Daily Archives: December 27, 2016
Collaboration, Not Competition: The Role of Magnetic Resonance, Transient Elastography, and Liver Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
The global obesity pandemic necessitates characterization of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in an extremely large and growing number of patients. This disease subsumes hepatic fat, inflammation, and fibrosis. Fibrosis is of particular interes… Continue reading
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Collaboration, Not Competition: The Role of Magnetic Resonance, Transient Elastography, and Liver Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
The global obesity pandemic necessitates characterization of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in an extremely large and growing number of patients. This disease subsumes hepatic fat, inflammation, and fibrosis. Fibrosis is of particular interes… Continue reading
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Evaluating the Safety of Endoscopy During Pregnancy: The Robust Statistical Power vs Limitations of a National Registry Study
From 1957 to 1962, an epidemic of about 4000 cases of phocomelia, a severe, congenital malformation of deformed or rudimentary limbs, occurred from in utero fetal exposure to thalidomide1 after its administration to pregnant mothers to treat nausea an… Continue reading
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Occult Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Are We Digging Too Deep?
Occult hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (OCI) is the detection of HCV RNA in either liver tissue or peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) despite repeatedly undetectable levels of HCV RNA in serum.1 From a clinical perspective, OCI has been linked… Continue reading
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Occult Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Are We Digging Too Deep?
Occult hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (OCI) is the detection of HCV RNA in either liver tissue or peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) despite repeatedly undetectable levels of HCV RNA in serum.1 From a clinical perspective, OCI has been linked… Continue reading
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