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Laurent Castera is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Epidemiology, Hepatology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The research topics addressed by Castera cover a broad spectrum related to liver conditions and metabolic diseases. These topics include:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Liver Diseases and Immunity
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • Diet and metabolism studies

Castera's publication record shows significant contributions to notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Hepatology
  • Liver International
  • JHEP Reports

Their recent papers include the following works:

  • "A new definition for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: An international expert consensus statement" (2020), published in Journal of Hepatology
  • "EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis - 2021 update" (2021), published in Journal of Hepatology
  • "A Phase 3, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Resmetirom in NASH with Liver Fibrosis" (2024), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Advancing the global public health agenda for NAFLD: a consensus statement" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • "Selonsertib for patients with bridging fibrosis or compensated cirrhosis due to NASH: Results from randomized phase III STELLAR trials" (2020), published in Journal of Hepatology

Frequent collaborators in Castera's research include:

  • Emmanuel Tsochatzis
  • Manuel Romero-Gómez
  • Vincent Wai-Sun Wong
  • Philip N. Newsome
  • Jérôme Boursier

This profile reflects a focused research trajectory on liver diseases, especially non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), liver fibrosis, and associated metabolic disorders. Castera's publications demonstrate involvement in clinical guidelines, experimental drug trials, and consensus statements relevant to liver health and its global public health context.

Best Publications

  • Prospective Comparison of Transient Elastography, Fibrotest, APRI, and Liver Biopsy for the Assessment of Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis C

    Laurent Castéra;Julien Vergniol;Juliette Foucher;Brigitte Le Bail

  • A new definition for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: An international expert consensus statement.

    Mohammed Eslam;Philip N. Newsome;Shiv K. Sarin;Quentin M. Anstee

  • Non-invasive evaluation of liver fibrosis using transient elastography ☆

    Laurent Castera;Xavier Forns;Alfredo Alberti

  • Diagnosis of cirrhosis by transient elastography (FibroScan): a prospective study

    J Foucher;E Chanteloup;J Vergniol;L Castéra

  • Pitfalls of liver stiffness measurement: a 5-year prospective study of 13,369 examinations.

    Laurent Castéra;Juliette Foucher;Pierre-Henri Bernard;Françoise Carvalho

  • Noninvasive Assessment of Liver Disease in Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

    Laurent Castera;Mireen Friedrich-Rust;Rohit Loomba

  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis – 2021 update

    Annalisa Berzigotti;Emmanouil Tsochatzis;Jerome Boursier;Laurent Castera

  • WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 1: basic principles and terminology.

    Tsuyoshi Shiina;Kathryn R. Nightingale;Mark L. Palmeri;Timothy J. Hall

  • EFSUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Liver Ultrasound Elastography, Update 2017 (Long Version)

    Christoph F Dietrich;Jeffrey Bamber;Annalisa Berzigotti;Simona Bota

  • Efficacy and safety of selective internal radiotherapy with yttrium-90 resin microspheres compared with sorafenib in locally advanced and inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma (SARAH): an open-label randomised controlled phase 3 trial

    Valérie Vilgrain;Valérie Vilgrain;Helena Pereira;Eric Assenat;Boris Guiu

  • WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations for Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 2: Breast

    Richard G. Barr;Kazutaka Nakashima;Dominique Amy;David Cosgrove

  • Noninvasive methods to assess liver disease in patients with hepatitis B or C.

    Laurent Castera

  • Advancing the global public health agenda for NAFLD: a consensus statement.

    Jeffrey V Lazarus;Henry E Mark;Quentin M Anstee;Juan Pablo Arab

  • Accuracy of liver stiffness measurement for the diagnosis of cirrhosis in patients with chronic liver diseases.

    Nathalie Ganne-Carrié;Marianne Ziol;Victor de Ledinghen;Catherine Douvin

  • Prevalence and factors associated with failure of liver stiffness measurement using FibroScan in a prospective study of 2114 examinations

    Juliette Foucher;Laurent Castéra;Pierre-Henri Bernard;Xavier Adhoute

  • Early detection in routine clinical practice of cirrhosis and oesophageal varices in chronic hepatitis C: comparison of transient elastography (FibroScan) with standard laboratory tests and non-invasive scores.

    Laurent Castéra;Brigitte Le Bail;Françoise Roudot-Thoraval;Pierre-Henri Bernard

  • Liver Ultrasound Elastography: An Update to the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Guidelines and Recommendations.

    Giovanna Ferraioli;Vincent Wai Sun Wong;Laurent Castera;Annalisa Berzigotti

  • Assessment of biopsy-proven liver fibrosis by two-dimensional shear wave elastography: An individual patient data-based meta-analysis.

    Eva Herrmann;Victor de Lédinghen;Christophe Cassinotto;Winnie C.-W. Chu

  • Meta-analyses of FibroTest diagnostic value in chronic liver disease

    Thierry Poynard;Rachel Morra;Philippe Halfon;Laurent Castera

  • Genome-wide association study in BRCA1 mutation carriers identifies novel loci associated with breast and ovarian cancer risk

    Fergus J. Couch;Xianshu Wang;Lesley McGuffog;Andrew Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor de Ledinghen
Victor de Ledinghen Grenoble Alpes University
Valérie Vilgrain
Valérie Vilgrain Université Paris Cité
Christoph F. Dietrich
Christoph F. Dietrich Hirslanden Private Hospital Group
François Durand
François Durand Université Paris Cité
Annalisa Berzigotti
Annalisa Berzigotti University of Bern
Daniel Dhumeaux
Daniel Dhumeaux Grenoble Alpes University
Masatoshi Kudo
Masatoshi Kudo Kindai University
Byung Ihn Choi
Byung Ihn Choi Seoul National University
Christophe Hézode
Christophe Hézode Université Paris Cité
Jeffrey C. Bamber
Jeffrey C. Bamber Institute of Cancer Research

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