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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Noninvasive assessment of portal hypertension in patients with cirrhosis.
Severe portal hypertension is responsible for complications and death. Although measurement of…
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EASL clinical practice guidelines: Management of chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
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Non-invasive assessment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Clinical prediction rules and blood-based biomarkers.
The correct identification of patients at increased risk of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis…
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Intra-individual fasting versus postprandial variation of biochemical markers of liver fibrosis (FibroTest) and activity (ActiTest).
BACKGROUND: Biochemical marker combinations, including alpha2-macroglobulin, haptoglobin, apolipoprotein A1, gamma-glutamyl…
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EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: management of hepatitis C virus infection.
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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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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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Overview of the diagnostic value of biochemical markers of liver fibrosis (FibroTest, HCV FibroSure) and necrosis (ActiTest) in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
SUMMARY: BACKGROUND: Recent studies strongly suggest that due to the limitations and…
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Non-cirrhotic thrombocytopenic patients with hepatitis C virus: Characteristics and outcome of antiviral therapy.
### Background And Aim Thrombocytopenia is frequently observed in patients with chronic hepatitis…
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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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A randomized controlled trial of high-dose ursodesoxycholic acid for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
### Background & Aims Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a prevalent liver disease associated with…
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The diagnostic value of biomarkers (SteatoTest) for the prediction of liver steatosis. Key publication
### Background Biopsy is the usual gold standard for liver steatosis assessment. The…
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Noninvasive Assessment of Liver Fibrosis.
### Background The prognosis and management of chronic liver diseases greatly depend on…
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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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EASL clinical practical guidelines: management of alcoholic liver disease.
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Systematic review: Investigating the prognostic performance of four non-invasive tests in alcohol-related liver disease.
### Background And Aim Mortality of alcohol-related liver disease (ArLD) is increasing…
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Diagnostic value of FibroTest with normal serum aminotransferases.
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Update on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic hepatitis B: AASLD 2018 hepatitis B guidance.
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Management of the patient with SVR. Review
In the current era of therapy with direct-acting antiviral (DAAs) drugs…
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Transient elastography and other noninvasive tests to assess hepatic fibrosis in patients with viral hepatitis.
The limitations of liver biopsy (invasive procedure, sampling errors, inter-observer variability…
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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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Comparison of nine blood tests and transient elastography for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C: the ANRS HCEP-23 study.
### Background & Aims Blood tests and transient elastography (Fibroscan™) have been developed as…
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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).
…study was conducted in the Hepatology departments of 23 French university hospitals…
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A prospective assessment of the inter-laboratory variability of biochemical markers of fibrosis (FibroTest) and activity (ActiTest) in patients with chronic liver disease.
BACKGROUND: Biochemical markers for liver fibrosis (FibroTest) and necroinflammatory features (ActiTest) are…
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Stepwise combination algorithms of non-invasive markers to diagnose significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background/Aims In chronic hepatitis C, biopsy is the gold standard for…
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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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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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Non-invasive diagnosis and biomarkers in alcohol-related liver disease. Review
Even though alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) is a major cause of…
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Noninvasive evaluation of NAFLD.
A common clinical concern in patients with NAFLD is whether they have…
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Prediction of liver histological lesions with biochemical markers in patients with chronic hepatitis B.
### Background Aims Liver biopsy is the gold standard for assessing hepatitis B…
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An algorithm for the grading of activity in chronic hepatitis C. The METAVIR Cooperative Study Group.
Histological activity reflects the global assessment of basic necroinflammatory lesions and is…
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Slow regression of liver fibrosis presumed by repeated biomarkers after virological cure in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Background & Aims Chronic hepatitis C is both a virologic and fibrotic disease…
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Comparison of non-invasive liver fibrosis biomarkers in HIV/HCV co-infected patients: the fibrovic study--ANRS HC02.
### Background/Aims To compare non-invasive biological liver fibrosis scores, as alternatives…
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An evaluation of the potential cost-effectiveness of non-invasive testing strategies in the diagnosis of significant liver fibrosis.
### Background And Aim To assess the clinical and economic outcomes of non…
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FibroTest-FibroSURE: towards a universal biomarker of liver fibrosis?
Among the noninvasive alternatives to liver biopsy, several studies have demonstrated the…
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EASL-EASD-EASO Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
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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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Progression of liver fibrosis among injection drug users with chronic hepatitis C.
Although most hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections are acquired by injection drug…
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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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Biomarkers of liver fibrosis.
Liver biopsy, due to its limitations and risks, is an imperfect gold…
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Biomarkers for the prediction of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic alcoholic liver disease.
### Background & Aims The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic…
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A brief review on molecular, genetic and imaging techniques for HCV fibrosis evaluation.
### Background Chronic HCV is one of the major causes of morbidity and…
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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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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.
### Background HIV-monoinfected individuals are at high risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver…
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Blood tests to diagnose fibrosis or cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection: a systematic review.
### Background Many blood tests have been proposed as alternatives to liver biopsy…
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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.
