Transient elastography as a screening tool for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in a community-based population aged over 45 years

Roulot, Dominique; Coste, J.; Buyck, Jean-François; Warzocha, U.; Gambier, Nicolas; Czernichow, S.; Le Clésiau, Hervé; Beaugrand, Michel

doi:10.1136/gut.2010.221382

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Transient elastography as a screening tool for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in a community-based population aged over 45 years

Published in Gut • Nov 10, 2010

Authors:

Dominique Roulot

J. Coste

Jean-François Buyck

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) has been used to measure fibrosis in patients with various types of chronic liver diseases. However, its usefulness as a screening procedure in apparently healthy people had not been evaluated to date. METHODS: 1358 subjects >45 years old from a general ...

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Transient elastography

Cirrhosis

Medicine

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