Liver Stiffness
Increased liver stiffness denotes hepatic dysfunction and mortality risk in critically ill non cirrhotic patients at a medical ICU
... and liver stiffness measurements were collected prospec- ...of liver synthesis function), hyaluronic acid (latex agglutination method, Wako Diagnostics, Osaka, Japan, adapted on cobas e601, Roche; as ...
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Assessment of liver stiffness in patients with HCV and mixed cryoglobulinemia undergoing rituximab treatment
... in liver stiffness during and after antiviral treatment in patients with chronic HCV ...of liver stiffness values for monitoring treatment response and in clinical manage- ment of HCV chronic ...
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Impact of hepatitis C virus genotype-4 eradication following direct acting antivirals on liver stiffness measurement
... but liver fibrosis is still an unre- solved ...of liver fibrosis. In this study, we measured liver fibrosis by a special device, FibroScan, which measures stiffness of liver in a ...
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Prognostic value of liver stiffness in HIV/HCV Coinfected patients with decompensated cirrhosis
... both liver stiffness and FIB-4 are non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis, we avoided collinearity by constructing four Table 1 Baseline characteristics of 65 HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with ...
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Ultrasonic assessment of liver stiffness and carotid artery elasticity in patients with chronic viral hepatitis
... grade liver stiffness and fi- brosis showed that fat in the liver is an important factor that affects the accurate measurement of the ARFI value [17, ...their liver, thus affecting the ARFI ...
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Assessment of Liver Stiffness among Chronic Hepatitis C Patients after Oral Antiviral Drugs in Zagazig University Hospitals
... the liver stiffness before and after oral antiviral medication in chronic viral hepatitis c patients attending Zagazig University Hospitals using non- invasive methods like fibroscan and APRI and FIB4 ...
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Liver stiffness assessed by Fibrosis-4 index predicts mortality in patients with heart failure
... only liver fibrosis and/ or congestion resulting in liver ...documented liver disease were excluded, we cannot completely deny the presence of liver ...as liver biopsy, which is not ...
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Progression of liver stiffness predicts clinical events in HIV/HCV coinfected patients with compensated cirrhosis
... LS: Liver stiffness; TE: Transient elastography; PH: Portal hypertension; ESLD: End-stage liver disease; EV: Esophagueal varices; HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus; HCV: Hepatitis C virus; kPA: ...
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Case Report Transient elastography-derived liver stiffness measurements were found to be useful for predicting liver infiltration in a case of mature T-cell neoplasm involving liver dysfunction
... measuring liver stiffness ...the liver and elevated LS values has not been ...the liver, but the infiltrating lesion was not detected by contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) or fluorode- ...
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The inverse effect of meal intake on controlled attenuation parameter and liver stiffness as assessed by transient elastography
... of liver steatosis ...chronic liver disease, including chronic viral hepatitis and NAFLD [9, ...that liver stiffness (LS), as assessed by TE, was af- fected by food consumption from the ...
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Liver stiffness: a novel parameter for the diagnosis of liver disease
... during liver congestion) and is increased during mechanic ...underlying liver fibrosis. The novel pressure-stiffness-fibrosis sequence hypothesis is ...
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Effects of patient factors on noninvasive liver stiffness measurement using acoustic radiation force impulse elastography in patients with chronic hepatitis C
... holic liver disease (ALD), hepatitis B virus (HBV) coinfec- tion, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection, liver abscess, acute hepatitis, extrahepatic cholestasis [31,32], severe hemolysis, ...
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Transient elastography-based risk estimation of hepatitis B virus-related occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma: development and validation of a predictive model
... and liver stiffness value) was tested in a univari- ate ...gender, liver stiffness value, and HBV DNA were statistically significant in univariate analysis (Table ...and liver ...
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Relationship between grey scale sonographic grades of fatty liver and shear wave elastographic values: an observational study
... for liver stiffness) for the diagnosis of fatty liver was analyzed using Cohen’s kappa from the values obtained for liver stiffness is tabulated in Table ...
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ADAPT: an algorithm incorporating PRO C3 accurately identifies patients with NAFLD and advanced fibrosis
... The combination of liver stiffness measurement and NAFLD fibrosis score improves the noninvasive diagnostic accuracy for severe liver fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver d[r] ...
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Prediction of posthepatectomy liver failure using transient elastography in patients with hepatitis B related hepatocellular carcinoma
... In this study, we used a new generation transient elas- tography, FibroTouch® for liver stiffness measurement (LSM) [9, 26], which has enhanced 2D–image-guided positioning function. It’s particularly ...
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HIV infection, viral hepatitis and liver fibrosis among prison inmates in West Africa
... All participants were assessed for liver fibrosis using a portable transient elastography device (Fibroscan 402®, Echosens, Paris) with an M probe. A single device was made available for a two-month period in each ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5467871.pdf
... for liver fibrosis/cirrhosis in SSA, the causes of liver disease are poorly characterized among HIV-infected ...a liver biopsy, which is unavailable outside of major referral centers due to its ...
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Transient elastography for predicting esophageal/gastric varices in children with biliary atresia
... measuring liver stiffness ...but liver stiff- ness values were obtained without ...that liver stiffness measurement is erratic for detecting fibrosis in patients with acute hepatitis ...
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<p>Prospective Comparison of Transient Elastography Using Two Different Devices: Performance of FibroScan and FibroTouch</p>
... without liver disease were ...receive liver stiffness measurement (LSM) with FS and ...nosed liver disease, six patients (15.4%) had alcoholic liver disease, two patients ...known ...
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