• Jian Wang, Zhong Chen, Xiaomin Yan, Yue Yang, Yong Liu, Yuxin Chen, Bei Jia, Juan Xia, Yali Xiong, Zhaoping Zhang, Weimao Ding, Rui Huang, and Chao Wu.
• Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, China.
• Discov Med. 2019 Sep 1; 28 (153): 149-158.

ObjectiveThe easy liver fibrosis test (eLIFT) is a novel index to assess advanced liver fibrosis in chronic liver diseases. We aimed to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of eLIFT for advanced liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB).MethodsA total of 294 CHB patients with liver biopsy were enrolled. The diagnostic accuracy of eLIFT for advanced liver fibrosis was evaluated and compared to aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI), fibrosis-4 score (FIB-4), gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase-to-platelet ratio (GPR), and red cell distribution width-to-platelet ratio (RPR) by ROC curves.ResultsThe area under ROC curves (AUROCs) of eLIFT in predicting advanced fibrosis were 0.687 (95%CI 0.621 to 0.753), 0.714 (95%CI 0.631 to 0.798), and 0.633 (95%CI 0.522 to 0.744) in the entire cohort of CHB patients, HBeAg positive CHB patients, and HBeAg negative CHB patients, respectively. The optimal cut-off values of eLIFT for predicting advanced fibrosis in these three groups were 9.5. The eLIFT, as an easy-to-use scoring system, was comparable with APRI, FIB-4, GPR, and RPR in identifying advanced fibrosis in both HBeAg positive CHB and HBeAg negative CHB patients.ConclusionseLIFT as a novel index can predict advanced liver fibrosis with a moderate sensitivity and accuracy in CHB patients. eLIFT, though having similar diagnostic values of advanced liver fibrosis compared to more complex existing tools such as APRI, FIB-4, GPR, and RPR in CHB patients, has the advantage of clarity of generation and ease of application and has the potential of being widely used by hepatologists.

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