Clinically significant portal hypertension is associated with an increased risk of developing
gastro-oesophageal varices and hepatic decompensation. Hepatic venous pressure …

Objective To assess the diagnostic performance of liver stiffness (LS) and spleen stiffness
(SS) measured by point shear wave elastography (pSWE) and 2D shear wave elastography …

METHODS: This is a retrospective study including patients with liver stiffness measurement
(LSM)≥ 10 kPa, no previous decompensation, and available measurements of hepatic …

The natural history of chronic liver disease is characterized by a long asymptomatic or
compensated phase. During this long phase, fibrosis progresses eventually leading to …

Abstract Background and Aims Endoscopy is necessary for assessment of esophageal
varices (EVs) in cirrhotic patients, but its use is limited because of the poor compliance of …

Liver biopsy is the gold standard for evaluating the degree of liver fibrosis in patients with
chronic liver disease. However, due to the many limitations of liver biopsy, there has been …

The study aimed to establish the benefits of using spleen stiffness values measured by two
elastography techniques as noninvasive markers for predicting varices needing treatment …

Portal hypertension is the main driver of complications in patients with advanced chronic
liver disease (ACLD) and is defined by values of hepatic venous pressure gradient …

Purpose Recently, Colecchia et al. reported that by adding a spleen stiffness (SS) criterion
sequentially to the Baveno VI criteria, screening endoscopy could be safely avoided. We …

Background and Aims Monitoring of acute or chronic response to beta-blockers in patients
with liver cirrhosis is based on the measurement of the HVPG. Our aim was to evaluate the …