Liver transplantation outcomes for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

Mohamed A. Chinnaratha, Uthayanan Chelvaratnam, Katherine A. Stuart, Simone I. Strasser, Geoffrey W. McCaughan, Paul Gow, Leon A. Adams, Alan J. Wigg, on behalf of the Australia and New Zealand Liver Transplant Clinical Study Group – 21 April 2014 – An increased liver disease burden has been reported for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSIs) in Australia; however, few proceed to liver transplantation (LT).

Utility and appropriateness of the fatty liver inhibition of progression (FLIP) algorithm and steatosis, activity, and fibrosis (SAF) score in the evaluation of biopsies of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Pierre Bedossa, the FLIP Pathology Consortium – 19 April 2014 – Biopsy is still the gold standard for the diagnosis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis but the definition may vary among pathologists, a drawback especially in evaluation of biopsies for clinical trials. We previously developed a scoring system (steatosis, activity, fibrosis [SAF]) allowing the use of an algorithm (fatty liver inhibition of progression [FLIP]) for the classification of liver injury in morbid obesity.

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