Hepatic Pathology Among Patients Without Known Liver Disease Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: Observations and a Perspective from the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) Study

BACKGROUND: Liver biopsy is not routine during bariatric surgery. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is widely used to screen for liver disease. We assessed the relationship between ALT and pathology in biopsies from Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) patients with normal preoperative A...

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Main Authors: Kleiner, David E., Berk, Paul D., Hsu, Jesse Y., Courcoulas, Anita P., Flum, David, Khandelwal, Saurabh, Pender, John, Pomp, Alfons, Roerig, James, Machado, Laura L., Wolfe, Bruce M., Belle, Steven H.
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139971/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24782263
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1371083
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