What has the optimistic bias got to do with the need to differentiate fatty liver from nonalcoholic steatohepatitis?

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 229-231

  Tarantino, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACARBOSE; ANOREXIGENIC AGENT; FIBRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1 DERIVATIVE; METFORMIN; TETRAHYDROLIPSTATIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; FATTY LIVER; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OPTIMISM; OPTIMISM BIAS; PHYSICIAN; PORTAL HYPERTENSION;

FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 80053554070     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

References (28)

1. Sharot T, Shiner T, Dolan RJ. Experience and choice shape expected aversive outcomes. J Neurosci 2010;30:9209-9215.
2. Sharot T, De Martino B, Dolan RJ. How choice reveals and shapes expected hedonic outcome. J Neurosci 2009;29:3760-3765.
3. Ludwig J, Viggiano TR, McGill DB, Oh BJ. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: Mayo Clinic experiences with a hitherto unnamed disease. Mayo Clin Proc 1980;55:434-438.
4. Ludwig J, McGill DB, Lindor KD. Review: nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1997;12:398-403.
5. Laurin J, Lindor KD, Crippin JS, et al. Ursodeoxycholic acid or clofbrate in the treatment of non-alcohol-induced steatohepatitis: a pilot study. Hepatology 1996;23:1464-1467.
6. Tarantino G, Saldalamacchia G, Conca P, Arena A. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: further expression of the metabolic syndrome. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2007;22:293-303.
7. Schmid M, Flury R, Bühler H, Havelka J, Grob PJ, Heitz PU. Chronic viral hepatitis B and C: an argument against the conventional classifcation of chronic hepatitis. Virchows Arch 1994;425:221-228.
8. Scheuer PJ, Davies SE, Dhillon AP. Histopathological aspects of viral hepatitis. J Viral Hepat 1996;3:277-283.
9. Assy N, Minuk G. A comparison between previous and present histologic assessments of chronic hepatitis C viral infections in humans. World J Gastroenterol 1999;5:107-110.
10. Tarantino G, Colicchio P, Conca P, et al. Young adult obese subjects with and without insulin resistance: what is the role of chronic infammation and how to weigh it non-invasively? J Infamm (Lond) 2009;6:6
11. Fierbinteanu-Braticevici C, Baicus C, Tribus L, Papacocea R. Predictive factors for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). J Gastrointestin Liver Dis 2011; 20: 153-159.
12. Tarantino G. Should nonalcoholic fatty liver disease be regarded as a hepatic illness only? World J Gastroenterol 2007;13:4669-4672.
13. Grant A, Neuberger J. Guidelines on the use of liver biopsy in clinical practice. British Society of Gastroenterology. Gut 1999;45 Suppl 4: IV1-IV11.
14. Ratziu V, Charlotte F, Heurtier A, et al; LIDO Study Group. Sampling variability of liver biopsy in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Gastroenterology 2005;128:1898-1906.
15. Younossi ZM, Gramlich T, Liu YC, et al. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: assessment of variability in pathologic interpretations. Mod Pathol 1998;11:560-565.
16. Tarantino G, Conca P, Riccio A, et al. Enhanced serum concentrations of transforming growth factor-beta1 in simple fatty liver: is it really benign? J Transl Med 2008;6:72.
17. Larson SP, Bowers SP, Palekar NA, Ward JA, Pulcini JP, Harrison SA. Histopathologic variability between the right and left lobes of the liver in morbidly obese patients undergoing Roux-en-Y bypass. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2007;5:1329-1332.
18. Merriman RB, Ferrell LD, Patti MG, et al. Correlation of paired liver biopsies in morbidly obese patients with suspected nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Hepatology 2006;44:874-880.
19. Tarantino G, Conca P, Coppola A, Vecchione R, Di Minno G. Serum concentrations of the tissue polypeptide specifc antigen in patients suffering from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Eur J Clin Invest 2007;37:48-53
20. Rayssiguier R, Bonny C, Abergel A, et al. Pratiques et attentes des medecins generalistes en matiere d'hepatite C dans la region auvergne. Proceedings of Les 25-emes Journees Francophones de Patologie Digestive, Paris, France, Abstract 76. Available from: http://www.snfge.asso.fr/01-bibliotheque/0a-resumes-jfpd/2001/ lundi/posters/76.htm
21. Sporea I, Popescu A, Stirli R, Danila M, Strain M. Ultrasound assisted liver biopsy for the staging of diffuse chronic hepatopathies. Rom J Gastroenterol 2004;13:287-290.
22. Maharaj B, Bhoora IG. Complications associated with percutaneous needle biopsy of the liver when one, two or three specimens are taken. Postgrad Med J 1992;68:964-967.
23. Ahishali E, Demir K, Ahishali B, et al. Electron microscopic fndings in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: is there a difference between hepatosteatosis and steatohepatitis? J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2010;25:619-626.
24. Wong VW, Wong GL, Choi PC, et al. Disease progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a prospective study with paired liver biopsies at 3 years. Gut 2010;59:969-974.
25. Makovicky P, Dudova M, Tumova E, Rajmon R, Vodkova Z. Experimental study of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) on a model of starving chickens: is generalization of steatosis accompanied by fibrosis of the liver tissue? Pathol Res Pract 2011;207:151-155.
26. Stanton MC, Chen SC, Jackson JV, et al. Infammatory Signals shift from adipose to liver during high fat feeding and infuence the development of steatohepatitis in mice. J Inflamm (Lond) 2011;8:8.
27. Pais R, Pascale A, Fedchuck L, Charlotte F, Poynard T, Ratziu V. Progression from isolated steatosis to steatohepatitis and fbrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Clin Res Hepatol Gastroenterol 2011;35:23-28.
28. Francque S, Verrijken A, Mertens I, et al. Noncirrhotic human nonalcoholic fatty liver disease induces portal hypertension in relation to the histological degree of steatosis. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2010;22:1449-1457.