American Association of Clinical Endocrinology clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in primary care and …

K Cusi, S Isaacs, D Barb, R Basu, S Caprio… - Endocrine Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To provide evidence-based recommendations regarding the diagnosis and
management of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis …

Cigarette smoking and liver diseases

D Marti-Aguado, A Clemente-Sanchez, R Bataller - Journal of hepatology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cigarette smoking is a preventable risk factor for premature morbidity and mortality. A history
of smoking is observed in approximately 40% of patients with liver disease, while a growing …

How to perform shear wave elastography. Part I

G Ferraioli, RG Barr, A Farrokh, M Radzina… - Medical …, 2022 - medultrason.ro
We recently introduced a series of papers describing how to do certain techniques. This
article is the first part of a review of shear wave elastography (SWE). It reports the principles …

Dunnigan lipodystrophy syndrome: French National Diagnosis and Care Protocol (PNDS; Protocole National de Diagnostic et de Soins)

H Mosbah, B Donadille, C Vatier, S Janmaat… - Orphanet Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Dunnigan syndrome, or Familial Partial Lipodystrophy type 2 (FPLD2; ORPHA
2348), is a rare autosomal dominant disorder due to pathogenic variants of the LMNA gene …

[HTML][HTML] Liver stiffness not fatty liver disease is associated with atrial fibrillation: the Rotterdam study

LA van Kleef, Z Lu, MA Ikram, NMS de Groot… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Fatty liver disease has become the most prevalent chronic liver disease
globally and is linked to cardiovascular disease, including arrhythmias. However, there have …

Transient Elastography–Assessed Hepatic Steatosis and Fibrosis Are Associated With Body Composition in the United States

A Unalp-Arida, CE Ruhl - Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims We examined transient elastography assessed hepatic steatosis and
fibrosis distributions and relationships with body composition in a representative United …

Characterization of hepatic steatosis using controlled attenuation parameter and MRI‐derived proton density fat fraction in living donor liver transplantation

RH Zhuang, AK Weinstock, S Ganesh… - Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background The increasingly favorable outcomes of live donor liver transplant warrant
development of screening techniques to expand current donor pool. Transient elastography …

Association between arterial hypertension and liver outcomes using polygenic risk scores: a population-based study

F Åberg, K Kantojärvi, V Männistö, A But, V Salomaa… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Arterial hypertension (HTA) is associated with liver disease, but causality remains unclear.
We investigated whether genetic predisposition to HTA is associated with liver disease in …

A guide to estimating the reference range from a meta-analysis using aggregate or individual participant data

L Siegel, MH Murad, RD Riley… - American journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Clinicians frequently must decide whether a patient's measurement reflects that of a healthy
“normal” individual. Thus, the reference range is defined as the interval in which some …

A sequential approach using the age‐adjusted fibrosis‐4 index and vibration‐controlled transient elastography to detect advanced fibrosis in Korean patients with non …

DH Lee, SU Sung, YK Lee, IH Lim… - Alimentary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Background and Aims Vibration‐controlled transient elastography (VCTE) has
shown good diagnostic performance in predicting fibrosis stages in patients with non …