Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease
worldwide. Currently, the routinely used modalities are unable to adequately determine the …

Aims The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL) Practice Guidelines for
Management of Hepatitis C were first established in 2004, and revised in 2013, when direct …

Background Simple and inexpensive non-invasive fibrosis tests are highly needed but have
been poorly studied in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods Using liver histology as a gold …

Background & Aims Recently, the PAGE-B score and Toronto HCC risk index (THRI) have
been developed to predict the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Caucasian patients …

Liver fibrosis is part of the structural and functional alterations in most chronic liver diseases.
It is one of the main prognostic factors as the amount of fibrosis is correlated with the risk of …

These are the first World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the prevention care and
treatment of persons living with CHB infection and complement similar recent published …

Background Transient elastography (TE), a non-invasive tool that measures liver stiffness,
has been evaluated in meta-analyses for effectiveness in assessing liver fibrosis in …

Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) using FibroScan accurately assesses the degree of liver
fibrosis and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development in patients with chronic …

Background Transient elastography is a non‐invasive method for staging liver fibrosis. The
meta‐analysis using the hierarchical models to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of transient …

BACKGROUND: Liver biopsy is the reference standard for diagnosing the extent of fibrosis
in chronic liver disease; however, it is invasive, with the potential for serious complications …