J Gastrointestin Liver Dis June 2007 Vol.16 No 2, 173-174 Address for correspondence: 1 Bedossa et al. found the best diagnostic value for discriminating between F0-F1 and F2-F4 METAVIR that can be obtained for the liver biopsy versus the entire liver is 0.90 AUROC for a 20mm nonfragmented liver biopsy. 2 Regev et al. suggested that an adequate non fragmented liver biopsy sample contain more th...

Liver biopsy has been in use for more than a century for diagnosis and staging of acute and chronic liver diseases. Several serum markers and panels offer the opportunity to assess the extent of liver disease noninvasively and spare some patients the risks associated with percutaneous liver biopsy, but only a few of the noninvasive serum markers allow the determination of different stages of fi...

Background: Providing information to the patients before liver biopsy level of patient during procedure.To reduce anxiety level, coping used as an procedure may decrease and can improve tolerance alternatives. There are two types present: Monitoring style- Individuals who seek in response stressful situation Blunting avoids informationin situation. Methods: Convenient sampling was enroll 80 pat...