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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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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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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A new combination of blood test and fibroscan for accurate non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis stages in chronic hepatitis C.
…tests and Fibroscan are now widely used for the non-invasive diagnosis…
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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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Toward non-invasive assessment strategies in autoimmune hepatitis.
…falsely elevated results with non-invasive tests. A Bayesian latent class model…
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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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Diagnostic accuracy of FibroScan and comparison to liver fibrosis biomarkers in chronic viral hepatitis: a multicenter prospective study (the FIBROSTIC study).
### Background & Aims The diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive liver fibrosis tests that…
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with alcoholic liver disease.
…Existing data suggest that the use of non-invasive tests could be…
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Comparison of non-invasive assessment to diagnose liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B and C patients.
…We compared seven non-invasive tests, separately and in combination, in chronic…
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The non-invasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis.
…serologic tests and imaging techniques. This narrative review presents the non-invasive…
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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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Assessment of asymptomatic liver fibrosis in alcoholic patients using fibroscan: prospective comparison with seven non-invasive laboratory tests. Key publication
…of Fibroscan with seven non-invasive laboratory tests. ### Methods One hundred and…
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Usefulness of acoustic radiation force impulse and fibrotest in liver fibrosis assessment after liver transplant.
…tests measurements needed to calculate several non-invasive liver fibrosis tests. ### Results…
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The combination of a blood test and Fibroscan improves the non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis.
…improves the accuracy of the non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis and…
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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.
…Non-invasive tests (NITs) have a number of advantages over the traditional…
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Clinical applicability of non-invasive markers for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C (Letter)
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis: Between prediction/prevention of outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
…than other, more expensive non-invasive tests, such as elastography or FibroTest.
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Fibrosis assessment in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.
…blood- and imaging-based non-invasive tests, reviewing their diagnostic performance and…
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Non-invasive markers for hepatic fibrosis.
…The rate of adoption of non-invasive diagnostic tests for liver fibrosis…
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Non-invasive diagnosis of steatosis, inflammatory changes and liver fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases. Pilot study.
…abdominal ultrasound examination), using non-invasive tests: SteatoTest, ActiTest and FibroTest. We…
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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.
…as compared with currently available non-invasive methods (AST/ALT ratio (AAR…
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An evaluation of the potential cost-effectiveness of non-invasive testing strategies in the diagnosis of significant liver fibrosis.
…clinical and economic outcomes of non-invasive testing strategies in the diagnosis…
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Non-invasive diagnosis and biomarkers in alcohol-related liver disease. Review
…During the last decade, non-invasive tests have been developed to estimate…
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Concordance of non-invasive serology-based scoring indices and transient elastography for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…eight non-invasive indices. The diagnostic performance of these tests was assessed…
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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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Use of Non-invasive Testing to Stage Liver Fibrosis in Patients with HIV.
…Multiple non-invasive methods of liver fibrosis assessment have been developed, but…
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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.
…We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of non-invasive serum biomarkers…
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The Diagnostic Value of FibroTest and Hepascore as Non-Invasive Markers of Liver Fibrosis in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC).
…the diagnostic usefulness of two non-invasive, validated, and patented markers of…
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Non-invasive diagnosis and follow-up of chronic infection with Hepatitis C Virus.
…These AFEF guidelines on the non-invasive diagnosis and follow up of…
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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.
…Actitest, two commercially distributed non-invasive multiparametric tests for staging and grading…
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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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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.
…most validated techniques for the non-invasive assessment of fibrosis in patients…
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Diagnostic performance of FibroTest, SteatoTest and ActiTest in patients with NAFLD using the SAF score as histological reference.
…ActiTest and FibroTest are non-invasive tests that offer an alternative to…
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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.
…fibrosis index-4 (FIB-4), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease fibrosis score…
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Guidelines for the diagnosis of uncomplicated cirrhosis.
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The impact of bariatric surgery on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease as measured using non-invasive tests.
…SG) on NAFLD using validated non-invasive measures. ### Methods Patients with morbid…
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Comparison of non-invasive fibrosis markers and classical liver biopsy in chronic hepatitis C.
…compare the results of nine non-invasive serum biomarkers with liver biopsies…
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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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Noninvasive assessment of portal hypertension in patients with cirrhosis.
