Ethyl Glucuronide in Hair Is an Accurate Biomarker of Chronic Excessive Alcohol Use in Patients With Alcoholic Cirrhosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University Hospitals KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: jef.verbeek@mumc.nl.
• ² Toxicological Center, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
• ³ Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Hospitals KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁴ Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University Hospital of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ⁵ TDM and Toxicology Laboratory, ZNA Stuivenberg, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ⁶ Department of Abdominal Transplantation Surgery, University Hospitals KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁷ Department of Pathology, University Hospitals KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁸ Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University Hospitals KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁹ Toxicological Center, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; TDM and Toxicology Laboratory, ZNA Stuivenberg, Antwerp, Belgium.