Liver Fibrosis Evaluation Using Real-time Shear Wave Elastography in Hepatitis C-Monoinfected and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Hepatitis C-Coinfected Patients

Conclusions— Shear wave elastography of the liver is an effective noninvasive predictor of liver fibrosis in patients with HCV. There was no significant difference between monoinfected and coinfected patients; hence, the same cutoff values can be used for both groups. Combination of SWE with the fibrosis-4 score leads to higher accuracy, although at the expense of inconclusive results in some patients.

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Source: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine - May 26, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Verlinden, W., Bourgeois, S., Gigase, P., Thienpont, C., Vonghia, L., Vanwolleghem, T., Michielsen, P., Francque, S. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research