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Diagnostic management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a transformational period in the development of diagnostic and predictive tools-a narrative review.

Abstract
NAFLD is an emerging healthcare epidemic that is causing predictable adverse consequences for healthcare systems, societies and individuals. Whilst NAFLD is recognized as a multi-system disease with compound pathways that are both benign and pernicious in their unfolding; NASH is generally understood as a deleterious follow-on condition with path-specific tendencies that progress to cirrhosis, HCC and liver transplantation. Recent evidence is beginning to challenge this interpretation demanding more attention to the personalized nature of the disease and its pathogenesis across multiple different cohorts. This means that we need better diagnostic and prognostic tools not only to capture those 'at risk' disease phenotypes; but for better stratification and monitoring of patients according to their treatment strategies. With the advent of pipeline therapies for NASH underway, the medical profession looks to adopt more accurate non-invasive diagnostic tools that can help to delineate and eliminate NASH histology. This review looks at the search for the killer application revealing this particular moment in time as a transformational period; one that is pushing the boundaries of technology to integrate diverse panels of species through sensitive profiling and multi-omics approaches that cast wide, yet powerful diagnostic nets that have the potential to elucidate pathway specific biomarkers that are personalized and predictable.
AuthorsNatalia Rosso, Adam M Stephenson, Pablo J Giraudi, Claudio Tiribelli
JournalAnnals of translational medicine (Ann Transl Med) Vol. 9 Issue 8 Pg. 727 (Apr 2021) ISSN: 2305-5839 [Print] China
PMID33987425 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
Copyright2021 Annals of Translational Medicine. All rights reserved.

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