Are different cut-off values of liver stiffness assessed by transient elastography according to the etiology of liver cirrhosis for predicting significant esophageal varices?

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 111-115

  Sporea, Ioan ^a   Raţiu, Iulia ^a   Bota, Simona ^a   Şirli, Roxana ^a   Jurchiş, Ana ^a  

^a VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Alcoholic liver cirrhosis; Esophageal varices; Portal hypertension; Transient elastography; Viral liver cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ELASTOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROMANIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880927442     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11152/mu.2013.2066.152.is1ir2     Document Type: Article

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