Levels of Alanine Aminotransferase Confound Use of Transient Elastography to Diagnose Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic HCV Infection

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Hepatic elastography (HE) is a non-invasive technique that measures liver stiffness and is used to diagnose hepatic fibrosis. It can help patients thought to have early-stage disease avoid a staging liver biopsy, but only when confounding variables that increase liver stiffnes...

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Main Authors: Tapper, Elliot B., Cohen, Eric B., Patel, Keyur, Bacon, Bruce, Gordon, Stuart, Lawitz, Eric, Nelson, David, Nasser, Imad A., Challies, Tracy, Afdhal, Nezam
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3402604/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22289876
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2012.01.015
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