The role of elastography in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
| Autor: | F. Pizzolante, Gianludovico Rapaccini, Nicoletta De Matthaeis, Maria Assunta Zocco, Maria Elena Ainora, Antonio Gasbarrini, Luca Miele, Antonio Grieco, A. Liguori, Laura Riccardi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Liver Cirrhosis
medicine.medical_specialty Settore MED/12 - GASTROENTEROLOGIA Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Biopsy Review Disease Type 2 diabetes Chronic liver disease Gastroenterology Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Internal medicine Diabetes Mellitus Internal Medicine medicine Humans medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Settore MED/09 - MEDICINA INTERNA Fatty liver Hepatology medicine.disease Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Liver biopsy Elasticity Imaging Techniques Elastography Steatohepatitis business Type 2 |
| Zdroj: | Minerva gastroenterology. 67(2) |
| ISSN: | 2724-5365 |
| Popis: | Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide and its prevalence is even higher in patients with risk factors such as type 2 diabetes and obesity. Liver biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosis of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), particularly for the assessment of fibrosis stage that is a key prognostic factor. Noninvasive methods for assessment of liver fibrosis are a huge need in contemporary hepatology in order to stratify patient's risk of advanced and progressive liver disease. In this perspective different imaging techniques have been developed in last decades and showed high performance in liver fibrosis evaluation. Strengths and weaknesses of all imaging methods are summarized in this review. |
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