Non-invasive fibrosis algorithms are clinically useful for excluding cirrhosis in prisoners living with hepatitis C

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Prison-based HCV treatment rates remain low due to multiple barriers, including accessing transient elastography for cirrhosis determination. The AST-to-platelet ratio index (APRI) and FIB-4 scores have excellent negative predictive value (NPV) in hospital cohorts to exclude cir...

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Autores principales: Papaluca, Timothy, Craigie, Anne, McDonald, Lucy, Edwards, Amy, MacIsaac, Michael, Holmes, Jacinta A., Jarman, Matthew, Lee, Tanya, Huang, Hannah, Chan, Andrew, Lai, Mark, Sundararajan, Vijaya, Doyle, Joseph S., Hellard, Margaret, Stoove, Mark, Howell, Jessica, Desmond, Paul, Iser, David, Thompson, Alexander J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7673506/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33206696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242101

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