Report summarizes hepatitis C virus study findings from I. Sporea and co-researchers

In this recently published article, scientists in Timisoara, Romania conducted a study "To compare the liver stiffness (LS) measurement by transient elastography (TE) to the liver biopsy (LB)-considered the ''gold standard'' in the evaluation of patients with chronic hepatitis C. During a period of 12 mo, we evaluated 199 consecutive patients with chronic hepatitis due to hepatitis C virus (HCV), in which LB and LS assessments (by means of TE) were performed during the same session. Out of 199 patients, a valid measurement of the LS could not be obtained in 8. The mean value of LS in the cohort of 191 valid measurements was 8.45 +/- 4.96 kPa, ranging from 2.3 to 38 kPa."

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