How far is noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis from replacing liver biopsy in hepatitis C?

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of hepatitis C virus infection

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Optimization and robustness of blood tests for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis

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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)

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Validation of Hepascore, Compared With Simple Indices of Fibrosis, in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection in United States

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SAFE biopsy: A validated method for large-scale staging of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C

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Prospective comparison of two algorithms combining non-invasive methods for staging liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C

(2009) Laurent Castéra et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Prospective comparison of Fibroscan, King’s score and liver biopsy for the assessment of cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C infection

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The combination of a blood test and Fibroscan improves the non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis

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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic liver diseases: Implementation in clinical practice and decisional algorithms

(2009) Giada Sebastiani   WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Optimized stepwise combination algorithms of non-invasive liver fibrosis scores including Hepascore in hepatitis C virus patients

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Diagnostic Accuracy of Serum Hyaluronic Acid, FIBROSpect II, and YKL-40 for Discriminating Fibrosis Stages in Chronic Hepatitis C

(2008) Preeti Mehta et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Correlation of FIBROSpect II With Histologic and Morphometric Evaluation of Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis C

(2008) Keyur Patel et al.   Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

FibroTest-ActiTest as a non-invasive marker of liver fibrosis

(2008) Philippe Halfon et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGIE CLINIQUE ET BIOLOGIQUE

Diagnosis and Quantitation of Fibrosis

(2008) Diarmuid S. Manning et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Mechanisms of Hepatic Fibrogenesis

(2008) Scott L. Friedman   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Performance of Transient Elastography for the Staging of Liver Fibrosis: A Meta-Analysis

(2008) Mireen Friedrich–Rust et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Reliability of transient elastography for the diagnosis of advanced fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C

(2008) U Arena et al.   GUT

Extrahepatic cholestasis increases liver stiffness (FibroScan) irrespective of fibrosis

(2008) Gunda Millonig et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Factors of accuracy of transient elastography (fibroscan) for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C

(2008) Damien Lucidarme et al.   HEPATOLOGY

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

(2008) Michael Adler et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Liver stiffness is an unreliable marker of liver fibrosis in patients with cardiac insufficiency

(2008) Pascal Lebray et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Liver biopsy

(2008) Don C. Rockey et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Diagnosis, management, and treatment of hepatitis C: An update

(2008) Marc G. Ghany et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Liver fibrosis: consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL)

(2008) Gamal Shiha et al.   Hepatology International

Implementing non-invasive markers for liver fibrosis in clinical practice

(2008) Giada Sebastiani et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Exceeding the limits of liver histology markers

(2008) Shruti H. Mehta et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

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

(2008) Laurent Castéra et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Comparison of blood tests for liver fibrosis specific or not to NAFLD

(2008) Paul Calès et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Technology Insight: noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis by biochemical scores and elastography

(2008) Massimo Pinzani et al.   Nature clinical practice. Gastroenterology & hepatology