…hypertension, this technique is considered invasive and is not routinely performed in…
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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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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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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis progression in hepatitis C patients retreated for 96 weeks with antiviral therapy: a randomized study.
…Non-invasive markers analysis did not show any significant change in both…
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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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Hepatitis B: are non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis reliable?
…Although these non-invasive methods were initially developed and validated in patients…
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Liver fibrosis markers in alcoholic liver disease.
…is an exigency to introduce non-invasive serum markers for fibrosis that…
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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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Contribution of the ELFG test in algorithms of non-invasive markers towards the diagnosis of significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…using all available parameters and tests. ### Patients And Methods We used the…
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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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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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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.
…The other non-invasive biological tests were not influenced by serum inflammation…
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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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Performance of 11 biomarkers for liver fibrosis assessment in HIV/HBV co-infected patients.
…score were the most accurate non-invasive biochemical scores for liver fibrosis…
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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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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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FibroMAX: towards a new universal biomarker of liver disease?
…These tests, which are now available in 50 countries, can facilitate the…
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Non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease in a group of Mexican children. A multicenter study.
…Utility of non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis has been proved in…
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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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Twenty-year protocol liver biopsies: Invasive but useful for the management of liver recipients.
…limited degree from LFTs and non-invasive markers. They exerted an impact…
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Non-invasive evaluation of response to obeticholic acid in patients with NASH: Results from the REGENERATE study.
…Non-invasive tests (NITs) are increasingly being used to identify and stage…
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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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Concordance in a world without a gold standard: a new non-invasive methodology for improving accuracy of fibrosis markers.
…Non-invasive techniques, liver stiffness measurements (LSM) and biomarkers [FibroTest(R) (FT…
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Non-invasive assessment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Clinical prediction rules and blood-based biomarkers.
…non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Since liver biopsy is invasive, expensive…
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Longitudinal assessment of hepatitis C fibrosis progression by collagen and smooth muscle actin morphometry in comparison to serum markers.
…chronic liver disease relies upon non-invasive tools and changes in semi…
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Cost effectiveness of fibrosis assessment prior to treatment for chronic hepatitis C patients.
…FibroTest is a non-invasive biomarker assay for fibrosis, proposed as a…
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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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FibroTest and Fibroscan performances revisited in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Impact of the spectrum effect and the applicability rate.
…into account the failures and non-reliable results. ### Aim The aim was…
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Validation of AshTest as a Non-Invasive Alternative to Transjugular Liver Biopsy in Patients with Suspected Severe Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis.
…AshTest is an appropriate non-invasive alternative to transjugular liver biopsy.
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Non-invasive Investigations for the Diagnosis of Fontan-Associated Liver Disease in Pediatric and Adult Fontan Patients.
…to have the most promise for the non-invasive detection of FALD.
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Is it possible to predict HCV-related liver cirrhosis non-invasively through routine laboratory parameters?
…For these reasons several authors have devised non-invasive scores to predict…
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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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Prospective direct comparison of non-invasive liver tests in outpatients with type 2 diabetes using intention-to-diagnose analysis.
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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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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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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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Liver stiffness measurement and biochemical markers in Senegalese chronic hepatitis B patients with normal ALT and high viral load.
…LB was unsatisfactory for all non-invasive markers with AUROCs below 0…
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Review article: the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease -- availability and accuracy of non-invasive methods.
…However, several non-invasive diagnostic strategies have been proposed as potential diagnostic…
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Stepwise combination algorithms of non-invasive markers to diagnose significant fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…classified F0-F1 by non-invasive tests. (2) A slightly modified algorithm…
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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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Screening studies of transient elastography and FibroTest in the general population.
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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.
…using all available parameters and tests. ### Patients And Methods We used the…
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A brief review on molecular, genetic and imaging techniques for HCV fibrosis evaluation.
…Different invasive and non invasive methods are applied to diagnose the disease…
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Current Possibilities to Assess the Degree of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Haemophilia Infected with HCV--Review.
…Currently, we observe rapid developments of non-invasive methods that are particularly…
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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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[Prognosis assessment of alcoholic liver disease: how and why?].
