Noninvasive monitoring of patients with chronic hepatitis C

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1997 • 3,027 citations

Intraobserver and Interobserver Variations in Liver Biopsy Interpretation in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

1994 • 1,968 citations

Biochemical markers of liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C virus infection: a prospective study

2001 • 1,432 citations

Liver fibrosis progression in human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus coinfected patients

1999 • 1,234 citations

SAMPLING VARIABILITY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE DIAGNOSTIC YIELD OF PERCUTANEOUS NEEDLE BIOPSY OF THE LIVER

1986 • 606 citations

AST/ALT Ratio Predicts Cirrhosis in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

1998 • 516 citations

Ratio of Serum Aspartate to Alanine Aminotransferase in Chronic Hepatitis Relationship to Cirrhosis

1988 • 497 citations

Hepatitis C virus related cirrhosis: time to occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma and death

2000 • 374 citations

Characteristics of patients with dual infection by hepatitis B and C viruses

1998 • 373 citations

Noninvasive diagnosis of hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis

1997 • 365 citations

Slow progression rate of fibrosis in hepatitis C virus patients with persistently normal alanine transaminase activity

1998 • 312 citations

Serum aminotransferase levels and platelet counts as predictors of degree of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

2001 • 277 citations

Age and platelet count: a simple index for predicting the presence of histological lesions in patients with antibodies to hepatitis C virus

1997 • 267 citations

Ultrasonographic diagnosis of hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis

1999 • 253 citations

Serum YKL-40 is increased in patients with hepatic fibrosis

2000 • 250 citations

Diagnostic accuracy of hyaluronan and type III procollagen amino-terminal peptide serum assays as markers of liver fibrosis in chronic viral hepatitis C evaluated by ROC curve analysis

1996 • 242 citations

Non-invasive diagnosis of hepatic cirrhosis by transit-time analysis of an ultrasound contrast agent

1999 • 241 citations

Measurement of serum hyaluronic acid in patients with chronic hepatitis C and its relationship to liver histology

2000 • 234 citations

Natural history of hepatitis C virus carriers with persistently normal aminotransferase levels

2000 • 224 citations

The role of laparoscopy in the diagnosis of cirrhosis

1996 • 209 citations

Interobserver study of liver histopathology using the Ishak score in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

1999 • 208 citations

Non-invasive diagnosis of esophageal varices in chronic liver diseases

1999 • 182 citations

Aspartate aminotransferase : alanine aminotransferase ratio in chronic hepatitis C infection: Is it a useful predictor of cirrhosis?

2000 • 173 citations

Need for validation of clinical decision aids: use of the AST/ALT ratio in predicting cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C

2000 • 111 citations

Natural course of progression of liver fibrosis in Japanese patients with chronic liver disease type C – a study of 527 patients at one establishment

2000 • 88 citations

The significance of baseline serum alanine aminotransferase on pretreatment disease characteristics and response to antiviral therapy in chronic hepatitis C

2000 • 75 citations

Serum aspartate but not alanine aminotransferase levels help to predict the histological features of chronic hepatitis c viral infections in adults

2000 • 66 citations

Indocyanine green intrinsic hepatic clearance as a prognostic index of survival in patients with cirrhosis

1989 • 64 citations

Quantitative testing of liver function in relation to fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B and C

2001 • 63 citations

Historical features are poor predictors of liver fibrosis in Canadian patients with chronic hepatitis C

2001 • 18 citations

Relation of cytokines to progression of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C

2001 • 4 citations