### Background & Aims Time-dependent statistics have been used to assess liver fibrosis…
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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.
### Background & Aims Although methotrexate (MTX) is used in the effective treatment of…
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Comparison of test performance profile for blood tests of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background/Aims We evaluated the test performance profile (TPP) of blood tests…
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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.
### Background The efficacy of a maintenance therapy in non-responder patients with…
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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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Staging chronic hepatitis B into seven categories, defining inactive carriers and assessing treatment impact using a fibrosis biomarker (FibroTest®) and elastography (FibroScan®).
### Background & Aims The first aim was to extend the validation of FibroTest…
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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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Comparison of liver fibrosis blood tests developed for HCV with new specific tests in HIV/HCV co-infection.
### Background & Aims We compared 5 non-specific and 2 specific blood tests…
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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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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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Physicians' practices for diagnosing liver fibrosis in chronic liver diseases: a nationwide, Canadian survey.
### Objective To determine practices among physicians in Canada for the assessment of…
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Twenty-year protocol liver biopsies: Invasive but useful for the management of liver recipients.
### Background & Aims Most liver transplant centres have discontinued the practice of protocol…
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The use of enzyme results for liver fibrosis evaluation neccessitates standardization.
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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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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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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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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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Liver stiffness measurement in children using FibroScan: feasibility study and comparison with Fibrotest, aspartate transaminase to platelets ratio index, and liver biopsy.
### Objective Transient elastography (FibroScan) is a novel, noninvasive, rapid bedside method to…
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Performance of 11 biomarkers for liver fibrosis assessment in HIV/HBV co-infected patients.
### Background/Aims The aim of this study was to compare the performance…
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Non-invasive markers for hepatic fibrosis.
With great advancements in the therapeutic modalities used for the treatment of…
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Value of two noninvasive methods to detect progression of fibrosis among HCV carriers with normal aminotransferases.
The course of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection carriers with normal/near…
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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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Review article: the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease -- availability and accuracy of non-invasive methods.
### Background Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) encompasses a wide spectrum of…
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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.
### Objective Fibroscan (FS) is a reliable noninvasive method for the diagnosis of…
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Hepatitis C virus viremia and low platelet count: a study in a hepatitis B & C endemic area in Taiwan.
### Background & Aims Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has been shown to be…
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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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Liver fibrosis evaluation using real-time shear wave elastography: applicability and diagnostic performance using methods without a gold standard.
### Background & Aims Real-time shear wave elastography (SWE) is a new two…
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Prospective comparison of transient elastography, Fibrotest, APRI, and liver biopsy for the assessment of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background And Aims Transient elastography (FibroScan; Echosens, Paris, France) is a novel…
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Concordance of non-invasive serology-based scoring indices and transient elastography for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C.
Aim To assess concordance of eight frequently used serology-based scoring indices…
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Cost effectiveness of fibrosis assessment prior to treatment for chronic hepatitis C patients.
### Background And Aims Chronic hepatitis C (HCV) is a liver disease affecting…
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Factors to improve the management of hepatitis C in drug users: an observational study in an addiction centre.
Barriers to management of HCV in injection drug users are related to…
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Liver biopsy analysis has a low level of performance for diagnosis of intermediate stages of fibrosis.
### Background & Aims There is controversy about the performance of noninvasive tests such…
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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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Noninvasive prediction of fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
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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 evaluation of the liver disease severity in children with chronic viral hepatitis using FibroTest and ActiTest - comparison with histopathological assessment.
### Aim Of The Study Was to evaluate liver disease severity in children…
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Non-invasive tests for fibrosis and liver stiffness predict 5-year survival of patients chronically infected with hepatitis B virus.
### Background Liver stiffness and non-invasive tests predict overall survival in chronic…
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Liver stiffness measurement and biochemical markers in Senegalese chronic hepatitis B patients with normal ALT and high viral load.
### Background And Aims Despite the high prevalence of chronic hepatitis B (CHB…
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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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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.
### Background The prediction of fibrosis is an essential part of the assessment…
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Noninvasive Indirect Markers of Liver Fibrosis in Alcoholics.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic values of…
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Fibroscan and FibroTest/FibroMax to assess liver fibrosis/cirrhosis in patients with chronic HBV and HCV infection in Georgia.
…These patients were investigated at the Georgian-French Joint Hepatology Clinic "Hepa…
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Evaluation of FibroTest-ActiTest in children with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
FibroTest-ActiTest (FT-AT) has been validated in adults with chronic hepatitis…
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Assessment of allograft fibrosis by transient elastography and noninvasive biomarker scoring systems in liver transplant patients.
### Background This prospective, monocentric study was designed to assess the efficacy of…
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Prospective analysis of discordant results between biochemical markers and biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Background The FibroTest and ActiTest are noninvasive biochemical markers of liver injury…
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Noninvasive diagnosis in alcohol-related liver disease. Review
### Background Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) represents a major cause of death…
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Higher serum testosterone is associated with increased risk of advanced hepatitis C-related liver disease in males.
