Iranzu Ezcurra, Ángela Puente, Antonio Cuadrado, Ibai Tamayo, Paula Iruzubieta, María Teresa Arias-Loste, Francisco José González, Raúl Pellón, Sara Sánchez, Juan Crespo, Mercedes Acebo, Marcos López-Hoyos, Rocío Pérez, Amalia Cuesta, Ángela Antón, Víctor Echavarría, Emilio Fábrega, Javier Crespo, Jose Ignacio Fortea
BACKGROUND: Preliminary evidence suggests that inherited hypercoagulable disorders can lead to an increased risk of significant liver fibrosis. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the prevalence of significant fibrosis in patients with inherited thrombophilia, assessed by using liver stiffness (LS), and to compare this prevalence to that found in a large population-based cohort from the same region. METHODS: This was a single-center, cross-sectional study...
November 28, 2023: United European Gastroenterology Journal