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Review
. 2019 Mar;86(3):179-186.
doi: 10.3949/ccjm.86a.17118.

Assessing liver fibrosis without biopsy in patients with HCV or NAFLD

Tavankit Singh  1 , Daniela S Allende  2   3 , Arthur J McCullough  4   5
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Review

Assessing liver fibrosis without biopsy in patients with HCV or NAFLD

Tavankit Singh et al. Cleve Clin J Med. 2019 Mar.
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Abstract

Staging of liver fibrosis is increasingly done using noninvasive methods, in some cases obviating the need for liver biopsy. Scores based on laboratory values and demographic variables have been developed and validated for assessing fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), as have several imaging methods that measure shear-wave velocity, a reflection of fibrosis severity.

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    Mandell BF. Mandell BF. Cleve Clin J Med. 2019 Mar;86(3):150. doi: 10.3949/ccjm.86b.03019. Cleve Clin J Med. 2019. PMID: 30849031 No abstract available.

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