Magnetic resonance elastography is superior to acoustic radiation force impulse for the Diagnosis of fibrosis in patients with biopsy-proven nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A prospective study.

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Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), an advanced magnetic resonance-based imaging technique, and acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI), an ultrasound-based imaging technique, are accurate for diagnosing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) fibrosis. However, no head-to-head comparisons between MRE and ARFI for diagnosing NAFLD fibrosis have been performed. We compared MRE versus ARFI head-to-head for diagnosing fibrosis in well-characterized patients with biopsy-proven NAFLD. This cross-sectional analysis of a prospective cohort involved 125 patients (54.4% female) who underwent MRE, ARFI, and contemporaneous liver biopsies scored using the Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network histological scoring system. The performances of MRE versus ARFI for

SUBMITTER: Cui J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4818645 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature