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Detecting hepatitis C. (Clinical Capsules).
Several widely used biochemical markers can accurately and nonivasively detect hepatitis C in patients without significant fibrosis, reported Dr. Xavier Forns of the University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and his colleagues.
They developed a scoring system to classify 351 consecutive patients based on four independent predictors of fibrosis: age, [gamma]-glutamyl transpeptidase level, platelet count, and cholesterol level. After validating ...
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