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SUBMITTER: Molleken C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2895500 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mölleken Christian C Sitek Barbara B Henkel Corinna C Poschmann Gereon G Sipos Bence B Wiese Sebastian S Warscheid Bettina B Broelsch Christoph C Reiser Markus M Friedman Scott L SL Tornøe Ida I Schlosser Anders A Klöppel Günter G Schmiegel Wolff W Meyer Helmut E HE Holmskov Uffe U Stühler Kai K
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 20090401 4
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Hepatic cirrhosis is a life-threatening disease arising from different chronic liver disorders. One major cause for hepatic cirrhosis is chronic hepatitis C. Chronic hepatitis C is characterized by a highly variable clinical course, with at least 20% developing liver cirrhosis within 40 years. Only liver biopsy allows a reliable evaluation of the course of hepatitis C by grading inflammation and staging fibrosis, and thus serum biomarkers for hepatic fibrosis with high sensiti ...[more]