…Non-invasive methods such as biomarker tests (e.g. FibroTest(®) or FibroMetre…
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Fibrotest-Actitest: the biochemical marker of liver fibrosis--the Israeli experience.
…the central laboratory performing the tests within 4 hours. Six parameters were…
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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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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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Non-invasive biomarkers of liver fibrosis in haemophilia patients with hepatitis C: can you avoid liver biopsy?
…Recently, non-invasive biomarkers have been used to assess histological features. The…
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Screening studies of transient elastography and FibroTest in the general population - Authors' reply.
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FibroTest-ActiTest as a non-invasive marker of liver fibrosis. Key publication
…Sensitivity analysis integrated the non-standardized observed AUROCs, the independency of authors…
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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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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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Performance of biomarkers FibroTest, ActiTest, SteatoTest, and NashTest in patients with severe obesity: meta analysis of individual patient data.
…which assessed the performance of non-invasive markers of fibrosis (FibroTest), steatosis…
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Comparison of ELF, FibroTest and FibroScan for the non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis.
…for the non-invasive staging of liver fibrosis. Serum tests are informative…
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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.
…FT) are frequently used as non-invasive alternatives for fibrosis staging to…
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Complex non-invasive fibrosis models are more accurate than simple models in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
…however, it remains unclear whether non-invasive fibrosis models can determine this…
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FibroStic: a large confirmatory study for non-invasive biomarkers accuracy, if correctly interpreted.
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Meta-analyses of FibroTest diagnostic value in chronic liver disease.
…chronic hepatitis B (CHB), alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and non-alcoholic fatty…
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FibroSURE and FibroScan in relation to treatment response in chronic hepatitis C virus.
…and higher in Asians vs non-Asians (κ = 0.86 vs 0…
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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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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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Prospective external validation of a new non-invasive test for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in patients with type 2 diabetes.
…of non-alcoholic liver disease by non-invasive blood tests, for each…
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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 ?".
…of APRI with other non-invasive tests, and estimates of false positive…
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Liver fibrosis evaluation using real-time shear wave elastography: applicability and diagnostic performance using methods without a gold standard.
…For the diagnosis of non-cirrhotic stages, the results were heterogeneous. ### Conclusions…
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, nocturnal hypoxia, and endothelial function in patients with sleep apnea.
…nonobese subjects. ### Methods Noninvasive blood tests (SteatoTest, NashTest, and FibroTest) were used…
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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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The Distribution of Liver Steatosis, Fibrosis, Steatohepatitis and Inflammation Activity in Alcoholics According to FibroMax Test.
…The new non-invasive biomarkers have higher sensitivity to quantify and predict…
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Comparison of fatty liver index with noninvasive methods for steatosis detection and quantification.
…All subjects underwent anthropometric measurements and fasting blood tests. Evaluation of liver…
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Reproducibility of blood tests of liver fibrosis in clinical practice.
…Blood tests are robust against the variability of composite blood variables.
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Impact of effective versus sham continuous positive airway pressure on liver injury in obstructive sleep apnoea: Data from randomized trials.
…The impact of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment on non-invasive…
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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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Awareness of the severity of liver disease re-examined using software-combined biomarkers of liver fibrosis and necroinflammatory activity.
…similar availability of validated fibrosis tests, but with different policies, as France…
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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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Prevalence of liver fibrosis and risk factors in a general population using non-invasive biomarkers (FibroTest).
…be used for the validation of selective or non-selective screening strategies.
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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.
…patient outcomes of four non-invasive tests for liver fibrosis [the Enhanced…
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Screening for liver fibrosis by using FibroScan(®) and FibroTest in patients with diabetes.
…hospitalized for their diabetes, using non-invasive methods, and to evaluate factors…
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Assessment of liver fibrosis and associated risk factors in HIV-infected individuals using transient elastography and serum biomarkers.
…HIV-infected individuals based on non-invasive fibrosis assessment using transient elastography…
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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.
…of nine evaluated tests for the non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis…
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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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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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EASL-EASD-EASO Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
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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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Non-invasive diagnosis of large oesophageal varices with FibroTest in patients with cirrhosis: a preliminary retrospective study.
…predictive value of FibroTest, a non-invasive marker of liver fibrosis, for…
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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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Liver biopsy: the best standard...when everything else fails.
