[PDF][PDF] To screen or not to screen for NAFLD?

I Sporea - Medical Ultrasonography, 2021 - medultrason.ro
Nonalcoholic Liver Disease (NAFLD) has become the most frequent hepatological entity in
the clinical practice in the developed world. The increasing number of overweight and obese …

Liver fibrosis and steatosis assessment using elastographic techniques: A comparison between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and alcoholic liver disease

C Foncea, I Sporea, R Lupusoru, R Cotrau… - … in Medicine and …, 2022 - umbjournal.org
Objectives Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are
becoming the most common causes of chronic liver diseases and the leading causes of liver …

Noninvasive Assessment of Liver Steatosis with Ultrasound Techniques

G Ferraioli, RG Barr - … Ultrasound for the Assessment of Diffuse …, 2022 - books.google.com
Worldwide, obesity has nearly tripled since 1975.1 The World Health Organization (WHO)
reports that, as of 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults 18 years or older were overweight, and …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of liver steatosis

I Sporea, R Șirli, A Popescu - Ultrasound Elastography, 2019 - intechopen.com
The prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic
steatohepatitis (NASH) is increasing in the modern world. Fatty infiltration of the liver can be …

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: An Abnormal Appearance

BJ Leonard - Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an accumulation of extra fat in the liver cells not
caused by alcohol consumption. This disease is an increasingly common condition and the …

Advances in ultrasound elastography for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

M Yoneda, Y Honda, A Nogami, K Imajo… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - Springer
The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
(NASH) has increased rapidly worldwide, making NAFLD/NASH an important global health …

Conventional ultrasound for diagnosis of hepatic steatosis is better than believed

CF Dietrich, L Shi, A Löwe, Y Dong… - Zeitschrift für …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Background Hepatic steatosis is a condition frequently encountered in clinical practice, with
potential progression towards fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Detection …

A critical appraisal of the use of ultrasound in hepatic steatosis

S Ballestri, F Nascimbeni, S Lugari… - Expert review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) spans steatosis through nonalcoholic
steatohepatitis (NASH), fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). NAFLD …

Liver ultrasound elastography in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A state-of-the-art summary

R Villani, P Lupo, M Sangineto, AD Romano… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a chronic disease which is currently the most
common hepatic disorder affecting up to 38% of the general population with differences …

Which Patients With Fatty Liver Disease on Ultrasound Require a Liver Biopsy?

AJ Sanyal, BM Reid - Curbside Consultation of the Liver, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Over two-thirds of the general population of the United States is either overweight or obese.
Obesity and the metabolic syndrome are the most common risk factors for the development …