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High Prevalence Of Liver Fibrosis In Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Monoinfection And Human Immunodeficiency Virus Hepatitis-B Co-Infection As Assessed By Shear Wave Elastography: Study At A Teaching Hospital In Kenya, Samuel Gitau, Sudhir Vinayak, Micah Ominde, Rodney Adam, Reena Shah
High Prevalence Of Liver Fibrosis In Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Monoinfection And Human Immunodeficiency Virus Hepatitis-B Co-Infection As Assessed By Shear Wave Elastography: Study At A Teaching Hospital In Kenya, Samuel Gitau, Sudhir Vinayak, Micah Ominde, Rodney Adam, Reena Shah
Imaging & Diagnostic Radiology, East Africa
Objectives:The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of liver fibrosis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) monoinfection versus those with HIV hepatitis-B virus (HBV) co-infection as assessed with shear wave elastography (SWE) in a tertiary sub-Saharan Africa hospital.
Materials and Methods:A total of 105 consecutive patients, 70 with HIV monoinfection and 35 with HIV-HBV co-infection, had liver elastography obtained using SWE to assess for the presence of liver fibrosis the cutoff of which was 5.6 kPa. Assessment of aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI) score (a noninvasive serum biomarker of liver fibrosis) in these patients …