Diagnostics

Ultrasound Provides Noninvasive Way To Detect Liver Fibrosis In HCV Patients

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, July 9th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Doctors frequently use liver biopsies to diagnose liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C patients, but medical investigators in Japan may have discovered a new, noninvasive way to assess fibrosis in these patients.

The new technique uses ultrasound imaging, according to Mami Hirata and colleagues at Ehime University, and relies on measurements of blood flow velocity to produce a diagnosis about the extent of fibrosis.

Eighty patients with chronic liver disease were enrolled in a study of the new technique, including 19 with diagnosed liver cirrhosis, and 61 others with chronic hepatitis. The researchers also...

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