Serum fibrosis index-based risk score predicts hepatocellular carcinoma in untreated patients with chronic hepatitis B

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Serum fibrosis scores comprised of common laboratory tests have high utility to assess severity of liver fibrosis. We aimed to derive and validate a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) risk score based on serum fibrosis scores to predict HCC in treatment-naïve chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients.

METHODS: Fifteen thousand one hundred eighty-seven treatment-naïve adult CHB patients were identified to form the training cohort in this retrospective study. Individual fibrosis score was included to construct a new HCC prediction score. The score was externally validated in an independent treatment-naïve Korean CHB cohort.

RESULTS: 180/15,187 patients (1.2%) in training cohort and 47/4,286 patients (1.1%) in validation cohort developed HCC during a mean follow-up of 52 and 50 months, respectively. The newly developed HCC risk score, Liang score, is composed of gender, age, hepatitis B virus DNA, fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) index, and ranges from 0 to 22. Area under the time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curve of Liang score was 0.79 (95% confidence interval, 0.70-0.89). A cutoff value of nine provided an extremely high negative predictive value of 99.9% and high sensitivity of 90.0% at 5 years in the validation cohort. Patients with Liang score ≤9 had HCC incidence <0.2% per year in both training and validation cohorts, in whom HCC surveillance might be exempted.

CONCLUSION: A novel HCC risk score, Liang score, based on FIB-4 index, is applicable and accurate to identify treatment-naïve CHB patients with very low risk of HCC to be exempted from HCC surveillance.

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CommentIn: Clin Mol Hepatol. 2021 Jul;27(3):448-450. - PMID 34157831

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Clinical and molecular hepatology - 27(2021), 3 vom: 25. Juli, Seite 499-509

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liang, Lilian Yan [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Hye Won [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Vincent Wai-Sun [VerfasserIn]
Yip, Terry Cheuk-Fung [VerfasserIn]
Tse, Yee-Kit [VerfasserIn]
Hui, Vicki Wing-Ki [VerfasserIn]
Lui, Grace Chung-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Henry Lik-Yuen [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Grace Lai-Hung [VerfasserIn]

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Antiviral Agents
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Fibrosis
Hepatitis B, Chronic
Journal Article
Surveillance

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Date Completed 24.09.2021

Date Revised 24.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Clin Mol Hepatol. 2021 Jul;27(3):448-450. - PMID 34157831

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3350/cmh.2020.0333

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM321901185