liver Disease.
…We compared the accuracy of the Enhanced Liver Fibrosis test (ELF), the…
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Transient elastography using Fibroscan is the most reliable noninvasive method for the diagnosis of advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis in alcoholic liver disease.
…0.83-0.95) for the diagnosis of advanced fibrosis and 0…
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Letter: FibroTest for staging fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Acoustic radiation force imaging sonoelastography for noninvasive staging of liver fibrosis.
…Histopathological staging of liver fibrosis according to the METAVIR scoring system served…
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Altered serum N-glycomics in chronic hepatitis B patients.
…Liver fibrosis was staged using Ishak score. N-glycan profiles of serum…
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Letter: APRI and FIB-4 do not correlate with Fibrosure in the evaluation of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C patients.
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Diagnostic performance of a new noninvasive test for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis using a simplified histological reference.
…with significant inflammatory activity or fibrosis (A2orF2) were missed by the current…
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Non-invasive evaluation of liver fibrosis by transient elastography and biochemical markers in elderly inpatients.
### Aim The objective of this study was to evaluate liver fibrosis using…
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An evaluation of the potential cost-effectiveness of non-invasive testing strategies in the diagnosis of significant liver fibrosis.
…the diagnosis of significant liver fibrosis (Metavir score >or= 2) compared with…
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Noninvasive methods, including transient elastography, for the detection of liver disease in adults with cystic fibrosis.
…mortality in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). However, detection of CF-associated…
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Prospective noninvasive analysis of hepatic fibrosis in patients with Crohn's disease: correlation of transient elastography and laboratory-based markers.
…Established markers of fibrosis, namely, aspartate transaminase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI…
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Editorial: FibroTest to predict liver-related mortality in NAFLD. Should this change the diagnostic algorithm in NAFLD?
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Non-invasive diagnosis of hepatitis B virus-related cirrhosis.
…These include measurements of serum biomarkers of fibrosis; and assessment of liver…
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of fibrosis marker panels in patients with HIV/hepatitis C coinfection.
### Background Accurately staging hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related fibrosis is crucial for…
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Comparison of fatty liver index with noninvasive methods for steatosis detection and quantification.
### Aim To compare noninvasive methods presently used for steatosis detection and quantification…
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The role of the non-invasive serum marker FibroTest-ActiTest in the prediction of histological stage of fibrosis and activity in children with naïve chronic hepatitis B infection.
…FT predicted insignificant fibrosis in 14/23 (61%) patients at a cut…
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Noninvasive Markers of Steatosis, NASH, and Liver Fibrosis in HIV-Monoinfected Individuals at Risk of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): Results From the ECHAM Study.
…Noninvasive tests of steatosis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and fibrosis have been poorly…
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Standardization of ROC curve areas for diagnostic evaluation of liver fibrosis markers based on prevalences of fibrosis stages. Key publication
…one approach assumed a uniform prevalence distribution of each fibrosis stage; the…
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Development and validation of a nomogram based on clinical factors and standard laboratory tests for prediction of clinically significant liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
### Objectives Staging liver fibrosis in chronic viral hepatitis C (HCV) patients is…
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Alpha-2-macroglobulin and hepatic fibrosis. Diagnostic interest.
…for detection of cirrhosis or fibrosis among drinkers, particularly in patients without…
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Liver fibrosis: noninvasive assessment with acoustic radiation force impulse elastography--comparison with FibroScan M and XL probes and FibroTest in patients with chronic liver disease.
…Histologic staging of liver fibrosis served as the reference standard. ### Results Liver…
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Transient elastography and other noninvasive tests to assess hepatic fibrosis in patients with viral hepatitis.
…The combination of both approaches as first-line assessment of liver fibrosis…
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A Single Test Combining Blood Markers and Elastography is More Accurate Than Other Fibrosis Tests in the Main Causes of Chronic Liver Diseases.
…Noninvasive fibrosis evaluation can thus be simplified in the main etiologies by…
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Performance of the SteatoTest, ActiTest, NashTest and FibroTest in a multiethnic cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
…Non-invasive panels for the diagnosis of steatosis, NASH and/or fibrosis…
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Coffee consumption and nonalcoholic fatty liver onset: a prospective study in the general population.
