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Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases 4/2014

Open Access 01-05-2014 | Oral presentation

Concordance between noninvasive assessments of fibrosis in patients with HIV/HIV+HBV infection

Authors: Elena Dumea, Adrian Streinu-Cercel, Sorin Rugină, Lucian Cristian Petcu, Simona Claudia Cambrea

Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases | Special Issue 4/2014

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Many studies used non-invasive methods to estimate the prevalence of significant fibrosis and its risk factors in patients with HIV infection. We evaluated the ability of APRI and FIB-4 score to differentiate between the different stages of fibrosis (no fibrosis/minimal fibrosis = F0-F1 and F2-F4 fibrosis moderate-severe/cirrhosis), taking as a reference, in the absence of liver biopsy, the hepatic fibrosis stratification by FibroScan. …
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Title
Concordance between noninvasive assessments of fibrosis in patients with HIV/HIV+HBV infection
Authors
Elena Dumea
Adrian Streinu-Cercel
Sorin Rugină
Lucian Cristian Petcu
Simona Claudia Cambrea
Publication date
01-05-2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases / Issue Special Issue 4/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-S4-O19

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