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Evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Elastography and Transient Elastography for Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis Assessments in the Liver Transplant Setting

The Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022
Background: Liver graft fibrosis affects long-term graft and patient survival in liver transplant recipients. Transient elastography and magnetic resonance elastography are widely used for the assessment of liver fibrosis in routine clinical practice ...
Zeynep Melekoglu Ellik, Ilkay S. Idilman, Aysun Kartal, Yasemin Balaban, Atilla H. Elhan, Musturay Karcaaltincaba, Hasan Ozkan, Ramazan Idilman   +7 more
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Correlation of hepatic transient elastography measurements and abdominal adiposity in children: A cross-sectional study

Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2023
Background: Transient elastography is a non-invasive assessment of steatosis (measured as the controlled attenuation parameter, [CAP]) and fibrosis (measured as liver stiffness measurement, [LSM]) in patients with pediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver ...
Yii-Shiuan Lee, Shih-Hsi Song, Tzee-Chung Wu, Shang-Liang Wu, Ching-Feng Huang   +4 more
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Application of transient elastography in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [PDF]

Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2020
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is currently the most common chronic liver disease worldwide. Although it has become one of the leading causes of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in the Western world, the proportion of NAFLD patients ...
Xinrong Zhang, Grace Lai-Hung Wong, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong   +2 more
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Validation of transient elastography cut-points for assessing the stage of liver fibrosis in children

Лечащий Врач, 2021
Liver fibrosis is a dynamic process of deposition in the liver of connective tissue in various forms of chronic pathology of this organ. Currently, a liver biopsy remains the gold standard for diagnosing fibrosis, but this procedure is associated with ...
E. A. Kulebina, A. N. Surkov, K. A. Kulikov, A. S. Potapov, E. E. Bessonov   +4 more
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Non-invasive fibrosis algorithms are clinically useful for excluding cirrhosis in prisoners living with hepatitis C

PLoS ONE, 2020
Background and aims Prison-based HCV treatment rates remain low due to multiple barriers, including accessing transient elastography for cirrhosis determination.
Timothy Papaluca, Anne Craigie, Lucy McDonald, Amy Edwards, Michael MacIsaac, Jacinta A. Holmes, Matthew Jarman, Tanya Lee, Hannah Huang, Andrew Chan, Mark Lai, Vijaya Sundararajan, Joseph S. Doyle, Margaret Hellard, Mark Stoove, Jessica Howell, Paul Desmond, David Iser, Alexander J. Thompson, Chen-Hua Liu   +19 more
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Elastography of the Liver in Wilson’s Disease

Diagnostics, 2023
Staging of liver fibrosis is of special significance in Wilson’s disease as it determines the patient’s prognosis and treatment. Histopathological examination is a standard method for fibrosis assessment; however, non-invasive methods like transient ...
Piotr Nehring, Jowita Szeligowska, Adam Przybyłkowski   +2 more
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Transient elastography in clinical detection of liver cirrhosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2016
Background/Aims: Transient elastography is a noninvasive method for measuring liver fibrosis. This meta-analysis assesses the diagnostic performance of transient elastography of detecting liver cirrhosis in patients with liver disease.
Xiao-Xia Geng, Ren-Gang Huang, Jian-Mei Lin, Nan Jiang, Xing-Xiang Yang   +4 more
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Two-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography versus Transient Elastography: A Non-Invasive Comparison for the Assessment of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C

Diagnostics, 2020
In recent years, several non-invasive methods have been developed for staging liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C. A 2D-Shear wave elastography (SWE) technique has been recently introduced on the EPIQ 7 US system (ElastQ), but its ...
Rosanna Villani, Francesco Cavallone, Antonino Davide Romano, Francesco Bellanti, Gaetano Serviddio   +4 more
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An ultrasound transient elastography system with coded excitation

BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2017
Background Ultrasound transient elastography technology has found its place in elastography because it is safe and easy to operate. However, it’s application in deep tissue is limited.
Xianfen Diao, Jing Zhu, Xiaonian He, Xin Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Siping Chen, Weixiang Liu   +6 more
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MULTIPARAMETER ULTRASOUND FOR LIVER AND PANCREAS IN MODERN CONDITIONS

Клиническая практика, 2016
The Aim. To determine the value of multiparametric ultrasonic methods of research in the frame-work of comprehensive elastography.Materials and methods.
T G Morozova, A V Borsukov, V G Pleshkov
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