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#329 Curing Hepatitis C: A Primary Care Primer

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Fibrosis Assessment - Is That Good Enough?

The best way to stage somebody is using elastography. We still use the metaver staging system, which puts an f zero, f one, f two, f three, f four label on the patient. If they're in the middle of their hybrosis stages, that tends to correlate pretty tightly with what your hybrosis stage is going to be. And just the final statement about that is that, oknow, the transient elastography, or fibre scand, would be my preferred way to age somebody, am I right? It's because the fibrosi and the apre are very, you know, negative, but at the margins for serosis can have

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