…FibroTest was used to assess fibrosis degree. A structured questionnaire on coffee…
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HCV-GenoFibrotest: a combination of viral, liver and genomic (IL28b, ITPA, UGT1A1) biomarkers for predicting treatment response in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…The hypothesis was that fibrosis stage estimated with FibroTest instead of biopsy…
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Management of the patient with SVR. Review
…in those with more advanced fibrosis. To maximize the health benefits of…
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Comparison of accuracy of fibrosis degree classifications by liver biopsy and non-invasive tests in chronic hepatitis C.
…Recently, detailed fibrosis classifications for several non-invasive tests have been developed…
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Letter: FibroTest for staging fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease - authors' reply.
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FibroSURE and FibroScan in relation to treatment response in chronic hepatitis C virus.
### Aim To compare histological endpoint assessment using noninvasive alternatives to biopsy during…
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Performance of noninvasive markers for liver fibrosis is reduced in chronic hepatitis C with normal transaminases.
…Few studies investigated noninvasive markers of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C virus…
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Response to: Impact of Type 2 Diabetes on the Accuracy of Noninvasive Tests of Liver Fibrosis With Resulting Clinical Implications, by Jerome Boursier et al.
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Blood tests to diagnose fibrosis or cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis: Between prediction/prevention of outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
…diagnosing severe fibrosis and cirrhosis and for excluding significant fibrosis in hepatitis…
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Contribution of the ELFG test in algorithms of non-invasive markers towards the diagnosis of significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…for the diagnosis of significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients…
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Serum bile acid levels as a predictor for the severity of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…The SBA levels were significantly higher in patients with severe fibrosis as…
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Effects of patient factors on noninvasive liver stiffness measurement using acoustic radiation force impulse elastography in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…LSM. ### Results To classify METAVIR fibrosis (F) stages, the areas under ROC…
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Independent prospective multicenter validation of biochemical markers (fibrotest-actitest) for the prediction of liver fibrosis and activity in patients with chronic hepatitis C: the fibropaca study.
### Objectives Fibrotest (FT) and Actitest (AT) are biochemical markers of fibrosis and…
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FIB-4: an inexpensive and accurate marker of fibrosis in HCV infection. comparison with liver biopsy and fibrotest.
…determine the degree of hepatic fibrosis have been developed. The aims of…
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Liver fibrosis regression and progression during controlled hepatitis B virus infection among HIV-HBV patients treated with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in France: a prospective cohort study.
…Risk factors for fibrosis progression (F0-F1-F2 to F3-F4) and…
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FibroTest (FT) has similar accuracy for cirrhosis in 'intention-to-diagnose' which is superior to transient elastography (TE) in chronic hepatitis B.
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Prevalence of clinically significant liver disease within the general population, as defined by non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis: a systematic review.
…Non-invasive tests of liver fibrosis might provide a mechanism for earlier…
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External Validation of LCR1-LCR2, a Multivariable Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk Calculator, in a Multiethnic Cohort of Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B.
…glutamyl transpeptidase), a marker of fibrosis (alpha2-macroglobulin), and alpha-fetoprotein, a…
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Transient elastography: a new surrogate marker of liver fibrosis influenced by major changes of transaminases.
…We identified 8.3 and 14 kPa as the fibrosis >/=F2 and…
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Non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease in a group of Mexican children. A multicenter study.
### Introduction Identifying liver fibrosis is important to evaluate the severity of liver…
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Screening for liver fibrosis by using FibroScan(®) and FibroTest in patients with diabetes.
…Severe fibrosis was predicted when FibroTest was >0.59 or liver stiffness…
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Predicting significant fibrosis in hepatitis C patients in Luxembourg using serological markers.
…Fibrotest and Forns scores were compared with liver fibrosis pathology scored according…
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Role of genotype G hepatitis B virus mixed infection on the progression of hepatic fibrosis in HIV positive patients over 5 years of follow-up.
…The impact of HBV-G on liver fibrosis progression, as assessed by…
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Blood tests to diagnose fibrosis or cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection: a systematic review.
…For identifying clinically significant fibrosis, the platelet count, age-platelet index, aspartate…
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Comparison of nine blood tests and transient elastography for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C: the ANRS HCEP-23 study.
