Usefulness of virtual touch quantification for staging liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C, and factors affecting liver stiffness measurement failure compared with liver biopsy

ConclusionsVirtual touch quantification is a non‐invasive, simple method that is more accurate for staging liver fibrosis than the FIB‐4 index and APRI. However, when the SCD is longer than 17.5 mm, there may be measurement failures.

Source: Hepatology Research - January 15, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Natsumi Tsukano, Shiho Miyase, Tatsuhiko Saeki, Keiko Mizobe, Hirofumi Iwashita, Nobuyuki Arima, Shigetoshi Fujiyama Tags: Original Article Source Type: research