Cytokeratin-18 and uric acid predicts disease severity in Taiwanese nonalcoholic steatohepatitis patients

• Jee-Fu Huang ,

  * E-mail: jf71218@gmail.com (JFH); waloch@cc.kmu.edu.tw (WLC)

  Affiliations Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2752-7051

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• Ming-Lun Yeh,

  Affiliations Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Chung-Feng Huang,

  Affiliations Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Ching-I Huang,

  Affiliation Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Pei-Chien Tsai,

  Affiliation Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Chi-Ming Tai,

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Hua-Ling Yang,

  Affiliation Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Chia-Yen Dai,

  Affiliations Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Meng-Hsuan Hsieh,

  Affiliations Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Shinn-Chern Chen,

  Affiliations Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Ming-Lung Yu,

  Affiliations Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Wan-Long Chuang

  * E-mail: jf71218@gmail.com (JFH); waloch@cc.kmu.edu.tw (WLC)

  Affiliations Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Faculty of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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