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Fibroindex, a simple noninvasive test forprediction of fibrosis in patients withchronic hepatitis C virus infection

Thesis

Last updated: 06 Feb 2023

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Tropical Medicine

Advisors

Mabrouk, Mahasen A., Mahmoud, Sherif H., Abdel-Ghany, Muhammad M.

Authors

Ahmad, Medhat Yousuf

Accessioned

2017-04-26 12:03:53

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2017-04-26 12:03:53

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M.Sc. Thesis

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate Fibroindex as simple noninvasive modelconsisting of routine laboratory tests derived from the platelet count,AST, and gammaglobulin measurements as predictor of clinicallysignificant fibrosis in 33 patients with chronic HCV infection, andcomparing its diagnostic performance to aminotransferase to platelet ratioindex (APRI). The study revealed a significant positive correlationbetween Fibroindex and stage of fibrosis. The areas under the ROCcurves for the Fibroindex were 0.962, 0.930 for predicting significantfibrosis (F2-F3) and cirrhosis (F4) respectively, better than theaminotransferase to platelet ratio index (APRI). Using the best cutoffvalues, significant fibrosis was diagnosed with high positive predictivevalue. Fibroindex had better sensitivity, specificity, positive and negativepredictive values when compared with APRI. The study revealed thatFibroindex is a reliable noninvasive test in predicting HCV relatedfibrosis compared to liver biopsy being the gold standard for diagnosis ofhepatic fibrosis.

Issued

1 Jan 2008

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.21473/iknito-space/31922

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Thesis

Created At

28 Jan 2023