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Five Fibrosis Biomarkers Together with Serum Ferritin Level to Diagnose Liver Fibrosis and Cirrhosis
- Source :
- Clinical laboratory. 64(10)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- BACKGROUND Liver fibrosis is a dynamic procedure that results from an irregularity between fibrogenesis and fibrolysis. After time this procedure can lead to cirrhosis of the liver. Liver fibrosis and cirrhosis assessment is very important for both therapeutic decisions and prognostic evaluations. In this study, we tried to use serum ferritin (SF) together with five fibrosis tests (Age-Platelet index (API), aspartate aminotransferase to alanine aminotransferase ratio (AAR), AST to platelet ratio index (APRI), Fibrosis 4 score (FIB-4), and fibro-quotient (Fibro-Q)) to assess liver fibrosis and cirrhosis and estimate possible correlation between inflammation and SF. METHODS This study was carried out on eighty-eight patients infected with HCV and twenty healthy subjects as a control. Complete blood count (CBC), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), antiHCV antibody, detection of HCV RNA by real-time PCR, and serum ferritin (SF) were assessed. Then API, ARR, APRI, FIB-4, and Fibro-Q were calculated. Different fibrosis stages (mild fibrosis stage (F1), moderate fibrosis stage (F2), severe fibrosis stage (F3), cirrhotic stage (F4)) were assessed using transient elastography by Fibro Scan®. RESULTS FIB-4 index was significantly elevated (p < 0.01) with the progression of liver fibrosis at F1, F2, F3, and F4 when compared to healthy control group. The APRI score elevation between F0 and F3 and between F0 and F4 was significant (p < 0.01). SF was elevated in all fibrosis stages and significantly (p < 0.01) at F3 and F4 compared to controls. CONCLUSIONS APRI coupled with SF should be the best reliable biomarkers for liver cirrhosis. Simultaneously, from our data SF involved in all stages of inflammation. Therefore, down regulation of ferritin in the early stage of fibrosis should be helpful in decreasing the inflammatory effect of ferritin.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Blood Platelets
Liver Cirrhosis
medicine.medical_specialty
Cirrhosis
Hepacivirus
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Gastroenterology
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Fibrosis
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Aspartate Aminotransferases
Stage (cooking)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
biology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Platelet Count
Complete blood count
Alanine Transaminase
Hepatitis C Antibodies
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Ferritin
Liver
ROC Curve
Ferritins
biology.protein
Biomarker (medicine)
RNA, Viral
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Antibody
business
Transient elastography
Biomarkers
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14336510
- Volume :
- 64
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical laboratory
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f783c8bee156f5ea8b629f86257cbe2e