[Clinical efficacy of AST/ALT ratio and platelet counts as predictors of degree of fibrosis in HBV infected patients without clinically evident liver cirrhosis]. - Concepedia

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[Clinical efficacy of AST/ALT ratio and platelet counts as predictors of degree of fibrosis in HBV infected patients without clinically evident liver cirrhosis].

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2004

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Soo Young Park, Kyung Hee Kang, Jee Hyun Park, Jong Hyup Lee, Chang Min Cho, Won Young Tak, Young Oh Kweon, Sung Kook Kim, Yong Hwan Choi

Abstract

In chronic hepatitis B patients without clinical evidence of cirrhosis, severe hepatic fibrosis might be predicted using laboratory parameters of AST/ALT > 1 in combination with platelet counts. However, its sensitivity is too low to replace liver biopsy.