### Unlabelled Males have strikingly increased risk of advanced liver disease. However, the…
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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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Performance of noninvasive markers for liver fibrosis is reduced in chronic hepatitis C with normal transaminases.
In chronic hepatitis C, biopsy is the gold standard for assessment of…
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Serum biochemical markers accurately predict liver fibrosis in HIV and hepatitis C virus co-infected patients.
### Objective Liver biopsy, the gold standard for assessing hepatitis C virus (HCV…
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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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Comparison of liver biopsy and noninvasive techniques for liver fibrosis assessment in patients infected with HCV-genotype 4 in Egypt.
In Egypt, as elsewhere, liver biopsy (LB) remains the gold standard to…
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Is it possible to predict HCV-related liver cirrhosis non-invasively through routine laboratory parameters?
It is estimated that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects chronically about 160…
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Combination of blood tests for significant fibrosis and cirrhosis improves the assessment of liver-prognosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background Recent longitudinal studies have emphasised the prognostic value of noninvasive tests…
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The FibroTest value in discriminating between insignificant and significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C patients. The Romanian experience.
### Aim To assess the diagnostic value of FibroTest to discriminate between insignificant…
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First-line assessment of patients with chronic liver disease with non-invasive techniques and without recourse to liver biopsy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Biochemical markers of fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C: a comparison with prothrombin time, platelet count, and age-platelet index.
As an alternative to liver biopsy, an index of five biochemical markers…
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Diagnostic algorithms for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C: are they ready to avoid liver biopsy?
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Comparative assessment of liver fibrosis by computerized morphometry in naïve patients with chronic hepatitis B and C.
### Background Liver fibrosis, now assessed by liver biopsy or using non-invasive…
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Guidelines for the prevention, care and treatment of persons with chronic hepatitis B infection
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Prognostic value of the combined use of transient elastography and fibrotest in patients with chronic hepatitis B.
### Background & Aims Liver stiffness (LS) measurement using transient elastography and the FibroTest…
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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.
### Objective And Methods We assessed the reliability of non-invasive biological scoring…
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with alcoholic liver disease.
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) consists of a broad spectrum of disorders, ranging…
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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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Combination of fibrosis tests: sequential or synchronous?
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Comparison of three algorithms of non-invasive markers of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background Preliminary data suggest that performance of non-invasive markers for liver…
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The accuracy of the FIB-4 index for the diagnosis of mild fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B.
### Background The Fib-4 index is a simple and inexpensive biomarker to…
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FIB-4: a simple, inexpensive and accurate marker of fibrosis in HCV-infected patients.
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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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Noninvasive methods, including transient elastography, for the detection of liver disease in adults with cystic fibrosis.
### Background Liver disease is the third leading cause of mortality in patients…
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Evaluating the accuracy and increasing the reliable diagnosis rate of blood tests for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background The reliable diagnosis rate of diagnostic tests is provided by their…
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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.
### Background/Aims The hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is important cause of…
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The new paradigm of hepatitis C therapy: integration of oral therapies into best practices.
Emerging data indicate that all-oral antiviral treatments for chronic hepatitis C…
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Coffee and Caffeine Are Associated With Decreased Risk of Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis Among Patients With Hepatitis C.
### Background & Aims Coffee or caffeine has been proposed to protect against hepatic…
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Clinical applicability of non-invasive markers for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C (Letter)
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Sequential algorithms combining non-invasive markers and biopsy for the assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B.
### Aim To assess the performance of several non-invasive markers and of…
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Personalized management of cirrhosis by non-invasive tests of liver fibrosis.
Owing to the high prevalence of various chronic liver diseases, cirrhosis is…
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The combination of a blood test and Fibroscan improves the non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis.
### Background And Aims Blood tests and liver stiffness evaluation (LSE) by ultrasonographic…
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Serum bile acid levels as a predictor for the severity of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
Serum bile acids (SBAs) are commonly elevated in cholestatic liver diseases, but…
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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 ?".
### Background The aspartate aminotransferase platelet ratio index (APRI) is a validated, non…
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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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Role of leisure-time physical activity in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a population-based study.
### Unlabelled Physical activity (PA) is commonly recommended for nonalchoholic fatty liver disease…
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis: Between prediction/prevention of outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
The assessment of the fibrotic evolution of chronic hepatitis has always been…
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Non-invasive diagnosis of liver steatosis using controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) and transient elastography.
### Introduction Recently, a study showed that Controlled Attenuation Parameter (CAP), evaluated with…
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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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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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Intestinal failure-associated liver disease in patients with short bowel syndrome: Evaluation by transient elastography.
### Objective Patients with short bowel syndrome (SBS) receiving long-term parenteral nutrition…
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Assessment of liver fibrosis in transplant recipients with recurrent HCV infection: usefulness of transient elastography.
### Background Progression of recurrent hepatitis C is accelerated in liver transplant recipients…
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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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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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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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Prospective noninvasive analysis of hepatic fibrosis in patients with Crohn's disease: correlation of transient elastography and laboratory-based markers.
