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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ActiTest accuracy for the assessment of histological activity grades in patients with chronic hepatitis C, an overview using Obuchowski measure.
…An updated "classical" meta-analysis of AT validation studies was also performed…
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Prognostic value of liver fibrosis biomarkers: a meta-analysis.
…A meta-analysis combined all published prognostic studies. Baseline biopsy and APRI…
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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.
…Eventually, our final data set for the meta-analysis contained 30 studies…
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Biomarkers of liver injury for hepatitis clinical trials: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.
…Meta-analysis of the percentage of fibrosis progression per year (pFPy) was…
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Noninvasive Markers of Hepatic Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis B.
…One meta-analysis combined all published studies and another used a database…
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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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Systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of fibrosis marker panels in patients with HIV/hepatitis C coinfection.
…Random effects meta-analyses and areas under summary receiver operating characteristics curves…
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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
…was estimated using random-effects meta-analysis. Risk factors for cirrhosis were…
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Performance of biomarkers FibroTest, ActiTest, SteatoTest, and NashTest in patients with severe obesity: meta analysis of individual patient data.
…Using the classical meta-analysis (random effect model) the mean AUROCs were…
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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.
…0.87. ### Conclusion The results of this meta-analysis suggest that, when…
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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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FibroTest/Fibrosure for significant liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis B: a meta-analysis.
…N=1754) in the heterogenous meta-analysis for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis…
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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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Meta-analyses of FibroTest diagnostic value in chronic liver disease.
…Two meta-analyses were performed: one combining all the published studies (random…
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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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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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Noninvasive diagnosis in alcohol-related liver disease. Review
### Background Alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) represents a major cause of death…
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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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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 for Assessment of Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis: An Evidence-Based Analysis.
…The analysis also aimed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of transient elastography…
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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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Non-invasive measurement of liver and pancreas fibrosis in patients with cystic fibrosis.
### Background Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have a relevant morbidity and mortality…
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Biomarkers of liver fibrosis.
Liver biopsy, due to its limitations and risks, is an imperfect gold…
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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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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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Pharmacotherapeutic efficacy on noninvasive fibrosis progression in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Review
…and frequentist random effects network meta-analysis was performed among randomized controlled…
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Liver biopsy analysis has a low level of performance for diagnosis of intermediate stages of fibrosis.
…We investigated whether this controversy results from limitations of biopsy analysis for…
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FibroTest-ActiTest as a non-invasive marker of liver fibrosis. Key publication
…was to update a previous meta-analysis of FT diagnostic value, and…
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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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EASL clinical practical guidelines: management of alcoholic liver disease.
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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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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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Letter: FibroTest for staging fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease - authors' reply.
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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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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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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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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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Management of the patient with SVR. Review
In the current era of therapy with direct-acting antiviral (DAAs) drugs…
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
…In multivariate analysis, SteatoTest and FibroTest were significantly associated with sex, body…
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Impact of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease on long-term cardiovascular events and death in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
…In univariate analysis, patients with liver fibrosis had more cardiovascular events and…
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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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Letter: FibroTest for staging fibrosis in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Noninvasive Testing for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Hepatic Fibrosis in Patients With Psoriasis Receiving Long-term Methotrexate Sodium Therapy.
…Data analysis was performed from January 1 to December 31, 2014. ### Main…
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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®).
…Using Cox-multivariate analysis adjusted for treatment, viral load, HBeAg status and…
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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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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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Concordance of non-invasive serology-based scoring indices and transient elastography for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…index calculated for the concordance analysis. Results Median age of 63 patients…
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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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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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Prospective evaluation of FibroTest®, FibroMeter®, and HepaScore® for staging liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B: comparison with hepatitis C.
…Multivariate analysis showed that hepatitis B (0R 3.4, 95% CI 1…
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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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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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Editorial: FibroTest to predict liver-related mortality in NAFLD. Should this change the diagnostic algorithm in NAFLD?
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Combination of blood tests for significant fibrosis and cirrhosis improves the assessment of liver-prognosis in chronic hepatitis C.
…Multivariate analysis identified FibroMeter, CirrhoMeter and sustained viral response as independent predictors…
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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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Novel Biomarkers of Grade I Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Metabolic-Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease.
…Regression analysis revealed that grade 1 LVDD was positively associated with age…
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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.
…The analysis of the discordances between pairs suggested that the variability of…
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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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EASL-EASD-EASO Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Non-Alcoholic 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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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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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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LCR1 and LCR2, two multi-analyte blood tests to assess liver cancer risk in patients without or with cirrhosis. Key publication
…Methods We performed a retrospective analysis in prospectively collected specimens from an…
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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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Correlation between liver biopsy and fibrotest in the evaluation of hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…03] were considered as risk factors of discordance in multivariate analysis. ### Conclusion…
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Update on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic hepatitis B: AASLD 2018 hepatitis B guidance.
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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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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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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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FibroTest and FibroScan for the prediction of hepatitis C-related fibrosis: a systematic review of diagnostic test accuracy.
