Table 1.
Study | Yr | No. of patients | Age (yr) | Follow-up (yr) | Case of cirrhosis | Progression of fibrosis (n) | Case of liver transplantation (n) |
(n) | |||||||
Cross-sectional studies | |||||||
Kinugasa et al[17] | 1984 | 299 | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A | N/A |
Schwimmer et al[16] | 2003 | 43 | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A | N/A |
Suzuki et al[15] | 2005 | 1 | 12 | N/A | 1 | N/A | N/A |
Schwimmer et al[18] | 2005 | 100 | Range 2-18 | N/A | 3 | N/A | N/A |
Alkhouri et al[19] | 2012 | 203 | Mean 12.4 | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A |
Longitudinal studies | |||||||
Molleston et al[14] | 2002 | 2 | 10 and 14 | N/A | 2 | 2/2 | None |
Feldstein et al[4] | 2009 | 66 | Mean 13.9 | 6.4 | 2 | 4/5 | 2 |
(5 followed longitudinally) | |||||||
A-Kader et al[21] | 2008 | 106 | Range 7-19 | 2.3 | 2 | 7/18 | N/A |
(18 followed longitudinally) | |||||||
Lavine et al[22] | 2012 (preliminary report) | 58 | Range 8-17 | 1.8 | N/A | 15/58 | N/A |
Brunt et al[23] | 2014 (preliminary report) | 102 | Range 11-17 | 2.2 | N/A | 20/102 | N/A |
Alkhouri et al[24] | 2015 (preliminary report) | 330 | 4-40 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 14/330 |
N/A: Not available.