### Background And Aims Hepatobiliary disorders, associated either with extraintestinal manifestations or with…
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Natural history of liver fibrosis progression in patients with chronic hepatitis C. The OBSVIRC, METAVIR, CLINIVIR, and DOSVIRC groups.
### Background Our aim was to assess the natural history of liver fibrosis…
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The product of triglycerides and glucose as biomarker for screening simple steatosis and NASH in asymptomatic women.
### Unlabelled Introduction and aim. Given that early identification of non-alcoholic fatty…
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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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Contribution of the ELFG test in algorithms of non-invasive markers towards the diagnosis of significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background And Aims We aimed to determine the best algorithms for the…
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Assessment of Selected Parameters of Liver Fibrosis and Inflammation in Patients with Diagnosed Cystic Fibrosis.
Changes in the liver and bile ducts observed in patients diagnosed with…
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Diagnostic performance of a new noninvasive test for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis using a simplified histological reference.
### Background One of the unmet needs in patients with metabolic risks is…
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Assessment of liver fibrosis: noninvasive means.
Liver biopsy, owing to its limitations and risks, is an imperfect gold…
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Liver fibrosis in adults with Fontan palliation: Do common screening studies predict disease severity?
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Comparison of Fibrotest and PGAA for the diagnosis of fibrosis stage in patients with alcoholic liver disease.
### Background And Aims The PGAA index was one of the first composite…
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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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Applicability and variability of liver stiffness measurements according to probe position.
### Aim To investigate the liver stiffness measurement (LSM) applicability and variability with…
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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.
### Background FibroTest(®) (FT), and liver stiffness measurement (LSM) are the most validated…
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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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External validation of LCR1-LCR2, a multivariable HCC risk calculator, in patients with chronic HCV.
### Background & Aims The Liver Cancer Risk test algorithm (LCR1-LCR2) is a…
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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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Prospective validation of ELF test in comparison with Fibroscan and FibroTest to predict liver fibrosis in Asian subjects with chronic hepatitis B.
### Background And Aims Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) and FibroTest (FT) are frequently…
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Transient elastography and biomarkers for liver fibrosis assessment and follow-up of inactive hepatitis B carriers.
### Background Non invasive methods for fibrosis evaluation remain to be validated longitudinally…
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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.
### Background And Aims We aimed to determine the best algorithms for the…
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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.
### Background & Aims Alcohol is the leading cause of cirrhosis and liver-related…
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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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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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Fibrosis assessment in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major cause of liver…
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Performance of liver biomarkers, in patients at risk of nonalcoholic steato-hepatitis, according to presence of type-2 diabetes.
### Objective There is a controversy about the performance of blood tests for…
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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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Comparison of liver stiffness, fibrotest and liver biopsy for assessment of liver fibrosis in kidney-transplant patients with chronic viral hepatitis.
To assess the accuracy of the noninvasive tools, fibrotest (FT) and liver…
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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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Fibrotest-Actitest: the biochemical marker of liver fibrosis--the Israeli experience.
### Background The Fibrotest-Actitest is a six-parameter scoring system that allows…
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Impact of steatosis and inflammation definitions on the performance of NASH tests.
### Background And Aim One of the unmet needs in subjects with metabolic…
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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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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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Reproducibility of blood tests of liver fibrosis in clinical practice.
### Objectives To evaluate the inter-laboratory reproducibility of blood test for liver…
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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.
### Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic hepatitis…
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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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Stage of liver fibrosis in patients with congenital bleeding disorders and infected with hepatitis C virus.
### Introduction Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the major cause of chronic liver…
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Diagnostic performance of FibroTest-ActiTest, transient elastography, and the fibrosis-4 index in patients with autoimmune hepatitis using histological reference.
### Background Noninvasive tests are crucial for the management and follow-up of…
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Prognostic value of liver fibrosis and steatosis biomarkers in type-2 diabetes and dyslipidaemia.
### Background In cardiometabolic disorders, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is frequent and…
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Assessment of liver fibrosis and steatosis in PBC with FibroScan, MRI, MR-spectroscopy, and serum markers.
### Background In recent years noninvasive methods have been evaluated for the assessment…
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Non-invasive diagnosis and follow-up of chronic infection with Hepatitis C Virus.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major cause of chronic liver…
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Study on noninvasive laboratory tests for fibrosis in chronic HBV infection and their evaluation.
### Background Noninvasive laboratory tests have been widely used in the diagnosis of…
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Toward non-invasive assessment strategies in autoimmune hepatitis.
In this article, we comment on the article by Peta _et al…
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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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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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Validation of noninvasive biomarkers (FibroTest, SteatoTest, and NashTest) for prediction of liver injury in patients with morbid obesity.
### Background Liver biopsy is considered as the gold standard for assessing nonalcoholic…
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Comparison of FibroTest-ActiTest with histopathology in demonstrating fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity in chronic hepatitis B and C.