…elastography (Fibroscan™) to assess liver fibrosis, vs. liver biopsy, in untreated patients…
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Diagnostic value of serum protein profiling by SELDI-TOF ProteinChip compared with a biochemical marker, FibroTest, for the diagnosis of advanced fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Background FibroTest has been validated for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis in…
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Comparison of FibroTest-ActiTest with histopathology in demonstrating fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity in chronic hepatitis B and C.
…Levels of fibrosis in FibroTest and levels of activity in ActiTest, both…
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Performance of the FibroTest cannot be accurately estimated in nine paediatric patients with advanced fibrosis.
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Systematic review: Investigating the prognostic performance of four non-invasive tests in alcohol-related liver disease.
…Non-invasive tests (NITs) are increasingly used to detect fibrosis, but their…
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An update on the management of hepatitis C: consensus guidelines from the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver. Key publication
Chronic hepatitis C remains a significant medical and economic burden in Canada…
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Liver fibrosis: consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL). Key publication
Liver fibrosis is a common pathway leading to cirrhosis, which is the…
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Prospective external validation of a new non-invasive test for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in patients with type 2 diabetes.
…the three main histological features, fibrosis, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and steatosis…
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[SWE elastography in assessment of liver fibrosis].
Liver fibrosis is a relatively common consequence of chronic liver diseases, especially…
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Relationship between the Fibrotest and portal hypertension in patients with liver disease.
…12%, moderate fibrosis 17%, cirrhosis 71%). There was a significant correlation between…
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Comparison of elastography, serum marker scores, and histology for the assessment of liver fibrosis in hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected patients in Burkina Faso.
Liver fibrosis (LF) must be assessed before talking treatment decisions in hepatitis…
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Diagnostic accuracy of the fibrotest in hemodialysis and renal transplant patients with chronic hepatitis C virus.
…The areas under the ROC curves for the diagnosis of significant fibrosis…
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Combination of blood tests for significant fibrosis and cirrhosis improves the assessment of liver-prognosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…A new combination of two complementary blood tests, one targeted for fibrosis…
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Comparison of transient elastography (FibroScan), FibroTest, APRI and two algorithms combining these non-invasive tests for liver fibrosis staging in HIV/HCV coinfected patients: ANRS CO13 HEPAVIH and FIBROSTIC collaboration.
### Objectives Combining noninvasive tests increases diagnostic accuracy for staging liver fibrosis in…
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Biochemical markers of liver fibrosis in patients infected by hepatitis C virus: longitudinal validation in a randomized trial.
A liver fibrosis index was recently prospectively validated in a cross-sectional…
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FibroTest is an independent predictor of virologic response in chronic hepatitis C patients retreated with pegylated interferon alfa-2b and ribavirin in the EPIC³ program.
…genotype 2/3 (odds ratio=2.9), fibrosis estimated with FT (4…
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Longitudinal assessment of histology surrogate markers (FibroTest-ActiTest) during lamivudine therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis B infection.
…At baseline, bridging fibrosis (METAVIR stages F2-F3-F4) was highly associated…
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Discordance between liver biopsy and FibroTest in assessing liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B.
…Discordances of at least two fibrosis stages between FT and LB were…
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Comparison of three algorithms of non-invasive markers of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…Sequential Algorithm for Fibrosis Evaluation (SAFE biopsy); Fibropaca algorithm; Leroy algorithm. ### Aim…
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Usefulness of acoustic radiation force impulse and fibrotest in liver fibrosis assessment after liver transplant.
…AUC for Fibrotest was 0.848 in discriminating patients with Ishak fibrosis…
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The non-invasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis.
…Liver fibrosis, as the last stage of numerous chronic liver diseases, is…
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Evolving practices of non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C in France: time for new guidelines?
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Impact of steatosis and inflammation definitions on the performance of NASH tests.
…including 15 cases with significant fibrosis. The simplified definition increased the κ…
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Validation of biochemical markers for the prediction of liver fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity in hemodialysis patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…Liver fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity was staged and graded according to the…
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Late presentation of chronic viral hepatitis for medical care: a consensus definition.
…B and C and significant fibrosis (≥ F3 assessed by either APRI score…
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Biomarkers as a first-line estimate of injury in chronic liver diseases: time for a moratorium on liver biopsy?
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Noninvasive prediction of fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
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Liver fibrosis in young Egyptian beta-thalassemia major patients: relation to hepatitis C virus and compliance with chelation.
