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Validation of Hepa-index as a non-invasive biomarkers panel for assessment of hepatic fibrosis in Egyptians with chronic hepatitis C

Mohamed Alboraie, Kerstin Schütte, Marwa Khairy, Marwa Elsharkawy, Noha Asem, Fathy Elghamry, Helmy Shalaby, Gamal Esmat and Peter Malfertheiner
Saudi Medical Journal November 2017, 38 (11) 1137-1142; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.11.21220
Mohamed Alboraie
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alboraie, Elghamry, Shalaby), Al-Azhar University, from the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology (Khairy, Esmat), Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Elsharkawy), Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Asem), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and from Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (Schütte, Malfertheiner), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Kerstin Schütte
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alboraie, Elghamry, Shalaby), Al-Azhar University, from the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology (Khairy, Esmat), Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Elsharkawy), Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Asem), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and from Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (Schütte, Malfertheiner), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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Marwa Khairy
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alboraie, Elghamry, Shalaby), Al-Azhar University, from the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology (Khairy, Esmat), Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Elsharkawy), Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Asem), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and from Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (Schütte, Malfertheiner), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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Marwa Elsharkawy
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alboraie, Elghamry, Shalaby), Al-Azhar University, from the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology (Khairy, Esmat), Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Elsharkawy), Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Asem), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and from Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (Schütte, Malfertheiner), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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Noha Asem
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alboraie, Elghamry, Shalaby), Al-Azhar University, from the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology (Khairy, Esmat), Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Elsharkawy), Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Asem), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and from Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (Schütte, Malfertheiner), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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Fathy Elghamry
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alboraie, Elghamry, Shalaby), Al-Azhar University, from the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology (Khairy, Esmat), Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Elsharkawy), Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Asem), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and from Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (Schütte, Malfertheiner), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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Helmy Shalaby
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alboraie, Elghamry, Shalaby), Al-Azhar University, from the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology (Khairy, Esmat), Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Elsharkawy), Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Asem), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and from Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (Schütte, Malfertheiner), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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Gamal Esmat
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alboraie, Elghamry, Shalaby), Al-Azhar University, from the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology (Khairy, Esmat), Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Elsharkawy), Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Asem), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and from Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (Schütte, Malfertheiner), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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Peter Malfertheiner
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vol. 38 no. 11 1137-1142
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.11.21220
PubMed 
29114703

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received June 7, 2017
  • Accepted August 31, 2017
  • Published online November 1, 2017.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Mohamed Alboraie, MD, MRCP(UK)⇑,
  2. Kerstin Schütte, MD, PhD,
  3. Marwa Khairy, MD, PhD,
  4. Marwa Elsharkawy, MD, PhD,
  5. Noha Asem, MD, PhD,
  6. Fathy Elghamry, MD, PhD,
  7. Helmy Shalaby, MD, PhD,
  8. Gamal Esmat, MD, PhD and
  9. Peter Malfertheiner, MD, PhD
  1. From the Department of Internal Medicine (Alboraie, Elghamry, Shalaby), Al-Azhar University, from the Department of Tropical Medicine and Hepatology (Khairy, Esmat), Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Elsharkawy), Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Asem), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, and from Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases (Schütte, Malfertheiner), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mohamed Alboraie, Department of Internal Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. E-mail: alboraie{at}azhar.edu.eg ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8490-9822.
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