Screening for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis by using cytokeratin 18 and transient elastography in HIV mono-infection.

HIV-infected individuals are at high risk of developing nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a leading cause of end-stage liver disease in Western countries. Nonetheless, due to the invasiveness of liver biopsy, NASH remains poorly understood in HIV mono-infection. We aimed to characterize the preva...

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Main Authors: Amine Benmassaoud, Peter Ghali, Joseph Cox, Philip Wong, Jason Szabo, Marc Deschenes, Maria Osikowicz, Bertrand Lebouche, Marina B Klein, Giada Sebastiani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5790260?pdf=render