https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/630427
Title: | Transient elastography to assess hepatic fibrosis in hemodialysis chronic hepatitis C patients | Authors: | CHEN-HUA LIU Liang, Cheng-Chao KAI-WEN HUANG CHUN-JEN LIU Chen, Shih-I JOU-WEI LIN Hung, Peir-Haur Tsai, Hung-Bin Lai, Ming-Yang PEI-JER CHEN Chen, Jun-Herng DING-SHINN CHEN JIA-HORNG KAO |
Keywords: | PEGYLATED INTERFERON ALPHA-2A;PERCUTANEOUS LIVER-BIOPSY;virus-infection;noninvasive assessment;sampling variability;dialysis patients;stiffness;METAANALYSIS;index;monotherapy | Issue Date: | May-2011 | Publisher: | AMER SOC NEPHROLOGY | Journal Volume: | 6 | Journal Issue: | 5 | Start page/Pages: | 1057 | Source: | Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN | Abstract: | Although percutaneous liver biopsy (PLB) is the gold standard for staging hepatic fibrosis in hemodialysis patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) before renal transplantation or antiviral therapy, concerns exist about serious postbiopsy complications. Using transient elastography (TE, Fibroscan(®)) to predict the severity of hepatic fibrosis has not been prospectively evaluated in these patients. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/630427 | ISSN: | 1555-9041 | DOI: | 10.2215/CJN.04320510 |
Appears in Collections: | 醫學系 |
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