### Aims FibroTest and ActiTest are noninvasive tests used in determining the level…
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The diagnostic value of combining carbohydrate-deficient transferrin, fibrosis, and steatosis biomarkers for the prediction of excessive alcohol consumption.
### Background And Aim The validity of biomarkers of excessive alcohol drinking (EAD…
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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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Liver fibrosis markers in alcoholic liver disease.
Alcohol is one of the main factors of liver damage. The evaluation…
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Interferon-γ-inducible protein-10 in chronic hepatitis C: Correlations with insulin resistance, histological features & sustained virological response.
### Background & Objectives One of the multiple factors contributing to virological response in…
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Screening for liver fibrosis by using FibroScan(®) and FibroTest in patients with diabetes.
### Background Patients with diabetes are at risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease…
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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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Methodological aspects of the interpretation of non-invasive biomarkers of liver fibrosis: a 2008 update. Key publication
This review summarizes the methodological aspects of the interpretation of non-invasive…
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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.
### Background One of the unmet needs in patients with type 2 diabetes…
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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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The predictive value of Fibrotest vs. APRI for the diagnosis of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
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FibroMAX: towards a new universal biomarker of liver disease?
Among the noninvasive alternatives to liver biopsy, several studies have demonstrated the…
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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.
### Introduction A prognostic model to predict liver severity in people with metabolic…
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Appropriate evidence-based data overviews demonstrate the diagnostic and prognostic performances of FibroTest in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
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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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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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Hepatitis C in 6,865 patients 65 yr or older: a severe and neglected curable disease?
### Background Few data are available on chronic hepatitis C (CHC) in elderly…
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FibroScan and FibroTest to assess liver fibrosis in HCV with normal aminotransferases.
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Screening studies of transient elastography and FibroTest in the general population - Authors' reply.
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Non-invasive biomarkers of liver fibrosis in haemophilia patients with hepatitis C: can you avoid liver biopsy?
Liver biopsy remains the gold standard for the evaluation of fibrosis despite…
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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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Noninvasive biomarkers FibroTest and ActiTest versus liver biopsy in chronic hepatitis C patients: the Middle East experience.
### Background The aim of this study was to compare noninvasive biomarkers, FibroTest…
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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.
The aim of this study was to investigate whether the non-invasive…
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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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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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Prediction for steatosis in type-2 diabetes: clinico-biological markers versus 1H-MR spectroscopy.
### Objectives The SteatoTest, fatty liver index (FLI) and hepatic steatosis index (HSI…
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Finasteride and methadone use and risk of advanced hepatitis C related liver disease.
### Aim We evaluated the association between two medications that alter bioavailable androgen…
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Screening for liver fibrosis by using a noninvasive biomarker in patients with diabetes.
### Background & Aims Patients with diabetes are at risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver…
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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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Comparison of non-invasive fibrosis markers and classical liver biopsy in chronic hepatitis C.
The aim of this study was to compare the results of nine…
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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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The risk of multiplying diagnostic combinations in the absence of a perfect gold standard for a fibrosis test.
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Predicting significant fibrosis in hepatitis C patients in Luxembourg using serological markers.
### Objective The aim of our study was to assess the diagnostic performance…
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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 aim was to assess the utility of FibroTest-ActiTest (FT-AT…
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Assessment of liver fibrosis and associated risk factors in HIV-infected individuals using transient elastography and serum biomarkers.
### Background Liver fibrosis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals is mostly…
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Implementing non-invasive markers for liver fibrosis in clinical practice.
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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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Altered serum N-glycomics in chronic hepatitis B patients.
### Background We previously reported on serum N-glycans as markers for the…
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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.
### Background Due to common routes of transmission, HIV and HBV are frequently…
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Biochemical markers of liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C virus infection: a prospective study. Key publication
### Background Liver biopsy is thought mandatory for management of patients with hepatitis…
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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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Analytical variability of the Fibrotest proteins.
### Objectives The analytical variability of the Fibrotest (FT) parameters raises the issue…
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Noninvasive diagnosis of liver cirrhosis using DNA sequencer-based total serum protein glycomics.
We applied our 'clinical glycomics' technology, based on DNA sequencer/fragment analyzers…
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Discordance between biochemical markers of liver activity and fibrosis (Actitest-Fibrotest) and liver biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Introduction The purpose of this clinical trial was to determine in routine…
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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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Impact of quality control accepted inter-laboratory variations on calculated Fibrotest/Actitest scores for the non-invasive biochemical assessment of liver fibrosis.
### Introduction Non-invasive, i.e. serum-based assessment of liver fibrosis is…
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Noninvasive Markers of Hepatic Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis B.
A serum biomarker (FibroTest; Biopredictive, Paris, France; FibroSure; LabCorp, Burlington, USA) and…
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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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Knowledge and practice regarding the German and the EASL-EASD-EASO NAFLD-guidelines among members of the German Obesity Society.
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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.
### Introduction Long-term tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) use has been associated with…
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Relationship between the Fibrotest and portal hypertension in patients with liver disease.