…Random effects meta-analyses and areas under summary receiver operating characteristics curves…
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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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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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Intestinal failure-associated liver disease in patients with short bowel syndrome: Evaluation by transient elastography.
…Bioelectrical impedance analysis was performed in all patients. ### Results FibroScan and CAP…
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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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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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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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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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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-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.
…correlated with CACS in univariate analysis (r = 0.293, p = 0.0002…
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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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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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Guidelines for the screening, care and treatment of persons with hepatitis C infection Key publication
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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.
…In a post hoc analysis the FibroTest outperformed VCTE by 4.1…
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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.
…liver biopsy were suitable for analysis. One hundred and twenty patients (65…
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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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Letter: APRI and FIB-4 do not correlate with Fibrosure in the evaluation of liver fibrosis in hepatitis C patients.
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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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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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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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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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Non-invasive tests for fibrosis and liver stiffness predict 5-year survival of patients chronically infected with hepatitis B virus.
…In multivariate analysis, FibroTest and liver stiffness had the highest hazard ratio…
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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.
…as FibroTest should allow powerful analysis of fibrosis progression in chronic liver…
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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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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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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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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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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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Reproducibility of non-invasive fibrosis biomarkers, FibroMeter and FibroTest, could be improved by respecting the analytical standardizations.
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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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Noninvasive, Blood-Based Biomarkers as Screening Tools for Hepatic Fibrosis in People With Type 2 Diabetes.
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The use of transient elastography and FibroTest for monitoring hepatotoxicity in patients receiving methotrexate for psoriasis.
…On univariate analysis body mass index (r = 0.40, P = .005) and…
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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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FibroStic: a large confirmatory study for non-invasive biomarkers accuracy, if correctly interpreted.
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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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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: 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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Severity of Fontan-Associated Liver Disease Correlates with Fontan Hemodynamics.
…Multivariable risk factor analysis revealed Fontan duration to be a major risk…
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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).
…in the study. ### Results The analysis was first conducted on the total…
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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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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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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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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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Changes of non-invasive markers and FibroScan values during HCV treatment.
…In multivariate analysis, treatment was the only factor independently associated with a…
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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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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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EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: management of hepatitis C virus infection.
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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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Guidelines for the prevention, care and treatment of persons with chronic hepatitis B infection
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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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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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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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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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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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Assessment of liver fibrosis with transient elastography and FibroTest in patients treated with methotrexate for chronic inflammatory diseases: a case-control study.
…In a multivariate analysis, factors associated with abnormal markers of liver fibrosis…
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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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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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Prospective noninvasive analysis of hepatic fibrosis in patients with Crohn's disease: correlation of transient elastography and laboratory-based markers.
…In addition to descriptive statistical analysis, Pearson's correlation coefficients were determined…
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Methotrexate in psoriasis: a systematic review of treatment modalities, incidence, risk factors and monitoring of liver toxicity.
### Background/Aim To define practical use and to specify the ideal method…
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Value of two noninvasive methods to detect progression of fibrosis among HCV carriers with normal aminotransferases.
…Weighted kappa analysis was used to verify whether the results of noninvasive…
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Fibromax-based nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with obstructive sleep apnea: Methodological considerations.
The relationship between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and obstructive sleep apnea…
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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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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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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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Appropriate evidence-based data overviews demonstrate the diagnostic and prognostic performances of FibroTest in patients with chronic 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Noninvasive Indirect Markers of Liver Fibrosis in Alcoholics.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic values of…
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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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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.
…In an multivariate analysis, fibrosis stage and the presence of alcoholic hepatitis…
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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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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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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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Assessment of liver fibrosis in transplant recipients with recurrent HCV infection: usefulness of transient elastography.
…Differences between fibrosis stages were calculated by non-parametric analysis. The best…
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Performance of the FibroTest cannot be accurately estimated in nine paediatric patients with advanced fibrosis.
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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.
…In univariate analysis, the annualized change in LLACS was positively and mainly…
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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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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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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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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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Biomarkers for liver disease in urea cycle disorders.
…The analysis of serum biomarkers revealed that 32% of participants had elevated…
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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis: are we ready?
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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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EASL clinical practice guidelines: Management of chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
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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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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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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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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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FibroTest is effective in patients with normal transaminases, when accuracy is standardized on fibrosis stage prevalence.
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Successful treatment with telaprevir-based regimens for chronic hepatitis C results in significant improvements to serum markers of liver fibrosis.
…We performed a retrospective analysis of data generated from one Phase 2…
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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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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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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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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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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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Liver biopsy: the best standard...when everything else fails.
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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.
…Owing to the heterogeneity of the studies, no formal meta-analysis was…
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Coffee consumption and nonalcoholic fatty liver onset: a prospective study in the general population.
…The analysis was performed both in a cross-sectional cohort (n = 347…
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Discordance between liver biopsy and FibroTest in assessing liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B.