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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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Evaluation of FibroTest-ActiTest in children with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
…FT-AT/METAVIR concordance was better in non-transplanted (8/13 pairs…
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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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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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Altered serum N-glycomics in chronic hepatitis B patients.
…satisfactory reproducibility and is a non-invasive blood test for the diagnosis…
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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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Editorial: FibroTest to predict liver-related mortality in NAFLD. Should this change the diagnostic algorithm in NAFLD?
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Prognostic value of liver fibrosis and steatosis biomarkers in type-2 diabetes and dyslipidaemia.
…evaluate the prognostic value of non-invasive biomarkers of liver fibrosis (FibroTest…
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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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Non-invasive evaluation of the liver disease severity in children with chronic viral hepatitis using FibroTest and ActiTest - comparison with histopathological assessment.
…Further studies on non-invasive methods to evaluate liver disease severity in…
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Commentary: prognostication of chronic hepatitis B - are Fibrotest and Fibroscan the final answers? Authors' reply.
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Assessment of liver fibrosis in transplant recipients with recurrent HCV infection: usefulness of transient elastography.
…leading to special need of non-invasive validated methods to estimate liver…
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Guidelines for the screening, care and treatment of persons with hepatitis C infection Key publication
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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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Comparison of eight diagnostic algorithms for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C: new algorithms are more precise and entirely noninvasive.
…A new fibrosis classification that synchronously combines two fibrosis tests was as…
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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.
…activity for use as a non-invasive alternative to liver biopsy in…
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Biomarkers of liver fibrosis.
…No significant difference has been observed between the five patented tests. A…
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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.
…patients with non-advanced fibrosis, as presumed by blood tests. ### Trial Registration…
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Diagnostic algorithms for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C: are they ready to avoid liver biopsy?
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Letter: FibroTest for staging fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease - authors' reply.
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Assessment of Selected Parameters of Liver Fibrosis and Inflammation in Patients with Diagnosed Cystic Fibrosis.
…age, sex, clinical manifestations, laboratory tests evaluating pancreas function, parameters of liver…
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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).
…the widespread use of fibrosis tests in patients with metabolic liver disease…
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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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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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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.
…an independent relationship between a non-invasive liver fibrosis test and the…
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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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Assessment of liver fibrosis: noninvasive means.
…hepatitis C (HCV), B (HBV) non alcoholic (NAFLD) and alcoholic (ALD) fatty…
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Hepatitis C virus viremia and low platelet count: a study in a hepatitis B & C endemic area in Taiwan.
…Serum HCV RNA and non-invasive markers of fibrosis (FibroTest) were tested…
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Evaluation and improvement of a reliable diagnosis of cirrhosis by blood tests.
…cirrhosis by two usual blood tests. ### Methods Reliable diagnosis was mainly evaluated…
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LCR1 and LCR2, two multi-analyte blood tests to assess liver cancer risk in patients without or with cirrhosis.
…These tests enable an algorithm which could improve the performance of the…
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Noninvasive procedures to evaluate liver involvement in HIV-1 vertically infected children.
…Yet liver biopsy is usually considered too invasive to be repeated in…
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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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Combination of fibrosis tests: sequential or synchronous?
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Non-invasive diagnosis of hepatitis B virus-related cirrhosis.
…Such limitations have encouraged development of non-invasive methods for assessment of…
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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
…non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, NashTest, a simple and non-invasive biomarker…
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The use of transient elastography and FibroTest for monitoring hepatotoxicity in patients receiving methotrexate for psoriasis.
…abnormalities in at least 2 tests (serial PIIINP, TE, or FibroTest) are…
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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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Overview of the diagnostic value of biochemical markers of liver fibrosis (FibroTest, HCV FibroSure) and necrosis (ActiTest) in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…The aim was to summarize the diagnostic value of these tests from…
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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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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.
…calcification on one hand and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) on…
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Non-invasive diagnosis and follow-up of portal hypertension.
…There is no non-invasive method alternative for oeso-gastroduodenal endoscopy in…
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Retracted: Executive functions in chronic hepatitis C virus infected elderly patients.
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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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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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ActiTest accuracy for the assessment of histological activity grades in patients with chronic hepatitis C, an overview using Obuchowski measure.