### Background The main causes of liver fibrosis in transfusion-dependent thalassemia major…
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Interferon-γ-inducible protein-10 in chronic hepatitis C: Correlations with insulin resistance, histological features & sustained virological response.
…Higher values of IP-10 were associated with increasing stages of fibrosis…
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Utility of noninvasive methods for the characterization of nonalcoholic liver steatosis in the family practice. The "VARES" Italian multicenter study.
…13.1%) with likely advanced fibrosis and found that over 28% of…
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Validation of Ten Noninvasive Diagnostic Models for Prediction of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B.
### Background And Aims Noninvasive models have been developed for fibrosis assessment in…
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Serum biochemical markers accurately predict liver fibrosis in HIV and hepatitis C virus co-infected patients.
…hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related fibrosis, is invasive and prone to complications…
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FibroTest and FibroScan for the prediction of hepatitis C-related fibrosis: a systematic review of diagnostic test accuracy.
### Background The accurate diagnosis of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related fibrosis is…
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Study on noninvasive laboratory tests for fibrosis in chronic HBV infection and their evaluation.
…The five indices together were able to exclude fibrosis with a negative…
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Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir in patients with hepatitis C virus genotypes 1-6 and compensated cirrhosis or advanced fibrosis.
### Background & Aims Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection and advanced fibrosis…
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Biopsy as well as FibroTest/Fibrosure is suboptimal for discriminating intermediate fibrosis stages in patients with chronic hepatitis B.
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PNPLA3 polymorphism influences liver fibrosis in unselected patients with type 2 diabetes.
…The prevalence of steatosis and fibrosis was higher in minor G allele…
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Noninvasive markers of fibrosis and inflammation in clinical practice: prospective comparison with liver biopsy.
### Background The efficiency of transient elastography for the assessment of liver fibrosis…
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Biological markers of liver fibrosis and activity as non-invasive alternatives to liver biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis C and associated mixed cryoglobulinemia vasculitis.
…27% significant serum inflammation, 47% fibrosis (F2F3F4) on LB. The diagnostic value…
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Biochemical markers of liver fibrosis: a comparison with historical features in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Objectives Liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C is related to sex, age…
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Impact of hepatitis C and liver fibrosis on antiretroviral plasma drug concentrations in HIV-HCV co-infected patients: the HEPADOSE study.
…Among the 73 co-infected patients, 27 had a fibrosis score (Fibrotest…
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Biochemical markers of liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C virus infection: a prospective study. Key publication
…F0=no fibrosis and F1=portal fibrosis; and for clinically significant fibrosis…
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Real-time tissue elastography versus FibroScan for noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease.
### Purpose Transient elastography (FibroScan, [TE]) and serum fibrosis markers such as the…
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Hepatoprotective Effect of Antrodia cinnamomea Mycelium in Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.
### Objective Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has become a prominent liver disease in contemporary…
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Sequential algorithms combining non-invasive markers and biopsy for the assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B.
…However, significant fibrosis could not be excluded by any marker (NPV < 65…
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A simple biological index for detection of alcoholic liver disease in drinkers.
…and a test for liver fibrosis (serum apolipoprotein AI), was evaluated in…
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Intestinal failure-associated liver disease in patients with short bowel syndrome: Evaluation by transient elastography.
…evaluate dynamic changes of liver fibrosis and steatosis within 12 mo by…
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Optimal correlation between different instruments for Fibrotest-Actitest protein measurement in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…Such discordance is of little clinical consequence for liver fibrosis evaluation in…
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Complex non-invasive fibrosis models are more accurate than simple models in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
### Background And Aim Significant hepatic fibrosis is prognostic of liver morbidity and…
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Transient elastography alone and in combination with FibroTest® for the diagnosis of hepatic fibrosis in alcoholic liver disease.
### Background & Aims The reliability of transient elastography (TE) to assess liver fibrosis…
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Guidelines for the diagnosis of uncomplicated cirrhosis.
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SAFE biopsy: a validated method for large-scale staging of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Unlabelled The staging of liver fibrosis is pivotal for defining the prognosis…
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Non-invasive diagnostic assessment tools for the detection of liver fibrosis in patients with suspected alcohol-related liver disease: a systematic review and economic evaluation.
