[HTML][HTML] Preliminary study of sound touch elastography in diffuse thyroid disease in children

L Li, A Zhang, D Chen, BH Taragin, X Luo - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… on liver diseases including liver fibrosis, biliary atresia, livertransient elastography (TE),
point shear wave elastography (… to inflammation and increased vascular growth factor (30). …

[HTML][HTML] Serum biomarkers for liver fibrosis

Z Chen, Y Ma, J Cai, M Sun, L Zeng, F Wu, Y Zhang… - Clinica Chimica …, 2022 - Elsevier
… , a combination of transient elastography with FibroMeter, has been … Connective tissue growth
factor (CTGF) is another regulatory … In biliary atresia patients, serum exosomal lncRNAH19 …

Liver fibrosis: Pathophysiology, pathogenetic targets and clinical issues

M Parola, M Pinzani - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Hepatic macrophages, essential to maintain tissue homeostasis and ensure rapid responses
to hepatic injury, include Kupffer cells (KC, liver resident and self-sustaining macrophages) …

Congestive Hepatopathy: Pathophysiology, Workup, and Imaging Findings with Pathologic Correlation

M Flory, KM Elsayes, A Kielar, C Harmath… - …, 2024 - pubs.rsna.org
… In contrast to capillaries, sinusoids lack connective tissue. … (IL-6)– and vascular endothelial
growth factor (VEGF)–mediated … Studies using transient elastography, acoustic radiation force …

[HTML][HTML] Peri-Operative Liver Fibrosis and Native Liver Survival in Pediatric Patients with Biliary Atresia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

A Jahangirnia, I Oltean, Y Nasr, N Islam… - Pediatric …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… in relation to native liver survival in children who undergo the Kasai operation for biliary atresia
(BA). A … Though we did not measure this parameter in our study, upregulated liver MMP-7 …

[PDF][PDF] Traditional markers in liver disease

G Derosa, P Maffioli - Biomarkers in Liver Disease, 2017 - researchgate.net
… showed a significant positive correlation between serum γ-GT … marker of hepatic fibrosis is
transforming growth factor-β1 (… Performance of transient elastography for the staging of liver

A single gene connects stiffness in glaucoma and the vascular system

T Borrás - Experimental eye research, 2017 - Elsevier
… aortic stiffness as measured by PWV. To investigate the relationship between aortic stiffness
… RhoA pathways, transglutaminase 2 (TGM2) and connective tissue growth factor (CTGF). …

Paediatric liver ultrasound: a pictorial essay

M Di Serafino, R Severino, M Gioioso, E Rossi… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
… Hyperechoic rim, due to peri-portal connective tissue, always … Transient elastography is a
non-invasive technique consisting of … Here we will focus on biliary atresia and choledochal cyst. …

Mechanisms of Fibrosis in Primary Biliary Cholangitis

L Wu, J Ding, NP Zhang, F Li, XP Liu, J Wu - Current Hepatology Reports, 2020 - Springer
… Depending on RELB, the central transcription factor of … in deposition of connective tissue
fibrils in the liver (Fig. 1b). … transient elastography (TE) converts the tissue rigidity to a …

[HTML][HTML] Cirrhosis and autoimmune liver disease: current understanding

R Liberal, CR Grant - World journal of hepatology, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Portal fibroblasts, located in the connective tissue of the … to measure liver stiffness; FibroTest
and transient elastography (TE; … PSC patients, liver stiffness was also shown to correlate with …