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GUT
卷 70, 期 10, 页码 1946-1953出版社
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-322976
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- NIEHS [5P42ES010337]
- NCATS [5UL1TR001442]
- NIDDK [U01DK061734, R01DK106419, P30DK120515, R01DK121378, R01DK124318]
- NHLBI [P01HL147835]
- DOD PRCRP [W81XWH-18-2-0026]
The study demonstrated that the combination of MRE and FIB-4 showed high diagnostic accuracy in identifying patients with NAFLD who have stage 2 or higher fibrosis, making them suitable candidates for pharmacological therapy.
Objective Patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with >= stage 2 fibrosis are at increased risk for liver-related mortality and are candidates for pharmacological therapies for treatment of NAFLD. The aim of this prospective cohort study is to examine the diagnostic accuracy of MR elastography (MRE) combined with fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) in diagnosing >= stage 2 fibrosis (candidates for pharmacological therapies). Design This is a cross-sectional analysis of a prospective cohort (University of California at San Diego (UCSD)-NAFLD) including 238 consecutive patients with contemporaneous MRE and biopsy-proven NAFLD. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis-Clinical Research Network-Histologic Scoring System was used to assess histology. The radiologist and pathologist were blinded to clinical, pathological and imaging data, respectively. Receiver operating characteristics (ROCs) were determined to examine the diagnostic accuracy of MRE and FIB-4 for diagnosis of >= stage 2 fibrosis in NAFLD. We then validated these findings in an independent validation cohort derived from Yokohama City University in Japan (Japan-NAFLD Cohort; N=222 patients). Results In the UCSD-NAFLD (training) Cohort, MRE demonstrated a clinically significant diagnostic accuracy for the detection of >= stage 2 fibrosis with an area under the ROC curve (AUROC) of 0.93 (95% CI 0.90 to 0.97) vs FIB-4 with an AUROC of 0.78 (95% CI 0.71 to 0.85), which was both clinically and statistically significant (p<0.0001). We then combined MRE with FIB-4 (MRE >= 3.3 kPa and FIB-4 =1.6) to develop a clinical prediction rule to rule in >= stage 2 fibrosis patients which had positive predictive value (PPV) of 97.1% (p<0.02) in the UCSD-NAFLD cohort (AUROC of 0.90 (95% CI 0.85 to 0.95)) which remained significant at PPV of 91.0% (p<0.003) in the Japan-NAFLD Cohort (AUROC of 0.84 (95% CI 0.78 to 0.89)). Conclusion MRE combined with FIB-4 (MEFIB) index may be used for non-invasive identification of candidates for (>= stage 2 fibrosis) pharmacological therapy among patients with NAFLD with a high PPV.
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