Performance of transient elastography for the staging of liver fibrosis: a meta-analysis.
By M. Friedrich-Rust, M. Ong, S. Martens, Christoph Sarrazin, J. Bojunga, S. Zeuzem, E. Herrmann. Gastroenterology, 2008
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Subfields: Epidemiology, Hepatology
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In Epidemiology
- Asociacion Latinoamericana para el Estudio del Higado
- Laurent Castéra
- M. Kudo
- E. Tsochatzis
- A. Berzigotti
- X. Forns
In Hepatology
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- Laurent Castéra
- M. Kudo
- Andrew K. Burroughs
- F. Piscaglia
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- X. Forns
Citations in the corpus
- Determination of reliability criteria for liver stiffness evaluation by transient elastography (2013, methodology): “,(14) and Friedrich-Rust et al.(15) The detailed results are presented in Tables S4 and S5.”
- Elastography for the diagnosis of severity of fibrosis in chronic liver disease: a meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy. (2011, result): “Furthermore, our meta-analysis confirms that higher transaminase levels influence the accuracy of elastography measurements [57] and”
- WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 3: liver. (2015, background): “84, respectively (Friedrich-Rust et al. 2008).”
- EFSUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Liver Ultrasound Elastography, Update 2017 (Long Version) (2017, background): “In patients with CHC, TE can differentiate absent and mild fibrosis from significant fibrosis and cirrhosis, but is not accurate enough to distinguish between separate stages of fibrosis (F1 – F4) [147 – 149].”
- EASL-ALEH Clinical Practice Guidelines: Non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis. (2015, background): “Based on a meta-analysis, some authors have proposed an optimal cut-off of 13 kPa for the diagnosis of cirrhosis [147].”
- Noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis (2011, background): “The diagnostic accuracy is sufficiently good in identifying significant fibrosis (particularly if the underlying disease is taken into account) and is excellent in identifying liver cirrhosis.(24,25) Table 1.”
- EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: management of hepatitis C virus infection. (2011, background): “TE performs better at detecting cirrhosis than lesser degrees of fibrosis [65,66].”