### Background The best technique to estimate portal hypertension (PHT) is to measure…
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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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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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Comparison of accuracy of fibrosis degree classifications by liver biopsy and non-invasive tests in chronic hepatitis C.
### Background Non-invasive tests have been constructed and evaluated mainly for binary…
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PNPLA3 polymorphism influences liver fibrosis in unselected patients with type 2 diabetes.
### Context Recently, it has been shown that an allele in the adiponutrin…
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Comparison of acoustic radiation force impulse imaging with transient elastography for the detection of complications in patients with cirrhosis.
### Background Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging is a new non-invasive…
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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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Non-invasive diagnosis of large oesophageal varices with FibroTest in patients with cirrhosis: a preliminary retrospective study.
### Background And Aims Primary prevention of variceal bleeding with beta-blockers improves…
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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.
### Purpose To compare the diagnostic performance of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI…
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Noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with Fontan circulation using transient elastography and biochemical fibrosis markers.
### Objective Studies have shown that patients with failing Fontan circulation may develop…
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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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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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Liver biopsy: the best standard...when everything else fails.
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Guidelines for the screening, care and treatment of persons with hepatitis C infection Key publication
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Spleen stiffness measurement by transient elastography to diagnose portal hypertension in children.
### Background The development of esophageal varices is a late complication of chronic…
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Noninvasive, Blood-Based Biomarkers as Screening Tools for Hepatic Fibrosis in People With Type 2 Diabetes.
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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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[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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Hepatitis B: are non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis reliable?
Liver biopsy, which was traditionally considered to be the gold standard for…
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FIB-4: an inexpensive and accurate marker of fibrosis in HCV infection. comparison with liver biopsy and fibrotest.
### Unlabelled To optimize the management of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus…
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Real-world efficacy and safety of ombitasvir, paritaprevir/r+dasabuvir+ribavirin in genotype 1b patients with hepatitis C virus cirrhosis.
### Background Direct antiviral agents (DAA) showed very good results in terms of…
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, nocturnal hypoxia, and endothelial function in patients with sleep apnea.
### Background Nocturnal hypoxia, the hallmark of OSA, is a potential contributing factor…
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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
### Background No blood test has been shown to be effective in the…
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Non-invasive diagnosis of steatosis, inflammatory changes and liver fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases. Pilot study.
### Introduction Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common…
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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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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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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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Biomarkers for liver disease in urea cycle disorders.
### Background Urea cycle disorders (UCDs) are among the most common inborn errors…
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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.
…who were referred to our hepatology clinic for assessment of fitness for…
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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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Coffee consumption and nonalcoholic fatty liver onset: a prospective study in the general population.
Retrospective studies suggest that coffee consumption may exert beneficial effects in patients…
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Usefulness of noninvasive tests in nodular regenerative hyperplasia of the liver.
### Background The only way to diagnose nodular regenerative hyperplasia (NRH) is liver…
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Predictive value of biomarkers of hepatic fibrosis in adult Fontan patients.
### Background Hepatic fibrosis is highly prevalent in individuals with Fontan circulation. FibroSure…
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Successful treatment with telaprevir-based regimens for chronic hepatitis C results in significant improvements to serum markers of liver fibrosis.
Patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) have differing levels of liver…
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Biomarkers of liver injury for hepatitis clinical trials: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.
### Background Liver biopsy and virological end points are standard references for assessing…
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Racial differences in the association between adiposity measures and the risk of hepatitis C-related liver disease.
### Background African Americans have lower reported likelihood of hepatitis C virus-related…
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The non-invasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis.
Hepatic disease accounts for approximately 2 million deaths/year worldwide. Liver fibrosis…
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Systematic review with meta-analysis: direct comparisons of biomarkers for the diagnosis of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C and B.
### Background Blood tests and transient elastography (TE), proposed as alternatives to biopsy…
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Performance of biomarkers FibroTest, ActiTest, SteatoTest, and NashTest in patients with severe obesity: meta analysis of individual patient data.
### Background Liver biopsy is considered as the gold standard for assessing non…
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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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A prospective assessment of an 'a la carte' regimen of PEG-interferon alpha2b and ribavirin combination in patients with chronic hepatitis C using biochemical markers.
In therapy with standard interferon and ribavirin, five independent risk factors (RF…
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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.
As of 2016, there is no evidence-based pathway to stratify the…
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Awareness of the severity of liver disease re-examined using software-combined biomarkers of liver fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity.
### Background Effective antiviral treatment (direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs)), the requirement for…
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Diagnostic performance of FibroTest, SteatoTest and ActiTest in patients with NAFLD using the SAF score as histological reference.
### Background Blood tests of liver injury are less well validated in non…
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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.
### Background Previous research has shown variation in the effects of patient factors…
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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.
### Background Although the FibroTest has been validated as a biomarker to determine…
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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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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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External Validation of LCR1-LCR2, a Multivariable Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk Calculator, in a Multiethnic Cohort of Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B.
