Department of Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Goda Aleknavičiūtė-Valienė
Goda Aleknavičiūtė-Valienė
Center of Laboratory Medicine,Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania
Hepatic cirrhosis is a major health problem across the world, causing high morbidity and mortality. This disease has many etiologies, yet the result of chronic hepatic injury is hepatic fibrosis causing cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, as the liver’s architecture is progressively destroyed. While liver biopsy is currently the gold standard for fibrosis staging, it has significant disadvan...
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Kepler University Hospital Linz, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Linz, Austria
Sebastian Strasser,
Sebastian Strasser
Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Josef Tomasits
Josef Tomasits
Kepler University Hospital Linz, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Linz, Austria
Creatinine and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) are first-line laboratory parameters in the diagnosis of various renal diseases. In recent decades, cystatin C (cysC) has furthered the laboratory repertoire regarding renal status assessment and has been implemented in many clinical guidelines. Accordingly, with the establishment of cysC as a renal routine biomarker, further opportunities...
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