Publications by authors named "Carlos Jonnatan Pimentel Barros"
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance-based metabonomic models for non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C: Optimizing the classification of intermediate fibrosis.
Andrea Dória Batista Carlos Jonnatan Pimentel Barros Tássia Brena Barroso Carneiro Costa Michele Maria Gonçalves de Godoy Ronaldo Dionísio Silva
World J Hepatol
January 2018
Aim: To develop metabonomic models (MMs), using H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of serum, to predict significant liver fibrosis (SF: Metavir ≥ F2), advanced liver fibrosis (AF: METAVIR ≥ F3) and cirrhosis (C: METAVIR = F4 or clinical cirrhosis) in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients. Additionally, to compare the accuracy of the MMs with the aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index (APRI) and fibrosis index based on four factors (FIB-4).
Methods: Sixty-nine patients who had undergone biopsy in the previous 12 mo or had clinical cirrhosis were included.