Day C P
Centre for Liver Research, Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK.
Gut. 2002 May;50(5):585-8. doi: 10.1136/gut.50.5.585.
Although non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) was considered relatively uncommon prior to the middle of the last decade, over the past three years there has been an explosion of studies on various aspects of NASH with one study reporting that after hepatitis C, NASH was the most common diagnosis in patients presenting largely with persistent abnormalities of liver function tests. The field of NASH has come a long way in a relatively short space of time. This article considers advances in knowledge that have arisen as a result of these studies and highlights areas for further work.
尽管在过去十年中叶之前,非酒精性脂肪性肝炎(NASH)被认为相对不常见,但在过去三年里,关于NASH各个方面的研究呈爆发式增长。有一项研究报告称,除丙型肝炎外,NASH是肝功能检查持续异常的患者中最常见的诊断结果。在相对较短的时间内,NASH领域已经取得了长足的进展。本文探讨了这些研究带来的知识进步,并强调了有待进一步开展工作的领域。