Hepatitis C Virus
Findings from University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases in hepatitis C virus reported
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, October 1st, 2007
Fresh data on hepatitis C virus are presented in the report "A validated method for quantifying macrovesicular hepatic steatosis in chronic hepatitis C." According to recent research from Wales, "Hepatic steatosis is increasingly seen as an important prognostic factor in chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV). The commonly used semiquantitative method of measuring steatosis is based on a study that excluded patients with HCV."
"Several potentially useful methods of quantifying steatosis using computer-assisted morphometric analysis have been proposed, but none has been validated against a proposed gold standard other than the method they were intended to replace. We...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2007-10-01)
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