### Background And Aims The liver cancer risk test (LCR1-LCR2) is a…
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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
### Background The combination of transaminases (ALT), biopsy, HBeAg and viral load have…
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Profiles of liver fibrosis evolution during long-term tenofovir treatment in HIV-positive patients coinfected with hepatitis B.
### Background & Aims Data on liver fibrosis evolution and its involvement in liver…
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Role of Non-hepatic Medical Comorbidity and Functional Limitations in Predicting Mortality in Patients with HCV.
### Background Medical comorbidities and functional status limitations are determinants of mortality in…
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The impact of bariatric surgery on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease as measured using non-invasive tests.
### Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is common in bariatric surgery candidates…
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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
### Background Liver biopsy is considered as the gold standard for assessing non…
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Non-invasive diagnosis of hepatitis B virus-related cirrhosis.
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection is a major public health problem associated…
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Evaluation and improvement of a reliable diagnosis of cirrhosis by blood tests.
### Objective To evaluate the rates of reliable diagnosis of cirrhosis by two…
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Performance of the FibroTest cannot be accurately estimated in nine paediatric patients with advanced fibrosis.
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Validation of the FibroTest biochemical markers score in assessing liver fibrosis in hepatitis C patients.
### Background Determining the stage of fibrosis by liver biopsy is important in…
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is independently linked to cardiometabolic morbidity and…
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis: are we ready?
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Optimal correlation between different instruments for Fibrotest-Actitest protein measurement in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Objectives Combination of alpha 2-macroglobulin, haptoglobin, apolipoprotein-A1, gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase…
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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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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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Variability of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves in the diagnostic evaluation of liver fibrosis markers: impact of biopsy length and fragmentation.
### Background The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is widely…
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HIV-positive men who have sex with men are at high risk of development of significant liver fibrosis after an episode of acute hepatitis C.
Acute hepatitis C virus infection remains a major health concern in human…
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Potent viral suppression and improvements in alpha-fetoprotein and measures of fibrosis in Japanese patients receiving a daclatasvir/asunaprevir/beclabuvir fixed-dose combination for the treatment of HCV genotype-1 infection.
### Background In the UNITY-3 study, 96% sustained virologic response (SVR12) rate…
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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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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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Non-invasive measurement of liver and pancreas fibrosis in patients with cystic fibrosis.
…While transient elastography (TE) is an established elastography method in hepatology centers…
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Utility of noninvasive methods for the characterization of nonalcoholic liver steatosis in the family practice. The "VARES" Italian multicenter study.
The diagnostic utilities of ultrasonography (US), fatty liver index (FLI) and an…
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Effective use of FibroTest to generate decision trees in hepatitis C.
### Aim To assess the usefulness of FibroTest to forecast scores by constructing…
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Retracted: Executive functions in chronic hepatitis C virus infected elderly patients.
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Discordance between liver biopsy and FibroTest in assessing liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B.
### Background And Aims The FibroTest (FT) demonstrated excellent diagnostic performance in the…
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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).
**Background/Objectives:** Bariatric surgery (BS), drugs approved for type-2-diabetes (T2D…
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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.
### Background Excessive alcohol consumption may lead to the development of alcohol-related…
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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.
### Background And Aims Real-time shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) is a…
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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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Non-invasive Investigations for the Diagnosis of Fontan-Associated Liver Disease in Pediatric and Adult Fontan Patients.
Fontan-associated liver disease (FALD) is a serious complication related to the…
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Validation of biochemical markers for the prediction of liver fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity in hemodialysis patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Background Liver biopsy is an imperfect gold standard for assessing the disease…
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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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Evolution of biomarkers of liver fibrosis and liver insufficiency in hepatitis C virus-infected patients treated with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin and rituximab.
Therapeutic options in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related vasculitis may target the…
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The Distribution of Liver Steatosis, Fibrosis, Steatohepatitis and Inflammation Activity in Alcoholics According to FibroMax Test.
### Background The diagnosis of alcoholic liver diseases is based on the history…
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The use of transient elastography and FibroTest for monitoring hepatotoxicity in patients receiving methotrexate for psoriasis.
### Importance There is a need for noninvasive tools to monitor hepatotoxicity in…
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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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[SWE elastography in assessment of liver fibrosis].
Liver fibrosis is a relatively common consequence of chronic liver diseases, especially…
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Commentary: prognostication of chronic hepatitis B - are Fibrotest and Fibroscan the final answers? Authors' reply.
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Cost effectiveness of pegylated interferon alpha 2b and ribavirin combination in chronic hepatitis C.
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The Diagnostic Value of FibroTest and Hepascore as Non-Invasive Markers of Liver Fibrosis in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC).
The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic usefulness of…
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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 hepatitis C and liver fibrosis on antiretroviral plasma drug concentrations in HIV-HCV co-infected patients: the HEPADOSE study.
### Objectives To compare plasma antiretroviral concentrations in HIV-HCV co-infected and…
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Improved inflammatory activity with peginterferon alfa-2b maintenance therapy in non-cirrhotic prior non-responders: a randomized study.
