Chronic hepatitis C and liver fibrosis

Use of noninvasive markers of portal hypertension and timing of screening endoscopy for gastroesophageal varices in patients with chronic liver disease

(2013) Annalisa Berzigotti et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Regarding “liver stiffness is influenced by a standardized meal in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus at different stages of fibrotic evolution”

(2013) Annalisa Berzigotti et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Liver stiffness is influenced by a standardized meal in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus at different stages of fibrotic evolution

(2013) Umberto Arena et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Hepatic macrophages but not dendritic cells contribute to liver fibrosis by promoting the survival of activated hepatic stellate cells in mice

(2013) Jean-Philippe Pradere et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Mechanism of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)-induced Osteopontin and Its Role in Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition of Hepatocytes

(2013) Jawed Iqbal et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of hepatitis C virus infection

(2013)   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Staging chronic hepatitis C in seven categories using fibrosis biomarker (FibroTest™) and transient elastography (FibroScan®)

(2013) Thierry Poynard et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Cost-effectiveness and Population Outcomes of General Population Screening for Hepatitis C

(2012) Phillip O. Coffin et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Reduced heme oxygenase-1 expression in steatotic livers infected with hepatitis C virus

(2012) Maher Y. Abdalla et al.   European Journal of Internal Medicine

Noninvasive Methods to Assess Liver Disease in Patients With Hepatitis B or C

(2012) Laurent Castera   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Measurement of Spleen Stiffness to Evaluate Portal Hypertension and the Presence of Esophageal Varices in Patients With HCV-Related Cirrhosis

(2012) Antonio Colecchia et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Chemokine Cxcl9 attenuates liver fibrosis-associated angiogenesis in mice

(2012) Hacer Sahin et al.   HEPATOLOGY

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

(2012) G. Sebastiani et al.   JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS

Comparison of three algorithms of non-invasive markers of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C

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

Liver stiffness diminishes with antiviral response in chronic hepatitis C

(2011) C. Hézode et al.   ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Mechanisms of hepatic fibrogenesis

(2011) Ursula E. Lee et al.   BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY

Noninvasive Tests for Fibrosis and Liver Stiffness Predict 5-Year Outcomes of Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C

(2011) Julien Vergniol et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Iron Levels in Hepatocytes and Portal Tract Cells Predict Progression and Outcomes of Patients With Advanced Chronic Hepatitis C

(2011) Richard W. Lambrecht et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Comparison of eight diagnostic algorithms for liver fibrosis in hepatitis C: new algorithms are more precise and entirely noninvasive

(2011) Jérôme Boursier et al.   HEPATOLOGY

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

Serum ferritin levels are associated with a distinct phenotype of chronic hepatitis C poorly responding to pegylated interferon-alpha and ribavirin therapy

(2011) Christian M. Lange et al.   HEPATOLOGY

EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of hepatitis C virus infection

(2011)   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

FibroSURE™and FibroScan®in relation to treatment response in chronic hepatitis C virus

(2011) Keyur Patel   WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Noninvasive Markers of Liver Fibrosis Are Highly Predictive of Liver-Related Death in a Cohort of HCV-Infected Individuals With and Without HIV Infection

(2010) David Nunes et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis: it is time for laboratory medicine

(2010) Giada Sebastiani et al.   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE

Manifestations of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Beyond the Liver

(2010) Ira M. Jacobson et al.   Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Hepatitis C Virus Regulates Transforming Growth Factor β1 Production Through the Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species in a Nuclear Factor κB–Dependent Manner

(2010) Wenyu Lin et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Amelioration of hepatic fibrosis by NK cell activation

(2010) N. Muhanna et al.   GUT

Performance of the aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index for the staging of hepatitis C-related fibrosis: An updated meta-analysis

(2010) Zhong-Hua Lin et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Iron inhibits replication of infectious hepatitis C virus in permissive Huh7.5.1 cells

