The pace of hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug development in recent years has accelerated
dramatically. For patients to benefit from these impressive advances, practitioners need …

The diagnostic assessment of liver injury is an important step in the management of patients
with chronic liver disease (CLD). Although liver biopsy is the reference standard for the …

Chronic liver disease (CLD) is associated with approximately two million annual deaths
worldwide and is an enormous health burden.[1, 2] The majority of liver-related outcomes …

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 …

The prognosis and management of patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C depend on
the amount and progression of liver fibrosis and the risk for cirrhosis. Liver biopsy …

Continued elucidation of the mechanisms of hepatic fibrosis has yielded a comprehensive
and nuanced portrait of fibrosis progression and regression. The paradigm of hepatic …

This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a
supplement. Background: Many blood tests have been proposed as alternatives to liver …

Liver biopsy has long been an important tool for assessing the degree of liver fibrosis.
Information on the presence and degree of liver fibrosis is useful before making therapeutic …

Supersonic shear imaging (SSI) has recently been demonstrated to be a repeatable and
reproducible transient bidimensional elastography technique. We report a prospective …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: The diagnostic accuracy of non-invasive liver fibrosis tests that may
replace liver biopsy in patients with chronic hepatitis remains controversial. We assessed …