Assessment of Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis in PBC With FibroScan, MRI, MR-spectroscopy, and Serum Markers

Mireen Friedrich-Rust,C. Muller,Anne Winckler,Susanne Kriener,Eva Herrmann,Julia Holtmeier,Thierry Poynard,Thomas Vogl,Stefan Zeuzem,Renate Hammerstingl,Christoph Sarrazin

Assessment of Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis in PBC With FibroScan, MRI, MR-spectroscopy, and Serum Markers

2010

Mireen Friedrich-Rust
C. Muller
Anne Winckler
Susanne Kriener
Eva Herrmann
Julia Holtmeier
Thierry Poynard
Thomas Vogl
Stefan Zeuzem
Renate Hammerstingl
Christoph Sarrazin

BackgroundIn recent years noninvasive methods have been evaluated for the assessment of liver fibrosis predominantly in patients with viral hepatitis. In this study, transient elastography (FibroScan), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetic resonance (MR)-spectroscopy, and serum markers were com

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Liver biopsy
Elastography
Steatosis
Fatty liver
Fibrosis
In vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Gastroenterology
Magnetic resonance imaging
Transient elastography
Medicine
Internal medicine
Pathology
hepatic fibrosis

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