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Study of Fibro Q Index as a Non invasive Method to Predict Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis C

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Endemic medicine
Hepatology
Infectious diseases

Abstract

Background and study aim : Monitoring of liver fibrosis progression is important in patients with chronic hepatitis C .The aim of this study is to verify the usefulness of FibroQ for predicting fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C compared with other noninvasive tests. Patients and methods: This study included 90 naïve patients with chronic hepatitis C who had undergone percutaneous liver biopsy before treat­ment and 20 healthy volunteers as a control group. FibroQ, aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/ala­nine amino-transferase ratio (AAR), AST to platelet ratio index, cirrhosis discriminates score, age-platelet index (API), Pohl score, FIB-4 index, and Lok's model were calculated and compared. Results: FibroQ, FIB-4, AAR, API and Lok's model results increased significantly as fibrosis advanced .FibroQ trended to be superior in predicting significant fibrosis score in chronic hepatitis C compared with other noninvasive tests. Conclusion: FibroQ is a simple and useful test for predicting significant fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C.

DOI

10.21608/aeji.2015.17844

Keywords

Liver fibrosis, FibroQ, FIB-4 index, Lok’s model, Cirrhosis discriminant score, Pohl score

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Mohammed

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Nouh

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Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Egypt.

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First Name

Hatem

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El Sebaey

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M

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Medical Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Egypt.

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First Name

Somaia

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Shehab El-Deen

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A

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Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Egypt.

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Sherif

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Allam

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AA

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Tanta Fever Hospital , Tanta ,Egypt.

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sherifallam389@yahoo.com

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5

Article Issue

4

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3730

Issue Date

2015-12-01

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2015-12-01

Publish Date

2015-12-26

Page Start

235

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245

Print ISSN

2090-7613

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2090-7184

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616

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Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases

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https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023