Schistosomiasis is a major neglected tropical disease that afflicts more than 240 million
people, including many children and young adults, in the tropics and subtropics. The …

The presence and degree of hepatic fibrosis is crucial in order to make therapeutic decisions
and predict clinical outcomes. Currently, the place of liver biopsy as the standard of …

Hepatic fibrosis is a common pathway leading to liver cirrhosis, which is the end result of any
injury to the liver. Accurate assessment of the degree of fibrosis is important clinically …

Abstract The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) convened an
international working party on the “APASL Consensus Statements and Management …

Liver function reserve estimation is important for selecting the appropriate patients for
hepatectomy or ablation of tumors. Many liver function tests have been devised, but the …

(1) Background: FibroTest™ is a multi-marker panel, suggested by guidelines as one of the
surrogate markers with acceptable performance for detecting fibrosis in patients with non …

Although hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the leading cause of liver fibrosis (LF), the
mechanisms underlying liver fibrotic progression remain unclear. Here, we investigated the …

Abstract The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) convened an
international working party on “APASL consensus statements and recommendations for …

Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2011; 34: 1202–1216 Summary Background Performance of non‐
invasive fibrosis biomarkers may be influenced by aetiology of chronic liver disease (CLD) …

Background and Aims EUS-guided fine-needle core biopsy sampling is a safe and effective
technique for diagnosis of focal liver lesions. However, data are limited in its role in …