A review on the effect of external fields on solidification, melting and heat transfer enhancement of phase change materials

Y Wu, X Zhang, X Xu, X Lin, L Liu - Journal of Energy Storage, 2020 - Elsevier
The long phase transition time and poor thermophysical properties of phase change
materials inhibits the wide application of phase change energy storage technology, which is …

EFSUMB guidelines and recommendations on the clinical use of liver ultrasound elastography, update 2017 (long version)

CF Dietrich, J Bamber, A Berzigotti… - Ultraschall in der …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
We present here the first update of the 2013 EFSUMB (European Federation of Societies for
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology) Guidelines and Recommendations on the clinical use …

Hepatitis b and c

KR Mysore, DH Leung - Clinics in Liver Disease, 2018 - liver.theclinics.com
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections represent a major global
public health and economic burden, with an estimated 257 million and 71 million people …

EFSUMB guidelines and recommendations on the clinical use of liver ultrasound elastography, update 2017 (short version)

CF Dietrich, J Bamber, A Berzigotti… - Ultraschall in der …, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
We present here the first update of the 2013 EFSUMB (European Federation of Societies for
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology) Guidelines and Recommendations on the clinical use …

Quantification of serum matrix metallopeptide 7 levels may assist in the diagnosis and predict the outcome for patients with biliary atresia

JF Wu, YM Jeng, HL Chen, YH Ni, HY Hsu… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To assess the diagnostic and prognostic usefulness of the serum matrix
metallopeptidase-7 (MMP-7) level for biliary atresia in infants with cholestasis after …

Practical approach to imaging diagnosis of biliary atresia, Part 1: prenatal ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, and postnatal ultrasound

M Napolitano, S Franchi-Abella, MB Damasio… - Pediatric …, 2021 - Springer
We present a practical approach to imaging in suspected biliary atresia, an inflammatory
cholangiopathy of infancy resulting in progressive fibrosis and obliteration of extrahepatic …

[PDF][PDF] Transient elastography is useful in diagnosing biliary atresia and predicting prognosis after hepatoportoenterostomy

JF Wu, CS Lee, WH Lin, YM Jeng, HL Chen, YH Ni… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the utility of transient elastography (TE) for diagnosing biliary atresia (BA) in
cholestatic infants and predicting the outcome of BA. Forty‐eight cholestatic infants (9‐87 …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound for the diagnosis of biliary atresia: from conventional ultrasound to artificial intelligence

W Zhou, L Zhou - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biliary atresia is an aggressive liver disease of infancy and can cause death without timely
surgical intervention. Early diagnosis of biliary atresia is critical to the recovery of bile …

Prospective assessment of ultrasound shear wave elastography for discriminating biliary atresia from other causes of neonatal cholestasis

JR Dillman, FW DiPaola, SJ Smith, RA Barth… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To prospectively assess the diagnostic performance of ultrasound shear wave
elastography (SWE) and hepatobiliary laboratory biomarkers for discriminating biliary …

Ultrasound shear wave elastography: does it add value to gray-scale ultrasound imaging in differentiating biliary atresia from other causes of neonatal jaundice?

JK Sandberg, Y Sun, Z Ju, S Liu, J Jiang, M Koci… - Pediatric …, 2021 - Springer
Background Neonatal/infantile jaundice is relatively common, and most cases resolve
spontaneously. However, in the setting of unresolved neonatal cholestasis, a prompt and …