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Hepascore: an accurate validated predictor of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C infection.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Oct 2005
Adams Leon A, Bulsara Max, Rossi Enrico, DeBoer Bastiaan, Speers David, George Jacob, Kench James, Farrell Geoffrey, McCaughan Geoffrey W, Jeffrey Gary P
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BACKGROUND: Staging hepatic fibrosis by liver biopsy guides prognosis and treatment of hepatitis C, but is invasive and expensive. We sought to create an algorithm of serum markers that accurately and reliably predict liver fibrosis stage among hepatitis C patients. METHODS: Ten biochemical markers were measured at time of liver biopsy in 117 untreated hepatitis C patients (training set). Multivariate logistic...
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