Assessment of fibrosis by transient elastography compared with liver biopsy and morphometry in chronic liver diseases

GLH Wong, VWS Wong, PCL Choi, AWH Chan… - Clinical …, 2008 - Elsevier
Background & Aims: Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) with transient elastography
(Fibroscan) can accurately diagnose advanced liver fibrosis, but its performance in early …

Prevalence, risk factors and causes of discordance in fibrosis staging by transient elastography and liver biopsy

RP Myers, P Crotty, G Pomier‐Layrargues… - Liver …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aims: Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by transient elastography (TE) is
widely used for the noninvasive assessment of fibrosis. Our objectives were to examine the …

Diagnosis of cirrhosis by transient elastography (FibroScan): a prospective study

J Foucher, E Chanteloup, J Vergniol, L Castera… - Gut, 2006 - gut.bmj.com
Background: Transient elastography (FibroScan) is a new, non-invasive, rapid, and
reproducible method allowing evaluation of liver fibrosis by measurement of liver stiffness. In …

Transient elastography compared to serum markers to predict liver fibrosis in a cohort of C hinese patients with chronic hepatitis B

J Jia, J Hou, H Ding, G Chen, Q Xie… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aim Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) using transient
elastography (F ibro S can) is a useful tool to assess fibrosis in various chronic liver …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of liver fibrosis by a noninvasive method of transient elastography and biochemical markers

M Kawamoto, T Mizuguchi, T Katsuramaki… - World Journal of …, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
AIM: To assess the correlation between the fibrotic area (FA) as calculated by a digital image
analysis (DIA), and to compare the diagnostic accuracy of FibroScan to the other existing …

Noninvasive Evaluation of Liver Fibrosis Using Real‐time Tissue Elastography and Transient Elastography (FibroScan)

F Meng, Y Zheng, Q Zhang, X Mu, X Xu… - … of Ultrasound in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The purpose of this study was to assess liver fibrosis with real‐time tissue
elastography and to compare the results with those of transient elastographic (FibroScan; …

Comparison of liver biopsy and transient elastography based on clinical relevance

R Masuzaki, R Tateishi, H Yoshida… - Canadian Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by transient elastography has recently
been validated for the evaluation of liver fibrosis in chronic liver diseases. The present study …

Real-time tissue elastography as a tool for the noninvasive assessment of liver stiffness in patients with chronic hepatitis C

H Morikawa, K Fukuda, S Kobayashi, H Fujii… - Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Background Although histopathological examination by “invasive” liver biopsy remains the
gold standard for evaluating disease progression in chronic liver disease, noninvasive tools …

A meta-analysis of transient elastography for the detection of hepatic fibrosis

J Stebbing, L Farouk, G Panos… - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objectives The use of transient elastography to assess liver stiffness measurement (LSM)
has now become widely available for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis as a rapid, noninvasive …

[PDF][PDF] Transient elastography is unreliable for detection of cirrhosis in patients with acute liver damage

A Sagir, A Erhardt, M Schmitt, D Häussinger - Hepatology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Transient elastography [FibroScan (FS)] is a rapid, noninvasive, and reproducible
method for measuring liver stiffness, which correlates with the degree of liver fibrosis in …