…To avoid repeated tests and the spectrum effect of activity grades prevalence…
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Prospective noninvasive analysis of hepatic fibrosis in patients with Crohn's disease: correlation of transient elastography and laboratory-based markers.
…Correlation of inflammatory markers and noninvasive liver fibrosis tests, respectively, was generally…
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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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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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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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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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Serum biochemical markers accurately predict liver fibrosis in HIV and hepatitis C virus co-infected patients.
…Our aim was to determine the operating characteristics of a non-invasive…
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Noninvasive, Blood-Based Biomarkers as Screening Tools for Hepatic Fibrosis in People With Type 2 Diabetes.
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Including osteoprotegerin and collagen IV in a score-based blood test for liver fibrosis increases diagnostic accuracy.
…transient elastography (Fibroscan™) and blood tests (Fibrometer®, Fibrotest®, and Hepascore®). In this…
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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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Relationship between the Fibrotest and portal hypertension in patients with liver disease.
…Other studies are needed to confirm these results, especially in non-decompensated…
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EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: management of hepatitis C virus infection.
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The diagnostic value of biomarkers (SteatoTest) for the prediction of liver steatosis. Key publication
…sufficient predictive values, for the non-invasive diagnosis of steatosis in patients…
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Noninvasive evaluation of NAFLD.
A common clinical concern in patients with NAFLD is whether they have…
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Comparison of Fibrotest and PGAA for the diagnosis of fibrosis stage in patients with alcoholic liver disease.
…the results of four laboratory tests (prothrombin time, γ-glutamyl transpeptidase, apolipoprotein…
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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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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…compares favorably with other noninvasive tests for the presence of significant 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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Noninvasive markers of fibrosis and inflammation in clinical practice: prospective comparison with liver biopsy.
…Fibroscan (FS)] and serum blood tests FT/AT performed before the LB…
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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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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis: are we ready?
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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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Interferon-γ-inducible protein-10 in chronic hepatitis C: Correlations with insulin resistance, histological features & sustained virological response.
…to discriminate between responders and non-responders. SVR was obtained in 107…
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Non-invasive evaluation of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…Among the non-invasive methods, Fibrotest and Fibroscan are the most widely…
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Liver fibrosis in adults with Fontan palliation: Do common screening studies predict disease severity?
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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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Acoustic radiation force imaging sonoelastography for noninvasive staging of liver fibrosis.
…liver biopsy. ### Results The noninvasive tests had a good correlation with the…
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Predictive value of biomarkers of hepatic fibrosis in adult Fontan patients.
…We sought to determine whether these tests could identify Fontan patients with…
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EASL clinical practical guidelines: management of alcoholic liver disease.
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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 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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Guidelines for the prevention, care and treatment of persons with chronic hepatitis B infection
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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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Non-invasive measurement of liver and pancreas fibrosis in patients with cystic fibrosis.
…TE seem to be promising non-invasive methods for detection of liver…
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La Haute Autorite de Sante (HAS) in France— Diagnosis of uncomplicated cirrhosis (Accessed December 2011)
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Letter: FibroTest for staging fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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[Biomarkers for liver fibrosis: advances, advantages and disadvantages].
…There is great interest in determining non-invasive markers for the diagnosis…
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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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Non-invasive diagnosis of liver steatosis using controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) and transient elastography.
…simultaneously, enlarging the spectrum of non-invasive techniques for the management of…
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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.
…Non-invasive biomarkers such as FibroTest (FT) should allow the estimation of…
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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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The Higher Prevalence of Non-Alcoholic versus Alcoholic Steatohepatitis in Alcoholics.
…by non-invasive tests. Co-occurrence of alcoholic steatohepatitis and non-alcoholic…
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[The diagnostic value of non-invasive biochemical biomarkers in alcohol abuse].
…be evaluated by means of non-invasive biochemical biomarkers: SteatoTest, FibroTest and…
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Liver fibrosis in young Egyptian beta-thalassemia major patients: relation to hepatitis C virus and compliance with chelation.
…Non invasive Liver FibroScan and Fibro-Test were reliable methods to assess…
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Impact of steatosis and inflammation definitions on the performance of NASH tests.
