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Janaína Luz Narciso-Schiavon

Researcher at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Publications -  101
Citations -  1144

Janaína Luz Narciso-Schiavon is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatitis C & Cirrhosis. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 94 publications receiving 991 citations. Previous affiliations of Janaína Luz Narciso-Schiavon include Federal University of São Paulo.

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Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection

Tatiana Martins, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2011 - 
TL;DR: Serao discutidos aspectos relacionados a distribuicao da infeccao pelo HCV de acordo com as faixas etarias e tambem os principais fatores de risco para a hepatite C.
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Single-centre validation of the EASL-CLIF consortium definition of acute-on-chronic liver failure and CLIF-SOFA for prediction of mortality in cirrhosis.

Pedro Eduardo Soares e Silva, +8 more
- 01 May 2015 - 
TL;DR: The ACLF definition and the CLIF‐SOFA Score recently proposed by the EASL‐CLIF Consortium are validated in a cohort of patients admitted for acute decompensation (AD) of cirrhosis.
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Non-invasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C

Leonardo de Lucca Schiavon, +2 more
- 21 Mar 2014 - 
TL;DR: The different noninvasive methods that are currently available for the evaluation of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C, their advantages, limitations and application in clinical practice are discussed.
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Optimized cutoffs improve performance of the aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index for predicting significant liver fibrosis in human immunodeficiency virus/hepatitis C virus co‐infection

Roberto J. Carvalho-Filho, +6 more
- 01 Apr 2008 - 
TL;DR: The diagnostic value of modified cutoffs for aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index (APRI) to predict significant liver fibrosis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients is assessed.
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Acute phase proteins for the diagnosis of bacterial infection and prediction of mortality in acute complications of cirrhosis.

César Lazzarotto, +7 more
- 01 Jul 2013 - 
TL;DR: CRP and PCT were reliable markers of bacterial infection in subjects admitted due to complications of liver cirrhosis and higher levels of these tests are related to short-term mortality in those patients.