{"title":"Current and Investigational Biomarkers of Liver Disease in HIV-HBV Co-infection.","authors":"Keyur Patel, Giada Sebastiani","doi":"10.1007/s11904-025-00756-x","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Coinfection with HIV-HBV results in increased rate of liver disease progression through immune and metabolic dysfunction. Additional metabolic risks in ageing people with HIV (PwHIV) contribute to hepatic necroinflammation and fibrogenesis. There are now several blood-based and imaging non-invasive tests (NIT) that are increasingly available as an alternative to biopsy to estimate hepatic fibrosis.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>There are few studies for NITs and fibrosis in PwHIV-HBV. Simple tests such as FIB-4 and APRI have poor diagnostic utility for significant fibrosis or disease monitoring in PwHIV-HBV. Transient elastography (TE) has less variability, and may be useful to exclude advanced fibrosis in patients with low viral load and normal liver enzymes. Combination TE and blood-based NITs with concordant results may be useful, but optimal diagnostic test thresholds have not been established. Interpretation of current NITs in PwHIV-HBV should consider context of use, along with clinical and biochemical variables that limit diagnostic accuracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":10930,"journal":{"name":"Current HIV/AIDS Reports","volume":"22 1","pages":"46"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current HIV/AIDS Reports","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11904-025-00756-x","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"INFECTIOUS DISEASES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Purpose of review: Coinfection with HIV-HBV results in increased rate of liver disease progression through immune and metabolic dysfunction. Additional metabolic risks in ageing people with HIV (PwHIV) contribute to hepatic necroinflammation and fibrogenesis. There are now several blood-based and imaging non-invasive tests (NIT) that are increasingly available as an alternative to biopsy to estimate hepatic fibrosis.
Recent findings: There are few studies for NITs and fibrosis in PwHIV-HBV. Simple tests such as FIB-4 and APRI have poor diagnostic utility for significant fibrosis or disease monitoring in PwHIV-HBV. Transient elastography (TE) has less variability, and may be useful to exclude advanced fibrosis in patients with low viral load and normal liver enzymes. Combination TE and blood-based NITs with concordant results may be useful, but optimal diagnostic test thresholds have not been established. Interpretation of current NITs in PwHIV-HBV should consider context of use, along with clinical and biochemical variables that limit diagnostic accuracy.
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This journal intends to provide clear, insightful, balanced contributions by international experts that review the most important, recently published clinical findings related to the diagnosis, treatment, management, and prevention of HIV/AIDS.
We accomplish this aim by appointing international authorities to serve as Section Editors in key subject areas, such as antiretroviral therapies, behavioral aspects of management, and metabolic complications and comorbidity. Section Editors, in turn, select topics for which leading experts contribute comprehensive review articles that emphasize new developments and recently published papers of major importance, highlighted by annotated reference lists. An international Editorial Board reviews the annual table of contents, suggests articles of special interest to their country/region, and ensures that topics are current and include emerging research. Commentaries from well-known figures in the field are also provided.