### Background & Aims Therapeutic options for patients failing hepatitis C retreatment are limited…
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External validation of FibroIndex.
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FibroTest has better diagnostic and prognostic values than the aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
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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.
In patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with or without…
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LCR1 and LCR2, two multi-analyte blood tests to assess liver cancer risk in patients without or with cirrhosis.
### Background No blood test has been shown to be effective in the…
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Low 25-OH vitamin D serum levels correlate with severe fibrosis in HIV-HCV co-infected patients with chronic hepatitis.
### Background & Aims Recent findings in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-monoinfected patients have…
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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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Discovery of novel biomarker candidates for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C patients: a preliminary study.
### Background Liver biopsy is the reference standard for assessing liver fibrosis and…
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Screening studies of transient elastography and FibroTest in the general population.
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Poynard T, Ratziu V, Imbert-Bismut F, Munteanu M
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FibroTest is effective in patients with normal transaminases, when accuracy is standardized on fibrosis stage prevalence.
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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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The effectiveness of noninvasive biomarkers to predict hepatitis B-related significant fibrosis and cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy.
Noninvasive biomarkers have been developed to predict hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related…
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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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Severity of Fontan-Associated Liver Disease Correlates with Fontan Hemodynamics.
Fontan-palliated patients are at risk for the development of Fontan-associated…
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Blood tests to diagnose fibrosis or cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
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FibroStic: a large confirmatory study for non-invasive biomarkers accuracy, if correctly interpreted.
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Silymarin in non alcoholic fatty liver disease.
### Aim This study was undertaken to evaluate the hepatic effects of silybum…
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Validation of the Performance of A1HPV6, a Triage Blood Test for the Early Diagnosis and Prognosis of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
### Background And Aims Apolipoprotein A1 (A1) and haptoglobin (HP) serum levels are…
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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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Prevalence of liver cirrhosis in individuals with hepatitis B virus infection in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Review
### Background & Aims Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection accounts for 30%-50…
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[Alpha 2 macroglobulin immunoturbidimetric assays (DakoCytomation reagents) on Roche Diagnostic analysers (Modular P, Cobas Integra). Application to FibroTest-Actic-Test].
### Background Alpha2Macroglobulin (A2M) measure showed a revival since it was introduced into…
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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.
### Unlabelled The association of NAFLD with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) has been…
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Hepatic and renal end-organ damage in the Fontan circulation: A report from the Australian and New Zealand Fontan Registry.
### Background Hepatic and renal dysfunction have been observed in survivors of the…
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Childhood/adult-onset lysosomal acid lipase deficiency: A serious metabolic and vascular phenotype beyond liver disease-four new pediatric cases.
### Background The childhood/adult-onset lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LALD; late-onset…
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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.
### Background Studies have demonstrated that coronary artery calcification on one hand and…
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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.
### Background Studies have demonstrated that both lower limb arterial calcification and metabolic…
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Diagnostic accuracy of the fibrotest in hemodialysis and renal transplant patients with chronic hepatitis C virus.
### Background An accurate diagnosis of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver lesions…
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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.
### Aims To evaluate the application of the recently proposed recommendations by the…
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Correlation between liver biopsy and fibrotest in the evaluation of hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
### Aim To assess the diagnostic value of Fibrotest in comparison with liver…
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Performance of serum apolipoprotein-A1 as a sentinel of Covid-19. Key publication
### Background Since 1920, a decrease in serum cholesterol has been identified as…
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Intermethod calibration of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) results: application to Fibrotest and Actitest scores.
Two multi-component scores (Fibrotest and Actitest) have been proposed to evaluate…
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Usefulness of acoustic radiation force impulse and fibrotest in liver fibrosis assessment after liver transplant.
### Unlabelled Background and rationale. Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) is a non…
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Ministère des Affaires Sociales et de la Santé Key publication
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Noninvasive Testing for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Hepatic Fibrosis in Patients With Psoriasis Receiving Long-term Methotrexate Sodium Therapy.
### Importance The long-term implications of hepatotoxic effects in patients with psoriasis…
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Impact of effective versus sham continuous positive airway pressure on liver injury in obstructive sleep apnoea: Data from randomized trials.
### Background And Objective Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) could be an independent risk…
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Acoustic radiation force imaging sonoelastography for noninvasive staging of liver fibrosis.
### Aim To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI…
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Molecular characteristics of Hepatitis B and chronic liver disease in a cohort of HB carriers from Bamako, Mali.
### Background Hepatitis B (HB) infection is common in Mali. However, there is…
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Progression of Liver Fibrosis in HIV/HCV Co-Infection: A Comparison between Non-Invasive Assessment Methods and Liver Biopsy.
### Objectives To evaluate the diagnostic performance of seven non-invasive tests (NITs…
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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.
**Background/Objectives**: Prior research has identified a significant association between heart disease…
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[Biomarkers for liver fibrosis: advances, advantages and disadvantages].
Liver cirrhosis in Mexico is one of the most important causes of…
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