Liver fibrosis occurs when the healthy tissue of your liver becomes scarred and cannot work as well. Fibrosis is the first stage of liver scarring. Some fibrosis can be reversible. Scarring of the ...

Patients with F0 fibrosis were too young as compared to those who developed moderate or severe fibrosis leading to cirrhosis (Mean age ± SD, 25.9 ± 2.4 years).

A total of 224 patients were examined who had undergone liver biopsy. The index was constructed with data from 149 patients (estimation set) and 75 patients (validation set). Patient ...

Patients with bridging fibrosis (stage F3) had an all-cause mortality rate of 0.89 per 100 person-years (HR 1.9 vs F0-F2, 95% CI 0.9-3.7). "[NAFLD] affects more than one quarter of the adult ...

Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis with no fibrosis (F0) or negligible fibrosis (F1) has an excellent prognosis, and thus intensive follow-up and liver-targeted treatments are not necessary.

A total of 1773 adults with NAFLD were followed for a median of 4 years. All-cause mortality increased with increasing fibrosis stages (0.32 deaths per 100 person-years for stage F0 to F2 [no ...

Multiple serum biomarkers, measured by various methods, revealed high misclassification rates when determining fibrosis stage accuracy among patients with chronic hepatitis C virus, according to ...