Serum hyaluronic acid as a noninvasive marker of hepatic fibrosis in chronic hepatitis c patients

• Main Authors: Soheir M Abd-Elghany (Author), Eman E Ahmed Ibrahem (Author), Samy Z El-Sayed (Author), Sara Mohammed (Author), Amal A Morsy (Author)
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• Udgivet: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are often asymptomatic with few clinical signs of liver disease. Recognition of the presence of fibrosis or cirrhosis is difficult without liver biopsy, but with the availability of effective treatments, such as interferon, and the p...