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Detecting hepatitis C. (Clinical Capsules).

Internal Medicine News

| November 15, 2002 | Evans, Jeff | COPYRIGHT 2002 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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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