AST/platelet ratio index associates with progression to hepatic failure and correlates with histological fibrosis stage in Japanese patients with primary biliary cirrhosis

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1443-1445

  Joshita, Satoru ^a   Umemura, Takeji ^a   Ota, Masao ^a   Tanaka, Eiji ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLAGOGUE;

ADULT; AGED; AST PLATELET RATIO INDEX; BLOOD CELL RATIO; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LETTER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BLOOD; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CHOLAGOGUES AND CHOLERETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 84922781877     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: 16000641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.07.036     Document Type: Letter

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