Palpation is a subjective and non-sharable diagnostic method. Recently, palpation has been
supported and replaced by elastography, which provides a novel parameter of “stiffness” as …

Ultrasound-based elastography techniques have received considerable attention in the last
years for the noninvasive assessment of tissue mechanical properties. These techniques …

Normal liver tissue is soft and pliable. With inflammation, however, many of the cells die and
are replaced by collagenous fibrils and the tissue gets stiffer. The progress is often slow …

Liver elastography offers the possibility of a quick, non-invasive, and painless evaluation of
the liver with immediate results at bedside. Transient elastography is the most validated …

When asked by Springer Nature to publish a first-time book on liver stiffness and its clinical
interpretation, I have been enthusiastic from the very beginning. Bedside measurement of …

The risk and speed of progression from fibrosis to compensated and decompensated
cirrhosis define the prognosis in liver diseases. Therefore, early detection and preventive …

OBJECTIVE. Transient elastography is a rapid, noninvasive, and reproducible approach to
assessment of liver fibrosis by measurement of liver elasticity. However, transient …

Liver biopsy (LB) remains the gold standard for assessing the severity of liver fibrosis;
however, LB is often limited by its invasiveness, sampling error, and intra-/inter-observer …

Objective: Real‐time tissue elastography (RTE) has made it possible to visualize tissue
elasticity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of RTE for the differential …

Elastography is an established technique in the evaluation of chronic liver diseases. While
there is a large clinical experience and data available regarding the performance of …