Liver stiffness measurement by acoustic radiation force impulse is useful in predicting the presence of esophageal varices or high-risk esophageal varices among patients with HCV-related cirrhosis

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1175-1182

  Morishita, Naoki ^a   Hiramatsu, Naoki ^a   Oze, Tsugiko ^a   Harada, Naoki ^a   Yamada, Ryoko ^a   Miyazaki, Masanori ^a   Yakushijin, Takayuki ^a   Miyagi, Takuya ^a   Yoshida, Yuichi ^a   Tatsumi, Tomohide ^a   Kanto, Tatsuya ^b   Takehara, Tetsuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic radiation force impulse; Esophageal varices; HCV related cirrhosis; Liver stiffness; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE IMAGING; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RIGIDITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; EVALUATION STUDY; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIROLOGY;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84905272611     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-013-0877-z     Document Type: Article

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