Comparison of liver stiffness, fibrotest and liver biopsy for assessment of liver fibrosis in kidney-transplant patients with chronic viral hepatitis.

Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation

Alric L, Kamar N, Bonnet D, Danjoux M, Abravanel F, Lauwers-Cances V, Rostaing L

2009 Transpl. Int. Volume 22 Issue 5

PubMed 19196449 DOI 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.00834.x

FibroTest Reliability Independant Team vs. Elastography HCV HBV Fibrosis Transplanted

To assess the accuracy of the noninvasive tools, fibrotest (FT) and liver stiffness measurement (LSM) for assessing liver fibrosis in kidney-transplant patients with chronic hepatitis virus B (HBV) or C (HCV) infection. Thirty-eight consecutive kidney-transplant patients with HCV (n = 26) or HBV (n = 12) underwent liver biopsies followed by a FT and LSM. Liver biopsies gave the following fibrosis-grade distribution using METAVIR scores: F0/F1, n = 10 (26.9%); F2, n = 14 (36.8%), F3, n = 7 (18.42%); F4, n = 7 (18.4%). The area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve for mild fibrosis stage


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