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publication name Real Time Elastography is an Easy Tool for Diagnosis of Liver Fibrosis in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Authors Badawy A. Abdulaziz, Mohamed EL-Tantawy Ibrahim, Medhat A. Khalil, Walid A. Abdel Halim
year 2020
keywords Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Real Time Elastography, FIB-4 Index, NAFLD Fibrosis Score
journal Open Journal of Medical Imaging
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Abstract

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged a major challenge and become the leading indication for liver transplantation. We aimed to assess the applicability and performance of real-time elastography (RTE) in diagnosis of liver fibrosis in patients with NAFLD compared with NAFLD fibrosis score (NFS) and FIB-4 index. Patients and Methods: A prospective case-control study was conducted on 260 subjects attended He￾patology, Gastroenterology and Infectious diseases and Internal Medicine departments in Benha University Hospital from Marsh 20, 2018, to Septem￾ber 1, 2019 and divided into group I included 200 cases with NAFLD and group II included 60 healthy control subjects. Results: There was statistically significant increase in FIB-4 scores between two groups (1.39 ± 1.02 and −0.75 ± 0.32 respectively with p < 0.001), also there was statistically signifi￾cant increase in NAFLD fibrosis score mean ± SD between two groups (−1.74 ± 1.17 and −2.75 ± 0.91 respectively with p < 0.001). Fibrosis stages in NAFLD patients significantly higher than in control group diagnosed by RTE (P = 0.001). There was an agreement between RTE and FIB-4 index (93%) and NAFLD fibrosis score (86%). Diagnostic performance of RTE in advanced liver fibrosis ≥ F3 was assessed in comparing with FIB-4 index show sensitivity 90%, specificity 93.3%, PPV 60%, NPV 98.8% and accuracy 93% with AUC0.917 (p = 0.001) and in comparing with NAFLD fibrosis score sensitivity 52.6%, specificity 93.8%, PPV 66.7%, NPV 98.4% and accuracy 86% with AUC 0.732 (p = 0.002). Conclusion: Real time elastography could be valuable in diagno￾sis of fibrosis in NAFLD especially in cases more than F3 score

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