… liver stiffness to assess fibrosis. Studies in adults have shown that inflammation increases
stiffness, … of inflammation to liver stiffness measurements (LSMs) in children/young adults. …

… young children. Second, patients with a variety of underlying diseases and a wide range of
liver … SI in the measurement of liver SWE in children and young adults reduced measurement …

… may be influenced by liver stiffness, and this possibility is not fully assessed in this study.
Third, patient-specific factors that might influence liver stiffness and agreement between …

… Laboratory markers of liver fibrosis [… liver fibrosis stage, blinded to clinical and MRI data.
Spearman rank-order correlation was calculated between MRE liver stiffness and METAVIR liver …

… on liver stiffness and bile acid metabolism in a cohort of children and young adults with CF.
… Our data show that ETI treatment negatively affects liver stiffness in children with CF and …

… classify MR elastography-derived liver stiffness by integrating clinically available features …
liver images from children and young adults with known or suspected pediatric chronic liver …

… children and young adults. In addition, we aimed to identify and validate an additional liver
stiffness measurement cut point to detect cirrhosis (F4) in children and young adults. Although …

… liver stiffness measurements by MR elastography, this does not explain the discrepancy in
the performance of MR elastography for identification of liver stiffness in patients with fatty liver …

… liver stiffness did not predict the severity of fatty liver disease in children and young adults. …
Our results in a pediatric and young adult population with NAFLD are also discrepant from …

… The rationale used in this study allowed us to detect one or more abnormal BMPs in 57%
(290/505) of the studied population comprised of relatively young adults (37.1 ±13.5), although …