Assessment of liver fibrosis with the gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase to platelet ratio: a multicentre validation in patients with HBV infection

Gut. 2018 Oct;67(10):1903-1904. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2017-315299. Epub 2017 Nov 3.

Xiao-Jie Lu^#^{1

2}, Xiu-Hui Li^#³, Zhao-Xin Yuan^#^{4

5}, Hai-Ying Sun⁵, Xiao-Chen Wang^{1

2}, Xiaolong Qi⁶, Xin Zhang⁷, Beicheng Sun^{1

2}

¹ Department of Liver Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
² Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of NanjingUniversity Medical School, Nanjing, China.
³ Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
⁴ Changchun Medical College, Changchun, Jilin, China.
⁵ Department of Hepatology, Hepatobiliary Disease Hospital of Jilin Province, Changchun, Jilin, China.
⁶ Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Liver Fibrosis, Institute of Hepatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
⁷ Department of Medical Imaging, The Fourth Hospital of Huai'an, Huai'an, China.

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: chronic hepatitis B; diagnostic performance; gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase to platelet ratio; liver fibrosis; non-invasive assessment.

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