[The AST/Platelet Ratio Index (APRI) is a simple biochemical index that has been shown to be useful and accurate in about 50% of patients with chronic hepatitis C. We determined if the combination of the APRI and the FIBROSpect II, a commercially available hepatic fibrosis marker that measures 3 components of the extracellular hepatic matrix, would further help distinguish mild from significant fibrosis in a group of patients with chronic hepatitis C.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE