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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Dimitrios S. Karagiannakis, Theodoros Voulgaris, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Panagiota Ioannidou, Evangelos Cholongitas, Jiannis Vlachogiannakos, George Papatheodoridis
Summary: The study aimed to investigate the feasibility and correlation of liver stiffness measurements using 2D-shear wave elastography and transient elastography in patients with chronic liver disease. The results showed a strong correlation between the two methods, but differences in feasibility were observed in obese patients.
JOURNAL OF DIGITAL IMAGING
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Alan Lee, Dong Jin Joo, Woong Kyu Han, Hyeon Joo Jeong, Min Jung Oh, Yu Seun Kim, Young Taik Oh
Summary: The study found that the SWV of donor kidneys is not correlated with histological parameters, but is associated with age, gender, BMI, and measurement depth.
Review
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Domenico Albano, Mariachiara Basile, Salvatore Gitto, Carmelo Messina, Stefano Longo, Stefano Fusco, Ziga Snoj, Silvia Gianola, Silvia Bargeri, Greta Castellini, Luca Maria Sconfienza
Summary: This study compares pathological and healthy tendons using shear-wave elastography (SWE) technique.
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Masashi Hirooka, Yohei Koizumi, Ryo Yano, Kotarou Sunago, Takao Watanabe, Osamu Yoshida, Yoshio Tokumoto, Masanori Abe, Yoichi Hiasa
Summary: The FAST score using both VCTE and US-elastography showed similar diagnostic accuracy in identifying advanced non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Cut-off values of <= 0.35 and >= 0.67 had high sensitivity and specificity for ruling out and diagnosing the condition, respectively. Overall, the FAST score demonstrated good reproducibility across different echo equipment and probes.
HEPATOLOGY RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Davide Roccarina, Laura Iogna Prat, Giada Pallini, Marta Guerrero Misas, Elena Buzzetti, Francesca Saffioti, Francesco M. Arico, Anna Mantovani, Evangelia Koutli, Atul Goyale, Matteo Rosselli, Tu Vinh Luong, Massimo Pinzani, Emmanuel A. Tsochatzis
Summary: This study compared liver stiffness measurements between ElastPQ and F-TE in patients with NAFLD, showing excellent correlation between the two techniques, especially for lower LSM. ElastPQ demonstrated similar diagnostic accuracy to F-TE in staging liver fibrosis in patients with available liver histology.
LIVER INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
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Engineering, Biomedical
Lorne W. Hofstetter, Henrik Odeen, Bradley D. Bolster, Douglas A. Christensen, Allison Payne, Dennis L. Parker
Summary: This study presents a novel MR shear wave elastography technique that combines transient acoustic radiation force impulses with sinusoidal-shaped MR displacement encoding. An analytic expression for calculating shear wave speed in a heterogeneous medium was derived, and the feasibility of using this technique was confirmed experimentally. The study demonstrated the accuracy of the method in measuring shear wave speed values in different mediums, showing potential applications in clinical settings.
PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Jiali Yang, Jiawu Li, Guilin Ye, Yan Luo
Summary: The study highlighted that ViTE demonstrates good stability and high consistency in diagnosing liver fibrosis, comparable to SWE and STE. Combining ViTE and STE can enhance the specificity of disease diagnosis without adding extra cost, potentially improving cost effectiveness.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Flavia Fernandes, Juliana Piedade, Gabriela Freitas, Philippe Area, Ricardo Santos, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Valdilea Veloso, Gustavo Pereira, Hugo Perazzo
Summary: This study evaluated the agreement and accuracy of point shear-wave elastography (p-SWE) and 2D shear-wave elastography (2D-SWE) for liver fibrosis staging. The results showed satisfactory correlation between p-SWE and 2D-SWE with transient elastography (TE). p-SWE seemed to be more accurate than 2D-SWE in identifying patients with more advanced fibrosis.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Maciej K. Janik, Beata Kruk, Benedykt Szczepankiewicz, Konrad Kostrzewa, Joanna Raszeja-Wyszomirska, Barbara Gornicka, Frank Lammert, Piotr Milkiewicz, Marcin Krawczyk
Summary: The study demonstrates that liver and spleen 2D-SWE are reliable complementary methods for diagnosing advanced fibrosis in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). Spleen 2D-SWE appears to be less influenced by inflammation and could aid in fibrosis assessment in therapy-naive patients or those with active hepatitis.
LIVER INTERNATIONAL
(2021)
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Ilias Gatos, Spyros Yarmenitis, Ioannis Theotokas, John Koskinas, Emmanuel Manesis, Spyros P. Zoumpoulis, Pavlos S. Zoumpoulis
Summary: This study evaluates the performance of a recently introduced commercial alternative of ultrasound elastography (USE) called Visual Transient Elastography (ViTE) for the diagnosis of chronic liver disease (CLD). The results show that ViTE performs comparably to established USE methods in staging CLD.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY
(2022)
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Pediatrics
Sylviane Hanquinet, Celine Habre, Meryle Laurent, Mehrak Anooshiravani, Seema Toso
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate spleen stiffness measurements in children, showing that normal values do not significantly differ among different ages and are not affected by probe orientation.
PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Xia-Li Wang, Shu Lin, Guo-Rong Lyu
Summary: Changes in tissue stiffness can be identified earlier than clinical features, and elastography techniques provide valuable noninvasive measurement of mechanical properties. Ultrasound elastography plays a critical role in obstetrics and gynecology, especially for uterine tumor diagnosis, preterm birth prediction, and intrauterine insemination.
INSIGHTS INTO IMAGING
(2022)
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Suzanne R. Sharpton, Nobuharu Tamaki, Ricki Bettencourt, Egbert Madamba, Jinho Jung, Amy Liu, Cynthia Behling, Mark A. Valasek, Rohit Loomba
Summary: In a prospective study including more than 100 adults with NAFLD, VCTE was found to be more accurate than 2D-SWE in detecting fibrosis; however, these modalities are comparable in assessing for higher stages of fibrosis.
THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES IN GASTROENTEROLOGY
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Jeong-Ju Yoo, Sang Gyune Kim, Young Seok Kim
Summary: This study evaluated the usefulness of two different types of 2-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) for predicting liver fibrosis stages compared to transient elastography (TE), and found that 2D-SWE with LOGIQ S8 and E9 are useful non-invasive tools for predicting significant fibrosis and liver cirrhosis, showing similar diagnostic abilities to TE.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Jon Nielsen, Mette Skalshoi Kjaer, Allan Rasmussen, Deepthi Chiranth, Gro Linno Willemoe, Birthe Merete Henriksen, Lotte Borgwardt, Mia Klinten Grand, Lise Borgwardt, Vibeke Brix Christensen
Summary: USe, TE and MRe have good discriminatory ability for assessing advanced liver fibrosis in pediatric liver disease, with TE and MRe performing best. For most children, TE is a reliable and easily applicable measure.
