Current applications of elastometry and Fibro- and ActiTest for diagnostics of hepatic fibrosis
Ch.S. Pavlov, D.V. Glushenkov, V.T. Ivashkin V.Kh.Vasilenko Hospital of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Hepatology, I.M.Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy Russian Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Coloproctology (RJGHC)
Diagnostics and treatment of chronic diffuse hepatic diseases is one of the main problems of modern hepatology. Development of sequential stages of fibrosis culminating in cirrhosis and hepatic cancer is the major pathway fro progression of these diseases and this essentially determines unfavorable life-threatening prognosis and short time of survival of these type of patients
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