(2010) Carine Fillebeen et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Prediction of oesophageal varices in hepatic cirrhosis by simple serum non-invasive markers: Results of a multicenter, large-scale study

(2010) Giada Sebastiani et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Diagnostic accuracy of FibroScan and comparison to liver fibrosis biomarkers in chronic viral hepatitis: A multicenter prospective study (the FIBROSTIC study)

(2010) Francoise Degos et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Thyroid hormones induce activation of rat hepatic stellate cells through increased expression of p75 neurotrophin receptor and direct activation of Rho

(2010) Isabel Zvibel et al.   LABORATORY INVESTIGATION

Kupffer cells are associated with apoptosis, inflammation and fibrotic effects in hepatic fibrosis in rats

(2010) Cheng Liu et al.   LABORATORY INVESTIGATION

Utilization rates, complications and costs of percutaneous liver biopsy: a population-based study including 4275 biopsies

(2010) Robert P. Myers et al.   LIVER INTERNATIONAL

Functional role of chemokines in liver disease models

(2010) Hacer Sahin et al.   Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Evolving challenges in hepatic fibrosis

(2010) Scott L. Friedman   Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Macrophages: Master Regulators of Inflammation and Fibrosis

(2010) Thomas Wynn et al.   SEMINARS IN LIVER DISEASE

HCV-related burden of disease in Europe: a systematic assessment of incidence, prevalence, morbidity, and mortality

(2009) Nikolai Mühlberger et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Kupffer Cells Mediate Leptin-Induced Liver Fibrosis

(2009) Jianhua Wang et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Prospective risk assessment for hepatocellular carcinoma development in patients with chronic hepatitis C by transient elastography

(2009) Ryota Masuzaki et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Public health impact of antiviral therapy for hepatitis C in the United States

(2009) Michael L. Volk et al.   HEPATOLOGY

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

(2009) Giada Sebastiani et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Adipokines in liver diseases

(2009) Fabio Marra et al.   HEPATOLOGY

CXC chemokine ligand 4 (Cxcl4) is a platelet-derived mediator of experimental liver fibrosis

(2009) Mirko Moreno Zaldivar 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

Pitfalls of liver stiffness measurement: A 5-year prospective study of 13,369 examinations

(2009) Laurent Castéra et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Reduced serum hepcidin levels in patients with chronic hepatitis C

(2009) Domenico Girelli et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

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

Fibrosis staging in chronic hepatitis C: analysis of discordance between transient elastography and liver biopsy

(2009) V. Calvaruso et al.   JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS

Serum hepcidin levels are related to the severity of liver histological lesions in chronic hepatitis C

(2009) E. Tsochatzis et al.   JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS

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

(2009) T. J. S. Cross et al.   JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS

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

(2009) Jérôme Boursier et al.   LIVER INTERNATIONAL

The global burden of hepatitis C

(2009) Daniel Lavanchy   LIVER INTERNATIONAL

PI-3 K/AKT and ERK signaling pathways mediate leptin-induced inhibition of PPARγ gene expression in primary rat hepatic stellate cells

(2009) Yajun Zhou et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2008) M. BOURLIERE et al.   ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

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

Paracrine Activation of Hepatic CB1 Receptors by Stellate Cell-Derived Endocannabinoids Mediates Alcoholic Fatty Liver

(2008) Won-il Jeong et al.   Cell Metabolism

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

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

Patients with chronic hepatitis C achieving a sustained virological response to peginterferon and ribavirin therapy recover from impaired hepcidin secretion

(2008) Naoki Fujita 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

Liver biopsy: The best, not the gold standard

(2008) Pierre Bedossa 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

Hepatitis C Virus–Induced Reactive Oxygen Species Raise Hepatic Iron Level in Mice by Reducing Hepcidin Transcription

(2007) Sohji Nishina et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Role of endogenous opioids in modulating HSC activity in vitro and liver fibrosis in vivo

(2007) S De Minicis et al.   GUT