…tests. ### Methods We hypothesized that a simpler histological definition of non-alcoholo…
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Glycogenic hepatopathy.
…the use of unnecessary tests, especially invasive ones. ### Data Sources A PubMed…
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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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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.
…study aims to assess, using non-invasive methods, liver disease progression in…
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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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Management of the patient with SVR. Review
In the current era of therapy with direct-acting antiviral (DAAs) drugs…
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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.
…the stage of fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with…
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[SWE elastography in assessment of liver fibrosis].
…possible complications, less or even non-invasive methods are being developed, e…
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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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Evaluation of FibroTest inter-laboratory variations requires standardization on analytical systems and should not be mixed with underpowered histological validation.
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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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Slow regression of liver fibrosis presumed by repeated biomarkers after virological cure in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…SVR)] and not lower than in the 88 non-treated [45% (10…
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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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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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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.
…of variation was similar among non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and chronic…
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Assessment of allograft fibrosis by transient elastography and noninvasive biomarker scoring systems in liver transplant patients.
…AUROCs for diagnosis of F> or =3 in HCV patients and non…
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Profiles of liver fibrosis evolution during long-term tenofovir treatment in HIV-positive patients coinfected with hepatitis B.
…From data on non-invasive liver fibrosis assessments collected yearly (FibroTest®), we…
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Liver fibrosis: consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL). Key publication
…However, liver biopsy being invasive and, in many instances, not favored by…
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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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Biomarkers as a first-line estimate of injury in chronic liver diseases: time for a moratorium on liver biopsy?
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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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Diagnostic value of biochemical markers (FibroTest-FibroSURE) for the prediction of liver fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Key publication
…determine the diagnostic utility of non-invasive markers of fibrosis, validated in…
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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
…These tests enable an algorithm which could improve the performance of the…
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Biomarkers for liver disease in urea cycle disorders.
…Thus, we systematically evaluated the potential utility of several non-invasive biomarkers…
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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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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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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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The Association of Histologic and Noninvasive Tests With Adverse Clinical and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Patients With Advanced Fibrosis Due to Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.
…We assessed the associations between histologic and noninvasive tests (NITs) for fibrosis…
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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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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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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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Methotrexate in psoriasis: a systematic review of treatment modalities, incidence, risk factors and monitoring of liver toxicity.
…associated with a modest and non-significant increased risk of liver fibrosis…
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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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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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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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Discovery of novel biomarker candidates for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C patients: a preliminary study.
…liver fibrosis and no reliable non-invasive diagnostic approach is available to…
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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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American Association for the Study of the Liver
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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.
…Liver-related and non-liver-related outcomes were documented. Overall 213 episodes…
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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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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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Performance of serum apolipoprotein-A1 as a sentinel of Covid-19. Key publication
…outperformed haptoglobin and liver function tests. The adjusted risk ratio of apolipoprotein…
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Non-invasive evaluation of liver fibrosis by transient elastography and biochemical markers in elderly inpatients.
…to evaluate liver fibrosis using non-invasive methods in elderly patients. ### Methods…
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Diagnostic and prognostic values of noninvasive biomarkers of fibrosis in patients with alcoholic liver disease. Key publication
…The prognostic values of FibroTest (AUROC for survival or non liver disease…
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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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The diagnostic value of biomarkers (AshTest) for the prediction of alcoholic steato-hepatitis in patients with chronic alcoholic liver disease.
…AshTest is a simple and non-invasive quantitative estimate of alcoholic hepatitis…
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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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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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Discordance between biochemical markers of liver activity and fibrosis (Actitest-Fibrotest) and liver biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…the limitations of two blood tests, Actitest and Fibrotest, for the evaluation…
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Non-invasive fibrosis tests to predict complications in compensated post-hepatitis C cirrhosis.
…All fibrosis tests were statistically higher for cases compared to controls, Fibroscan…
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
…Validated noninvasive tests (FibroMax: SteatoTest, NashTest and FibroTest) were used to assess…
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PNPLA3 polymorphism influences liver fibrosis in unselected patients with type 2 diabetes.
…fibrosis was measured using the non-invasive FibroTest(®). ### Results Advanced liver fibrosis…
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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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Novel Biomarkers of Grade I Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Metabolic-Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease.
