Purpose To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of shear-wave elastography (SWE) in
identifying different degrees of fibrosis in a cohort of consecutive children and adolescents …

Background Pediatric patients with liver disease require noninvasive monitoring to evaluate
the risk of fibrosis progression. This study aimed to identify the significant factors affecting …

Background While liver biopsy remains the gold standard, given the procedure risks and
sampling errors, there is a need for reliable noninvasive biomarkers of hepatic fibrosis …

Objectives Our aims in this study were as follows:(1) to determine the cutoff value that can
distinguish between advanced liver fibrosis and normal liver tissue for two different …

Background Although fibrosis is the main determinant of liver stiffness, other disease-related
factors usually disregarded in studies on liver elastography, such as inflammation and …

Objective To assess the diagnostic performance of shear-wave elastography for determining
the severity of liver fibrosis in children and adolescents. Methods An electronic literature …

Background: Shear-wave elastography (SWE) is a novel noninvasive method that involves
application of local mechanical compression on soft tissue using focused ultrasonography …

Purpose To evaluate the feasibility of using supersonic shear-wave elastography (SSWE) in
children and normal values of liver stiffness with the use of control patients of different ages …

Objectives: Noninvasive tests for the evaluation of liver fibrosis are particularly helpful in
children to avoid general anesthesia and potential complications of invasive tests. We aimed …

Featured Application In this review we present and discuss the published literature on the
use of ultrasound-based liver elastography in children. The published data show that all the …