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Application of guidelines for the management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in three prospective cohorts of HIV‐monoinfected patients

Sebastiani, G., Cocciolillo, S., Mazzola, G., Malagoli, A., Falutz, J., Cervo, A., Petta, S., Pembroke, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2600-2034, Ghali, P., Besutti, G., Franconi, I., Milic, J., Cascio, A. and Guaraldi, G. 2020. Application of guidelines for the management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in three prospective cohorts of HIV‐monoinfected patients. HIV Medicine 21 (2) , pp. 96-108. 10.1111/hiv.12799

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Abstract

Objectives Current guidelines recommend use of a diagnostic algorithm to assess disease severity in cases of suspected nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We applied this algorithm to HIV‐monoinfected patients. Methods We analysed three prospective screening programmes for NAFLD carried out in the following cohorts: the Liver Disease in HIV (LIVEHIV) cohort in Montreal, the Modena HIV Metabolic Clinic (MHMC) cohort and the Liver Pathologies in HIV in Palermo (LHivPa) cohort. In the LIVEHIV and LHivPa cohorts, NAFLD was diagnosed if the controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) was ≥ 248 dB/m; in the MHMC cohort, it was diagnosed if the liver/spleen Hounsfield unit (HU) ratio on abdominal computerized tomography scan was < 1.1. Medium/high‐risk fibrosis category was defined as fibrosis‐4 (FIB‐4) ≥ 1.30. Patients requiring specialist referral to hepatology were defined as either having NAFLD and being in the medium/high‐risk fibrosis category or having elevated alanine aminotransferase (ALT). Results A total of 1534 HIV‐infected adults without significant alcohol intake or viral hepatitis coinfection were included in the study. Of these, 313 (20.4%) patients had the metabolic comorbidities (obesity and/or diabetes) required for entry in the diagnostic algorithm. Among these patients, 123 (39.3%) required specialist referral to hepatology, according to guidelines. A total of 1062 patients with extended metabolic comorbidities (any among obesity, diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidaemia) represented most of the cases of NAFLD (79%), elevated ALT (75.9%) and medium/high‐risk fibrosis category (75.4%). When the algorithm was extended to these patients, it was found that 341 (32.1%) would require specialist referral to hepatology. Conclusions According to current guidelines, one in five HIV‐monoinfected patients should undergo detailed assessment for NAFLD and disease severity. Moreover, one in ten should be referred to hepatology. Expansion of the algorithm to patients with any metabolic comorbidities may be considered.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Publisher: Wiley
ISSN: 1464-2662
Date of Acceptance: 2 August 2019
Last Modified: 07 Nov 2022 10:03
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/131024

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