Supported by a Project Grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia(NHMRC#496602 to GAR and PJL);Dr.Tamara Pereira is Supported by the Phillip Bushell Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Gastroenterological Society of Australia;Associate Professor Grant A Ramm is Supported by a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship(NHMRC#552409)
Cholestatic liver disease causes significant morbidity and mortality in children.The diagnosis and management of these diseases can be complicated by an inability to detect early stages of fibrosis and a lack of adequ...
Supported by the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research(IZKF) of the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
To evaluate prospectively 4 selected serum fibrosis markers (tenascin, hyaluronan, collagen Ⅵ, TIMP-1) before, during and 12 mo after IFN treatment of children with chronic hepatitis B. METHODS: Forty-seven consec...