Prevalence and factors associated with liver steatosis as measured by transient elastography with controlled attenuation parameter in HIV-infected patients

Macı́as, Juan; González, Juan; Tural, Cristina; Ortega-González, E; Pulido, Federico; Rubio, Rafael; Cifuentes, Celia; Díaz‐Menéndez, Marta; Jou, Antoni; Rubio, P.; Burgos, Ángel; A. Pineda, Juan

doi:10.1097/qad.0000000000000248

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Prevalence and factors associated with liver steatosis as measured by transient elastography with controlled attenuation parameter in HIV-infected patients

Published in AIDS • Mar 10, 2014

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Juan Macı́as

Juan González

Cristina Tural

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and factors associated with significant hepatic steatosis (SHS, steatosis involving ≥10% hepatocytes) in HIV-infected patients. DESIGN: A prospective, cross-sectional study. METHODS: Five hundred and five HIV-infected patients were included in this study. All pati...

Subject

Transient elastography

Medicine

Steatosis

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