Effect of severity of steatosis as assessed ultrasonographically on hepatic vascular indices in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 200-206

  Mohammadi, Afshin ^a   Ghasemi Rad, Mohammad ^a   Zahedi, Hengameh ^a   Toldi, Gergely ^b   Alinia, Tahereh ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Non alcoholic fatty liver; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PORTAL VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052845198     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Kuczmarski RJ, Johnson CL. Overweight and obesity in the United States: prevalence and trends, 1960-1994. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1998; 22: 39-47.
2. Angulo P, Keach JC, Batts KP, Lindor KD. Independent predictors of liver fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Hepatology 1999; 30: 1356-1362.
3. Marchesini G, Bugianesi E, Forlani G, et al. Nonalcoholic fatty liver, steatohepatitis, and the metabolic syndrome. Hepatology 2003; 37: 917-923.
4. Yu AS, Keeffe EB. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Rev Gastroenterol Disord 2002; 2: 11-19.
5. Shin DS, Jeffrey RB, Desser TS. Pearls and pitfalls in hepatic ultrasonography. Ultrasound Q 2010; 26: 17-25.
6. Needleman L, Kurtz AB, Rifkin MD, Cooper HS, Pasto ME, Goldberg BB. Sonography of diffuse benign liver disease: accuracy of pattern recognition and grading. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1986; 146: 1011-1015.
7. Saverymuttu SH, Joseph AE, Maxwell JD. Ultrasound scanning in the detection of hepatic fibrosis and steatosis. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) 1986; 292: 13-15.
8. Clark JM, Brancati FL, Diehl AM. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Gastroenterology 2002; 122: 1649-1657.
9. Clark JM. The epidemiology of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in adults. J Clin Gastroenterol 2006; 40 Suppl 1: S5-10.
10. Bayard M, Holt J, Boroughs E. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Am Fam Physician 2006; 73: 1961-1968.
11. Dietrich CF, Lee JH, Gottschalk R, et al. Hepatic and portal vein flow pattern in correlation with intrahepatic fat deposition and liver histology in patients with chronic hepatitis C. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1998; 171: 437-443.
12. Oguzkurt L, Yildirim T, Torun D, Tercan F, Kizilkilic O, Niron EA. Hepatic vein Doppler waveform in patients with diffuse fatty infiltration of the liver. Eur J Radiol 2005; 54: 253-257.
13. Karabulut N, Kazil S, Yagci B, Sabir N. Doppler waveform of the hepatic veins in an obese population. Eur Radiol 2004; 14: 2268-2272.
14. Mihmanli I, Kantarci F, Yilmaz MH, et al. Effect of diffuse fatty infiltration of the liver on hepatic artery resistance index. J Clin Ultrasound 2005; 33: 95-99.
15. Balci A, Karazincir S, Sumbas H, Oter Y, Egilmez E, Inandi T. Effects of diffuse fatty infiltration of the liver on portal vein flow hemodynamics. J Clin Ultrasound 2008; 36: 134-140.
16. Erdogmus B, Tamer A, Buyukkaya R, et al. Portal vein hemodynamics in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Tohoku J Exp Med 2008; 215: 89-93.
17. Mohammadinia AR, Bakhtavar K, Ebrahimi-Daryani N, et al. Correlation of hepatic vein Doppler waveform and hepatic artery resistance index with the severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. J Clin Ultrasound 2010; 38: 346-352.
18. Zekanovic D, Ljubicic N, Boban M, et al. Doppler ultra-sound of hepatic and system hemodynamics in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. Dig Dis Sci 2010; 55: 458-466.
19. Hizli S, Koçyigit A, Arslan N, et al. Hepatic artery resistance in children with obesity and fatty liver. Indian J Pediatr 2010; 77: 407-411.
20. Uzun H, Yazici B, Erdogmus B, et al. Doppler waveforms of the hepatic veins in children with diffuse fatty infiltration of the liver. Eur J Radiol 2009; 71: 552-556.
21. Ljubicić N, Duvnjak M, Rotkvić I, Kopjar B. Influence of the degree of liver failure on portal blood flow in patients with liver cirrhosis. Scand J Gastroenterol 1990; 25: 395-400.
22. Taourel P, Blanc P, Dauzat M, et al. Doppler study of mesenteric, hepatic, and portal circulation in alcoholic cirrhosis: relationship between quantitative Doppler measurements and the severity of portal hypertension and hepatic failure. Hepatology 1998; 28: 932-936.
23. Berzigotti A, Casadei A, Magalotti D, et al. Renovascular impedance correlates with portal pressure in patients with liver cirrhosis. Radiology 2006; 240: 581-586.
24. Joseph AE, Saverymuttu SH, al-Sam S, Cook MG, Maxwell JD. Comparison of liver histology with ultrasonography in assessing diffuse parenchymal liver disease. Clin Radiol 1991; 43: 26-31.
25. Fishbein M, Castro F, Cheruku S, et al. Hepatic MRI for fat quantitation: its relationship to fat morphology, diagnosis, and ultrasound. J Clin Gastroenterol 2005; 39: 619-625.
26. Allan PL, Dubbins PA, Pozniak MA, McDicken WN. (Eds) 2000. Clinical Doppler ultrasound, Churchill Levingstone, 2000; 81-97.