…The Batts and Ludwig scoring system was used for histological analysis. ### Results…
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PNPLA3 polymorphism influences liver fibrosis in unselected patients with type 2 diabetes.
…In multivariate analysis, the predictive variables for advanced liver fibrosis were age…
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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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Blood tests to diagnose fibrosis or cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
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Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir in patients with hepatitis C virus genotypes 1-6 and compensated cirrhosis or advanced fibrosis.
…advanced fibrosis. ### Methods This retrospective analysis included 501 patients with compensated cirrhosis…
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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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Comparison of acoustic radiation force impulse imaging with transient elastography for the detection of complications in patients with cirrhosis.
…Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that ARFI spleen better predicted the presence…
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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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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, nocturnal hypoxia, and endothelial function in patients with sleep apnea.
…By multivariate analysis, independent factors for liver steatosis were, as expected, triglyceride…
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Real-world efficacy and safety of ombitasvir, paritaprevir/r+dasabuvir+ribavirin in genotype 1b patients with hepatitis C virus cirrhosis.
…Liver decompensation was statistically associated in multivariate analysis with platelets< 10^5…
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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.
…Cross sectional analysis revealed comparable liver disease severity distribution between HBV-G…
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Study of FibroTest and hyaluronic acid biological variation in healthy volunteers and comparison of serum hyaluronic acid biological variation between chronic liver diseases of different etiology and fibrotic stage using confidence intervals.
### Objectives Personalized ranges of liver fibrosis serum biomarkers such as FibroTest or…
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Screening for liver fibrosis by using FibroScan(®) and FibroTest in patients with diabetes.
…By univariate analysis, factors associated with severe fibrosis were age, type 2…
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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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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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Evaluation of FibroTest-ActiTest in children with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
…and to compare FT-AT analysis with liver histology. A total of…
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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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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 ?".
…Results The overview, and the analysis of the control populations found that…
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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.
…Statistical analysis was performed using the Wilcoxon test. ### Results Seventy-three HIV…
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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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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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Diagnostic and prognostic values of noninvasive biomarkers of fibrosis in patients with alcoholic liver disease. Key publication
…In multivariate analysis the most significant was FibroTest (P = 0.001), without…
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Hepatitis C in 6,865 patients 65 yr or older: a severe and neglected curable disease?
…In multivariate analysis, ages at biopsy and at infection were associated with…
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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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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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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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A novel panel of blood markers to assess the degree of liver fibrosis.
…staging (F2-F4), and image analysis was used to determine the area…
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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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Impact of adefovir dipivoxil on liver fibrosis and activity assessed with biochemical markers (FibroTest-ActiTest) in patients infected by hepatitis B virus. Key publication
…The analysis of 924 estimates for the diagnosis of bridging fibrosis, cirrhosis…
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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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Screening studies of transient elastography and FibroTest in the general population.
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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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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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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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Liver fibrosis markers in alcoholic liver disease.
Alcohol is one of the main factors of liver damage. The evaluation…
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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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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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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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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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Assessment of Selected Parameters of Liver Fibrosis and Inflammation in Patients with Diagnosed Cystic Fibrosis.
…The analysis involved the following: age, sex, clinical manifestations, laboratory tests evaluating…
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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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Noninvasive tests for fibrosis and liver stiffness predict 5-year outcomes of patients with chronic hepatitis C.
…of the noninvasive method of analysis. All methods were able to predict…
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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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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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External Validation of LCR1-LCR2, a Multivariable Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk Calculator, in a Multiethnic Cohort of Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B.
…A post hoc analysis compared the number of patients needed to screen…
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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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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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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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[Biomarkers for liver fibrosis: advances, advantages and disadvantages].
Liver cirrhosis in Mexico is one of the most important causes of…
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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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Hepatoprotective Effect of Antrodia cinnamomea Mycelium in Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.
…and blood testing for biochemical analysis, immune function assay, inflammatory cytokines assay…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Accuracy of the Enhanced Liver Fibrosis Test vs FibroTest, Elastography, and Indirect Markers in Detection of Advanced Fibrosis in Patients With Alcoholic Liver Disease.
…Adding a serum marker to transient elastography analysis did not increase accuracy…
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Diagnostic value of biochemical markers (NashTest) for the prediction of non alcoholo steato hepatitis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Key publication
### Background Liver biopsy is considered the gold standard for assessing histologic lesions…
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Screening studies of transient elastography and FibroTest in the general population - Authors' reply.
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The diagnostic performance of a simplified blood test (SteatoTest-2) for the prediction of liver steatosis. Key publication
…primary aim of this retrospective analysis of prospective studies was to construct…
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Guidelines for the diagnosis of uncomplicated cirrhosis.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Staging chronic hepatitis C in seven categories using fibrosis biomarker (FibroTest™) and transient elastography (FibroScan®).
### Background & Aims FibroTest™ (FT) and Transient Elastography (TE) have been validated as…
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Noninvasive evaluation of NAFLD.
A common clinical concern in patients with NAFLD is whether they have…
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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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Ministère des Affaires Sociales et de la Santé Key publication
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