Andres Duarte-Rojo, Bachir Taouli, Daniel H Leung, Deborah Levine, Tarek Nayfeh, Bashar Hasan, Yahya Alsawaf, Samer Saadi, Abdul Mounaem Majzoub, Apostolos Manolopoulos, Samir Hafar, Ayca Dundar, M Hassan Murad, Don C Rockey, Mouaz Alsawas, Richard K Sterling
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Transient elastography (TE), shear-wave elastography (SWE), and/or magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), each providing liver stiffness measurement (LSM), are the most studied imaging-based noninvasive liver disease assessment (NILDA) techniques. To support the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases guidelines on NILDA, we summarized the evidence on the accuracy of these LSM methods to stage liver fibrosis (F). APPROACH AND RESULTS: A comprehensive search for studies assessing LSM by TE, SWE, or MRE for the identification of significant fibrosis (F2-4), advanced fibrosis (F3-4), or cirrhosis (F4), utilizing histopathology as standard of reference by liver disease etiology in adults or children from inception to April 2022 was performed...
March 15, 2024: Hepatology: Official Journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases