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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S3-E54.1 - Utilizing Best Practices in Diagnostics
Description: Sven Francque begins this conversation by discussing Laurent Castera’s paper comparing a range of NIT diagnostic tests: MAST, FAST, MEFIB, FIB-4 and NFS. When introducing the paper, Sven shares two items that Mazen Noureddin did not cover in an earlier preview. Professor Castera and his team used fairly low ALT cutoffs of 20 for women and 30 for men as the sole liver entry criterion for the study. The implication of this was to produce a relatively unbiased population sample in which more than 50% of patients exhibited NASH. Stephen Harrison joins to share data from his presentation on the FASN in...