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Shinn-Chern Chen

Researcher at Kaohsiung Medical University

Publications -  42
Citations -  1048

Shinn-Chern Chen is an academic researcher from Kaohsiung Medical University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatitis C virus & Hepatitis C. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 41 publications receiving 928 citations. Previous affiliations of Shinn-Chern Chen include Academia Sinica.

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Insulin resistance predicts response to peginterferon-alpha/ribavirin combination therapy in chronic hepatitis C patients

TL;DR: Clinical application of pretreatment HOMA-IR could enable treatment outcome to be predicted and treatment regimens to be determined, especially among 'difficult-to-treat' patients.
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Hepatitis C virus infection as a risk factor for non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis in Taiwan.

TL;DR: It is shown that hepatitis B and C virus infection act independently and synergistically in the development of non‐alcoholic liver cirrhosis among Chinese in Taiwan.
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The incidence and risks of liver biopsy in non-cirrhotic patients: An evaluation of 3806 biopsies

TL;DR: Over the past years, the debatable issue of liver biopsy has mainly focused on the safety and suitability of a shorter observation time with respect to cost savings, and Beddy et al even shortened their observation time to 1 hour and indicated that only one haemorrhagic complication occurred within one hour amongst 500 liverBiopsy occasions.
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Incidence and clinical outcome of icteric type hepatocellular carcinoma

TL;DR: The incidence of the rare cases of icteric type hepatocellular carcinoma (IHCC) is elucidated through a retrospective study and the clinical outcomes of IHCC cases were analyzed.