Review article: the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease - availability and accuracy of non-invasive methods

Validation of the FIB4 index in a Japanese nonalcoholic fatty liver disease population

(2012) Yoshio Sumida et al.   BMC GASTROENTEROLOGY

Fatty liver index, gamma-glutamyltransferase, and early carotid plaques

(2012) Michaela Kozakova et al.   HEPATOLOGY

The diagnosis and management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Practice Guideline by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Gastroenterological Association

(2012) Naga Chalasani et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Head-to-head comparison of transient elastography (TE), real-time tissue elastography (RTE), and acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging in the diagnosis of liver fibrosis

(2012) Silvia Colombo et al.   JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Non-invasive diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by combined serum biomarkers

(2012) Jiayun Shen et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Reliability of liver stiffness measurement in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: the effects of body mass index

(2011) S. Petta et al.   ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Systematic review: the epidemiology and natural history of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in adults

(2011) G. Vernon et al.   ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

ASH and NASH

(2011) F. Scaglioni et al.   DIGESTIVE DISEASES

Validation of noninvasive biomarkers (FibroTest, SteatoTest, and NashTest) for prediction of liver injury in patients with morbid obesity

(2011) Guillaume Lassailly et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY

Acoustic radiation force impulse-imaging and transient elastography for non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis and steatosis in NAFLD

(2011) Mireen Friedrich-Rust et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY

Feasibility and diagnostic performance of the FibroScan XL probe for liver stiffness measurement in overweight and obese patients

(2011) Robert P. Myers et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Pathologic criteria for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: Interprotocol agreement and ability to predict liver-related mortality

(2011) Zobair M. Younossi et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Complex non-invasive fibrosis models are more accurate than simple models in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

(2011) Leon A Adams et al.   JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY

Discordance in fibrosis staging between liver biopsy and transient elastography using the FibroScan XL probe

(2011) Robert P. Myers et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Quantification of Hepatic Steatosis with T1-independent, T2*-corrected MR Imaging with Spectral Modeling of Fat: Blinded Comparison with MR Spectroscopy

(2011) Sina Meisamy et al.   RADIOLOGY

Early Detection of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Using MR Elastography

(2011) Jun Chen et al.   RADIOLOGY

The controlled attenuation parameter (CAP): A novel tool for the non-invasive evaluation of steatosis using Fibroscan®

(2011) M. Sasso et al.   Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology

Meta-analysis: Natural history of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive tests for liver disease severity

(2010) Giovanni Musso et al.   ANNALS OF MEDICINE

A simple index of lipid overaccumulation is a good marker of liver steatosis

(2010) Giorgio Bedogni et al.   BMC GASTROENTEROLOGY

Nine-year incident diabetes is predicted by fatty liver indices: the French D.E.S.I.R. study

(2010) Beverley Balkau et al.   BMC GASTROENTEROLOGY

Prevalence of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Among a Largely Middle-Aged Population Utilizing Ultrasound and Liver Biopsy: A Prospective Study

(2010) Christopher D. Williams et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Simple non-invasive fibrosis scoring systems can reliably exclude advanced fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

(2010) S. McPherson et al.   GUT

A simple clinical scoring system using ferritin, fasting insulin, and type IV collagen 7S for predicting steatohepatitis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

(2010) Yoshio Sumida et al.   JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Diagnosis of different liver fibrosis characteristics by blood tests in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

(2010) Paul Calès et al.   LIVER INTERNATIONAL

Feasibility of liver transient elastography with FibroScan® using a new probe for obese patients

(2010) Victor De Lédinghen et al.   LIVER INTERNATIONAL

Controlled Attenuation Parameter (CAP): A Novel VCTE™ Guided Ultrasonic Attenuation Measurement for the Evaluation of Hepatic Steatosis: Preliminary Study and Validation in a Cohort of Patients with Chronic Liver Disease from Various Causes

(2010) Magali Sasso et al.   ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: risk factors and diagnosis

(2010) Leon A Adams et al.   Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Older People

(2009) James Frith et al.   GERONTOLOGY

Fatty liver is associated with insulin resistance, risk of coronary heart disease, and early atherosclerosis in a large European population

(2009) Amalia Gastaldelli et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Cytokeratin-18 fragment levels as noninvasive biomarkers for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: A multicenter validation study

(2009) Ariel E. Feldstein et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Diagnosis of fibrosis and cirrhosis using liver stiffness measurement in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

(2009) Vincent Wai-Sun Wong et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Non-invasive assessment and quantification of liver steatosis by ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance

(2009) Nina F. Schwenzer et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

The Lipid Accumulation Product and All-cause Mortality in Patients at High Cardiovascular Risk: A PreCIS Database Study

(2009) Adriana G. Ioachimescu et al.   Obesity

Development and validation of a simple NAFLD clinical scoring system for identifying patients without advanced disease

(2008) S A Harrison et al.   GUT

A clinical scoring system for predicting nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in morbidly obese patients

(2008) Guilherme M. Campos et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Accuracy and reproducibility of transient elastography for the diagnosis of fibrosis in pediatric nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

(2008) Valerio Nobili et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Prevalence and risk factors of hepatic steatosis and its impact on liver injury in Chinese patients with chronic hepatitis B infection

(2008) Jun-ping Shi et al.   JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY

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

(2008) Paul Calès et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy for monitoring liver steatosis

(2008) Gary J. Cowin et al.   JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

Genetic variation in PNPLA3 confers susceptibility to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

(2008) Stefano Romeo et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A Novel Diagnostic Biomarker Panel for Obesity-related Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)

(2008) Zobair M. Younossi et al.   OBESITY SURGERY

Noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis by measurement of stiffness in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

(2007) M. Yoneda et al.   DIGESTIVE AND LIVER DISEASE