Healthcare and socioeconomic costs of NAFLD: A global framework to navigate the uncertainties

AM Allen, JV Lazarus, ZM Younossi - Journal of hepatology, 2023 - Elsevier
Left unaddressed, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) will continue to have substantial
health, economic and social implications. To address the challenge, a paradigm shift is …

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiovascular risk: Pathophysiological mechanisms and implications

SM Francque, D Van Der Graaff, WJ Kwanten - Journal of hepatology, 2016 - Elsevier
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become one of the most frequent chronic liver
diseases in the Western society and its prevalence is likely to rise even further. An …

[HTML][HTML] Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A patient guideline

SM Francque, G Marchesini, A Kautz, M Walmsley… - JHEP reports, 2021 - Elsevier
This patient guideline is intended for all patients at risk of or living with non-alcoholic fatty
liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD is the most frequent chronic liver disease worldwide and …

[HTML][HTML] EFSUMB guidelines and recommendations on the clinical use of liver ultrasound elastography, update 2017 (long version)

CF Dietrich, J Bamber, A Berzigotti… - Ultraschall in der …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
We present here the first update of the 2013 EFSUMB (European Federation of Societies for
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology) Guidelines and Recommendations on the clinical use …

Liver fibrosis: Review of current imaging and MRI quantification techniques

L Petitclerc, G Sebastiani, G Gilbert… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Liver fibrosis is characterized by the accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins such as
collagen in the liver interstitial space. All causes of chronic liver disease may lead to fibrosis …

[HTML][HTML] Screening for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in persons with type 2 diabetes in the United States is cost-effective: a comprehensive cost-utility analysis

M Noureddin, C Jones, N Alkhouri, EV Gomez… - …, 2020 - gastrojournal.org
Methods We developed a Markov model to compare the strategies of screening and
treatment versus no screening and treatment of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in …

[HTML][HTML] A structured literature review of the epidemiology and disease burden of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)

M Povsic, OY Wong, R Perry, J Bottomley - Advances in therapy, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Introduction Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is a chronic, progressive
disease characterized by fatty liver and liver cell injury, advancing to fibrosis, cirrhosis and …

Prospective comparison of transient, point shear wave, and magnetic resonance elastography for staging liver fibrosis

T Lefebvre, C Wartelle-Bladou, P Wong… - European …, 2019 - Springer
Objectives To perform head-to-head comparisons of the feasibility and diagnostic
performance of transient elastography (TE), point shear-wave elastography (pSWE), and …

[HTML][HTML] The role of fibrosis index FIB-4 in predicting liver fibrosis stage and clinical prognosis: A diagnostic or screening tool?

X Xu, L Jiang, C Wu, L Pan, Z Lou, C Peng… - Journal of the Formosan …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review evaluates the ability of the fibrosis index based on four factors (FIB-4) identifying
fibrosis stages, long-time prognosis in chronic liver disease, and short-time outcomes in …

Comparison of radiologists and deep learning for US grading of hepatic steatosis

P Vianna, SI Calce, P Boustros, C Larocque-Rigney… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Screening for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is suboptimal due to the
subjective interpretation of US images. Purpose To evaluate the agreement and diagnostic …