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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S5 - E5.2 - NITs In The Diagnosis and Treatment Of Advanced MASH Fibrosis Patients
Description: This conversation explores the challenges with using the current non-invasive tests (NITs) to diagnose patients with F2/F3 advanced MASH fibrosis. If tests today cannot achieve the requisite level of precision, panelists explore other ways to define patient targets. Roger Green starts by recalling that in a recent episode (Season 5 Episode 2), Jeff McIntyre suggested that in the US, the initial patient population may be as small as a few hundred thousand people. Ian Rowe states that current tools are incapable of placing these patients in a narrow diagnostic or therapeutic window. Jörn Schattenberg takes a "pragmatic" a...