Folate Deficiency in the Alcoholic—its Relationship to Clinical and Haematological Abnormalities, Liver Disease and Folate Stores

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Serum type III procollagen peptide in alcoholic liver disease and idiopathic hemochromatosis: Its relationship to hepatic fibrosis, activity of the disease and iron overload

✍ Massimo Colombo; Giorgio Annoni; Maria Francesca Donato; Dario Conte; Dino Marti 📂 Article 📅 1985 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 467 KB

To assess the value of type I11 procollagen peptide (sPIIIP) as a marker of hepatic fibrosis, sera from 73 patients with alcohol-related liver disease and 30 patients with idiopathic hemochromatosis (IHC) were studied by a specific radioimmunoassay. sPIIIP was increased in 87% of 30 patients with ci