…Although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear, innovative non-invasive biomarkers, such as…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Noninvasive biomarkers FibroTest and ActiTest versus liver biopsy in chronic hepatitis C patients: the Middle East experience.
…observed difference between advanced and non-advanced fibrosis prevalence (DANA) was 0…
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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.
…For nil-mild fibrosis, the two tests showed limited but comparable performances…
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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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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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Successful treatment with telaprevir-based regimens for chronic hepatitis C results in significant improvements to serum markers of liver fibrosis.
…Scores from four biomarker tests, FibroTest, APRI, FIB-4 and Forns' Score…
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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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Screening for liver disease using non-invasive biomarkers (FibroTest, SteatoTest and NashTest) in patients with hyperlipidaemia.
…steatohepatitis (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, NASH). ### Aims To use the non-invasive biomarkers…
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Diagnostic performance of a new noninvasive test for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis using a simplified histological reference.
…The new test was compared with standard tests, and applied in two…
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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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Liver stiffness measurement in children using FibroScan: feasibility study and comparison with Fibrotest, aspartate transaminase to platelets ratio index, and liver biopsy.
…7 years) could have noninvasive tests for fibrosis: FibroScan, Fibrotest, and APRI…
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Assessment of methotrexate hepatotoxicity in psoriasis patients: a prospective evaluation of four serum fibrosis markers.
### Background Low-dose oral methotrexate (MTX) is an effective immunosuppressive therapy for…
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Factors to improve the management of hepatitis C in drug users: an observational study in an addiction centre.
…Liver fibrosis was assessed by a non invasive method. In 2002, 6…
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Noninvasive tests for fibrosis and liver stiffness predict 5-year outcomes of patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…We evaluated the abilities of liver stiffness, results from noninvasive tests for…
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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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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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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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FibroTest is effective in patients with normal transaminases, when accuracy is standardized on fibrosis stage prevalence.
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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.
…fibrosis stage defining advanced and non-advanced fibrosis. ### Results The mean biopsy…
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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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FibroTest-FibroSURE: towards a universal biomarker of liver fibrosis?
…These tests, which are now available in 12 countries, can facilitate the…
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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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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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Cost effectiveness of pegylated interferon alpha 2b and ribavirin combination in chronic hepatitis C.
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EASL clinical practice guidelines: Management of chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
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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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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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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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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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Validation of noninvasive biomarkers (FibroTest, SteatoTest, and NashTest) for prediction of liver injury in patients with morbid obesity.
…Weighted AUROCs of the tests were as follows (mean, 95% confidence interval…
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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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A prospective assessment of the inter-laboratory variability of biochemical markers of fibrosis (FibroTest) and activity (ActiTest) in patients with chronic liver disease.
…Our aim was to assess the inter-laboratory variability of these tests…
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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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Analytical variability of the Fibrotest proteins.
### Objectives The analytical variability of the Fibrotest (FT) parameters raises the issue…
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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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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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Poynard T, Ratziu V, Imbert-Bismut F, Munteanu M
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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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Childhood/adult-onset lysosomal acid lipase deficiency: A serious metabolic and vascular phenotype beyond liver disease-four new pediatric cases.
…Liver histology was assessed by the noninvasive tests FibroScan and FibroTest and…
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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.
…elastography), and 6 indirect marker tests in detection of advanced liver fibrosis…
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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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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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Hepatitis C guidance: AASLD-IDSA recommendations for testing, managing, and treating adults infected with hepatitis C virus. Key publication
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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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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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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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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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Higher serum testosterone is associated with increased risk of advanced hepatitis C-related liver disease in males.
…body mass index), and serological tests (e.g., viral load). The association…
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Noninvasive diagnosis of liver cirrhosis using DNA sequencer-based total serum protein glycomics.
…The current 'gold standard' for liver cirrhosis detection is an invasive, costly…
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Late presentation of chronic viral hepatitis for medical care: a consensus definition.
### Introduction We present two consensus definitions of advanced and late stage liver…
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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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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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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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Update on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic hepatitis B: AASLD 2018 hepatitis B guidance.
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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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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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Ministère des Affaires Sociales et de la Santé Key publication
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