…tests for liver fibrosis [the Enhanced Liver Fibrosis (ELF™) test (Siemens Healthcare…
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Prospective comparison of transient elastography, Fibrotest, APRI, and liver biopsy for the assessment of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…The combined use of FibroScan and FibroTest to evaluate liver fibrosis could…
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Reproducibility of blood tests of liver fibrosis in clinical practice.
…of blood test for liver fibrosis: FibroMeter, Fibrotest, APRI and their composites…
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Noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with Fontan circulation using transient elastography and biochemical fibrosis markers.
…The noninvasive measurement of liver fibrosis using transient elastography and fibrosis marker…
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Biochemical markers of fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C: a comparison with prothrombin time, platelet count, and age-platelet index.
…severity of hepatitis C-related fibrosis. The objective of this study was…
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The use of enzyme results for liver fibrosis evaluation neccessitates standardization.
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Value of two noninvasive methods to detect progression of fibrosis among HCV carriers with normal aminotransferases.
…METAVIR fibrosis scores were analyzed in relationship to demographic, clinical, and viral…
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Stepwise combination algorithms of non-invasive markers to diagnose significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…standard for assessment of liver fibrosis. Non-invasive markers have been proposed…
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La Haute Autorite de Sante (HAS) in France— Diagnosis of uncomplicated cirrhosis (Accessed December 2011)
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Comparison of eight diagnostic algorithms for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C: new algorithms are more precise and entirely noninvasive.
### Unlabelled The sequential algorithm for fibrosis evaluation (SAFE) and the Bordeaux algorithm…
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A new combination of blood test and fibroscan for accurate non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis stages in chronic hepatitis C.
### Objectives Precise evaluation of the level of liver fibrosis is recommended in…
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Proficiency of transient elastography compared to liver biopsy for the assessment of fibrosis in HIV/HBV-coinfected patients.
Transient elastography (TE) is a noninvasive technique to evaluate liver fibrosis. We…
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Assessment of liver fibrosis with transient elastography and FibroTest in patients treated with methotrexate for chronic inflammatory diseases: a case-control study.
…Non-invasive methods for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis, such as transient…
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Optimized stepwise combination algorithms of non-invasive liver fibrosis scores including Hepascore in hepatitis C virus patients.
### Background Non-invasive liver fibrosis scores such as Hepascore (HS) have been…
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Non-invasive diagnosis of liver steatosis using controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) and transient elastography.
…CAP being implemented on FibroScan(®) (Echosens, Paris, France), both steatosis and fibrosis…
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Assessment of allograft fibrosis by transient elastography and noninvasive biomarker scoring systems in liver transplant patients.
…more complex scores in determining fibrosis stage in 157 patients transplanted for…
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Prospective analysis of discordant results between biochemical markers and biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…False positives of fibrosis staging (3.5%) were associated with fragmented biopsies…
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Comparison of liver biopsy and noninvasive techniques for liver fibrosis assessment in patients infected with HCV-genotype 4 in Egypt.
…gold standard to assess liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) and…
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Prospective comparison of six non-invasive scores for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background/Aims Non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis have recently been developed…
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Intra-laboratory analytical variability of biochemical markers of fibrosis (Fibrotest) and activity (Actitest) and reference ranges in healthy blood donors.
Combinations of tests comprising alpha2-macroglobulin, haptoglobin, apolipoprotein Al, gamma-glutamyltransferase, total…
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Implementing non-invasive markers for liver fibrosis in clinical practice.
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis progression in hepatitis C patients retreated for 96 weeks with antiviral therapy: a randomized study.
…The primary endpoint was improvement or stabilization of the Metavir fibrosis score…
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EASL clinical practical guidelines: management of alcoholic liver disease.
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The diagnostic value of biomarkers (AshTest) for the prediction of alcoholic steato-hepatitis in patients with chronic alcoholic liver disease.
### Background/Aims The aim was to identify a panel of biomarkers (AshTest…
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Hepatitis C guidance: AASLD-IDSA recommendations for testing, managing, and treating adults infected with hepatitis C virus. Key publication
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Prediction of liver histological lesions with biochemical markers in patients with chronic hepatitis B.
…The primary outcomes were A2-A3 activity and F2-F4 fibrosis (METAVIR…
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Impact of effective versus sham continuous positive airway pressure on liver injury in obstructive sleep apnoea: Data from randomized trials.
