Fibrosis
Research from University Hospital yields new data on fibrosis
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, June 9th, 2008
A report, 'Non-invasive evaluation of liver fibrosis using transient elastography,' is newly published data in Journal of Hepatology. According to recent research from Pessac, France, "Transient elastography (TE, FibroScan) is a novel non-invasive method that has been proposed for the assessment of hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic liver diseases, by measuring liver stiffness. TE is a rapid and user-friendly technique that can be easily performed at the bedside or in the outpatient clinic with immediate results and good reproducibility."
"Limitations include failure in around 5% of cases, mainly in obese patients. So far, TE has been mostly validated in...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2008-06-09)
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