No association of serum ferritin levels with advanced liver fibrosis in untreated German patients with autoimmune hepatitis.
Bastian EngelElmar JaeckelRichard TaubertPublished in: BMC gastroenterology (2022)
In the January 2022 issue of BMC Gastroenterology, Chen et al. report an association between serum ferritin levels and the presence of advanced liver fibrosis in patients with treatment-naïve autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). The odds ratio for ferritin in this study was marginally above 1.0. We analyzed our own published data from a German cohort for an association between ferritin levels and the presence of advanced fibrosis in treatment-naïve AIH and were not able to validate the findings of Cheng et al.