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Diagnostic performance of FibroTest, SteatoTest and ActiTest in patients with NAFLD using the SAF score as histological reference.

  • Munteanu M BioPredictive, Paris, France.
  • Tiniakos D Liver Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
  • Anstee Q Liver Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
  • Charlotte F Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpêtrière APHP, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, UMR_S 938 & Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France.
  • Marchesini G Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
  • Bugianesi E Universita Degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.
  • Trauner M Medizinischen Universitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria.
  • Romero Gomez M Valme University Hospital, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain.
  • Oliveira C Department of Gastroenterology (LIM-07), University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Day C Liver Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
  • Dufour JF Université de Berne, Berne, Switzerland.
  • Bellentani S Gastroenterologia, Azienda USL di Modena Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
  • Ngo Y BioPredictive, Paris, France.
  • Traussnig S Medizinischen Universitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria.
  • Perazzo H APHP UPMC Liver Center, Paris, France.
  • Deckmyn O BioPredictive, Paris, France.
  • Bedossa P Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, hôpital Beaujon, University Paris-Diderot, Paris, France.
  • Ratziu V Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpêtrière APHP, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, UMR_S 938 & Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France.
  • Poynard T Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpêtrière APHP, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, UMR_S 938 & Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France. thierry@poynard.com.
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  • 2016-08-24
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  • Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics. - 2016
English BACKGROUND
Blood tests of liver injury are less well validated in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) than in patients with chronic viral hepatitis.


AIMS
To improve the validation of three blood tests used in NAFLD patients, FibroTest for fibrosis staging, SteatoTest for steatosis grading and ActiTest for inflammation activity grading.


METHODS
We pre-included new NAFLD patients with biopsy and blood tests from a single-centre cohort (FibroFrance) and from the multicentre FLIP consortium. Contemporaneous biopsies were blindly assessed using the new steatosis, activity and fibrosis (SAF) score, which provides a reliable and reproducible diagnosis and grading/staging of the three elementary features of NAFLD (steatosis, inflammatory activity) and fibrosis with reduced interobserver variability. We used nonbinary-ROC (NonBinAUROC) as the main endpoint to prevent spectrum effect and multiple testing.


RESULTS
A total of 600 patients with reliable tests and biopsies were included. The mean NonBinAUROCs (95% CI) of tests were all significant (P < 0.0001): 0.878 (0.864-0.892) for FibroTest and fibrosis stages, 0.846 (0.830-0.862) for ActiTest and activity grades, and 0.822 (0.804-0.840) for SteatoTest and steatosis grades. FibroTest had a higher NonBinAUROC than BARD (0.836; 0.820-0.852; P = 0.0001), FIB4 (0.845; 0.829-0.861; P = 0.007) but not significantly different than the NAFLD score (0.866; 0.850-0.882; P = 0.26). FibroTest had a significant difference in median values between adjacent stage F2 and stage F1 contrarily to BARD, FIB4 and NAFLD scores (Bonferroni test P < 0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
In patients with NAFLD, SteatoTest, ActiTest and FibroTest are non-invasive tests that offer an alternative to biopsy, and they correlate with the simple grading/staging of the SAF scoring system across the three elementary features of NAFLD: steatosis, inflammatory activity and fibrosis.
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