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ArticleGlobal pediatric health2020

A Liver Biopsy Validation Pilot Study of Shear Wave Elastography, APRI, FIB-4, and Novel Serum Biomarkers for Liver Fibrosis Staging in Children With Chronic Viral Hepatitis.

Rebecca Mercedes, Jameisha Brown, Charles Minard, Cynthia M Tsai, Sridevi Devaraj, Marthe Munden, Daniel Leung

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Article in Global pediatric health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guideline
  2. Noninvasive Fibrosis Assessment in Chronic Hepatitis C Infection: An Update.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Rebecca MercedesBaylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0855-090X
Jameisha BrownTexas A&M University System, College Station, TX, USA.
Charles MinardBaylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Cynthia M TsaiBaylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Sridevi DevarajBaylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Marthe MundenWake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
Daniel LeungBaylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Baylor College of Medicine · USAtrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · USTexas A&M University System · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As liver biopsy in children poses inherent risks, noninvasive measures of liver fibrosis are needed. This was a cross-sectional, liver biopsy validation pilot study of 16 participants evaluating the ability of shear wave elastography, aspartate transaminase to platelet ratio index (APRI), fibrosis index based on the 4 factors, and novel serum biomarkers to stage liver fibrosis in children with chronic hepatitis B or C. There was very high intrasegmental shear wave speed variation in our participants and little correlation with fibrosis. APRI and monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP-1) were higher in fibrosis stage F2-3 versus F0-1 (

Indexed as

APRIhepatitis Bhepatitis Cliver stiffnessMCP-1pediatric chronic viral hepatitissFasShear wave elastography

Identifiers

PMID32821773
PMCPMC7412911
OpenAlexW3046781141

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