The influence of aminotransferase levels on liver stiffness assessed by Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Elastography: A retrospective multicentre study

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 762-768

  Bota, Simona ^a   Sporea, Ioan ^a   Peck Radosavljevic, Markus ^b   Sirli, Roxana ^a   Tanaka, Hironori ^c   Iijima, Hiroko ^c   Saito, Hidetsugu ^d   Ebinuma, Hirotoshi ^d   Lupsor, Monica ^e   Badea, Radu ^e   Fierbinteanu Braticevici, Carmen ^f   Petrisor, Ana ^f   Friedrich Rust, Mireen ^g   Sarrazin, Christoph ^g   Takahashi, Hirokazu ^h   Ono, Naofumi ⁱ   Piscaglia, Fabio ^j   Marinelli, Sara ^j   D'Onofrio, Mirko ^k   Gallotti, Anna ^k   Salzl, Petra ^b   Popescu, Alina ^a   Danila, Mirela ^a   more..

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

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^f CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^h SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ Eguchi Hospital   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Elastography; Aminotransferase levels; Liver fibrosis; Liver stiffness; Transient Elastography

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE ELASTOGRAPHY; ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BODY MASS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DELTA AGENT HEPATITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE (ARFI) ELASTOGRAPHY; AMINOTRANSFERASE LEVELS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPSY; COHORT STUDIES; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84882249291     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: 18783562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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