Evaluation of Side Effects and Safety Profile of Liver Biopsy

Traditionally liver biopsy has been the gold standard in evaluation of chronic liver diseases and just recently few technics of assessing liver fibrosis have replaced liver biopsy in some instances [2]. Although the etiology of most of chronic liver diseases could be diagnosed by available biochemical, serologic, immunologic and molecular examination but histologic evaluation still has a close relation to treatment and control of chronic liver diseases [3] and in fact liver biopsy and histologic evaluation constitute an important part of control and monitoring of chronic liver diseases [4].