…reducing steatosis, NASH or liver fibrosis even after adjustment for gender, BMI…
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Biochemical surrogate markers of liver fibrosis and activity in a randomized trial of peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin.
Liver fibrosis and activity indexes were validated in patients infected by hepatitis…
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Comparison of test performance profile for blood tests of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…a function of fibrosis stages or diagnostic target (fibrosis cut-off). This…
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Assessment of asymptomatic liver fibrosis in alcoholic patients using fibroscan: prospective comparison with seven non-invasive laboratory tests. Key publication
### Background Systematic screening for liver fibrosis in heavy-drinking patients is a…
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Non-invasive diagnosis of large oesophageal varices with FibroTest in patients with cirrhosis: a preliminary retrospective study.
…As portal hypertension is related to liver fibrosis, this study aimed to…
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The diagnostic performance of a simplified blood test (SteatoTest-2) for the prediction of liver steatosis. Key publication
### Background Serum biomarkers of steatosis such as the SteatoTest are recommended for…
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Guidelines for the prevention, care and treatment of persons with chronic hepatitis B infection
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Higher serum testosterone is associated with increased risk of advanced hepatitis C-related liver disease in males.
…There were 105 cases with advanced fibrosis and 203 mild fibrosis controls…
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis: are we ready?
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Coffee and Caffeine Are Associated With Decreased Risk of Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis Among Patients With Hepatitis C.
…A higher percentage of controls (66.0%) than patients with advanced fibrosis…
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Non-invasive diagnosis and follow-up of portal hypertension.
Compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD) describes the spectrum of advanced fibrosis…
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Comparison of acoustic radiation force impulse imaging with transient elastography for the detection of complications in patients with cirrhosis.
…for the evaluation of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. ### Aim To determine the…
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Discordance between biochemical markers of liver activity and fibrosis (Actitest-Fibrotest) and liver biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…Discrepancies for fibrosis were observed in 18 patients with a higher score…
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Low 25-OH vitamin D serum levels correlate with severe fibrosis in HIV-HCV co-infected patients with chronic hepatitis.
…Patients with severe fibrosis (Metavir F3/F4) had lower serum 25(OH…
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Hepatic and renal end-organ damage in the Fontan circulation: A report from the Australian and New Zealand Fontan Registry.
…Features suggestive of hepatic fibrosis were observed on ultrasound in 87/143…
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The Association of Histologic and Noninvasive Tests With Adverse Clinical and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Patients With Advanced Fibrosis Due to Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.
### Background & Aim Fibrosis is an independent predictor of death in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis…
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Evaluation and improvement of a reliable diagnosis of cirrhosis by blood tests.
…diagnosis); significant fibrosis; and greater than or equal to 95% PPV: cirrhosis…
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Changes of non-invasive markers and FibroScan values during HCV treatment.
The recent advent of non-invasive methods for assessment of fibrosis allows…
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Evaluating the accuracy and increasing the reliable diagnosis rate of blood tests for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…liver fibrosis. ### Methods Five blood tests were compared with Metavir fibrosis (F…
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[The value of noninvasive serological markers in hepatitis B].
Bloodless methods (serological and imaging) for evaluating hepatic fibrosis constitute a good…
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Noninvasive Markers of Improvement of Liver Steatosis Achieved by Weight Reduction in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
### Unlabelled Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is strongly associated with insulin resistance…
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EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: management of hepatitis C virus infection.
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Management of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Call to Action. Review
Traditionally a disease of hepatologists, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has recently…
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Early detection in routine clinical practice of cirrhosis and oesophageal varices in chronic hepatitis C: comparison of transient elastography (FibroScan) with standard laboratory tests and non-invasive scores.
### Background/Aims To assess prospectively the accuracy of transient elastography (TE, FibroScan…
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[Alpha 2 macroglobulin immunoturbidimetric assays (DakoCytomation reagents) on Roche Diagnostic analysers (Modular P, Cobas Integra). Application to FibroTest-Actic-Test].
…Progresses in the comprehension of fibrosis dynamics and better treatment efficacy follow…
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Childhood/adult-onset lysosomal acid lipase deficiency: A serious metabolic and vascular phenotype beyond liver disease-four new pediatric cases.
…All children showed significant liver fibrosis (F3 [n = 3]; F2 [n = 1…
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