Diagnostic modalities for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and associated fibrosis

Hepatology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 349-360

  Younossi, Zobair M ^a   Loomba, Rohit ^b   Anstee, Quentin M ^c   Rinella, Mary E ^d   Bugianesi, Elisabetta ^e   Marchesini, Giulio ^f   Neuschwander Tetri, Brent A ^g   Serfaty, Lawrence ^h   Negro, Francesco ⁱ   Caldwell, Stephen H ^j   Ratziu, Vlad ^k   Corey, Kathleen E ^l   Friedman, Scott L ^m   Abdelmalek, Manal F ⁿ   Harrison, Stephen A ^o   Sanyal, Arun J ^p   Lavine, Joel E ^q   Mathurin, Philippe ^r   Charlton, Michael R ^s   Goodman, Zachary D ^a   Chalasani, Naga P ^t   Kowdley, Kris V ^u   George, Jacob ^v   Lindor, Keith ^w   more..

^a Department of Medicine and Betty and Guy Beatty Center for Integrated Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^h GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^j PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^k MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^l MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ Pinnacle Clinical Research   (United States)

^o VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^q LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^s INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^t NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^u SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^w ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COLLAGEN;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIPIDOMICS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; METABOLOMICS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

BIOMARKERS; COLLAGEN; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE;

EID: 85045842086     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.29721     Document Type: Review

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