Tianyi Wang1, Cuiping Shao1, Guosheng Zhang1, Youqing Xu2. 1. Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China. 2. Department of Gastroenterology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China. youqingxuttyy@163.com.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To investigate the diagnostic usefulness of real-time elastography (RTE) for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B (CHB). METHODS: 89 CHB patients were enrolled in the cross-sectional study. Ultrasound-guided percutaneous liver biopsies, RTE, and blood testing were performed in all patients. Areas under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUROC) were used to examine the diagnostic performance of liver fibrosis index (LFI) for the assessment of liver fibrosis. RESULTS: LFI differed significantly across histologic fibrosis stages (P < 0.05), except the comparison between S0 and S1 (P = 0.298). There was a strong positive correlation between LFI and histologic liver fibrosis stage (Spearman r = 0.831, P < 0.001). The cutoff LFI value of >2.74 indicated a sensitivity of 0.766 and a specificity of 0.872 for predicting significant liver fibrosis (S ≥ 2), and the cutoff LFI value of >3.61 indicated a sensitivity of 0.833 and a specificity of 0.878 for predicting early liver cirrhosis (S = 4). LFI showed higher AUROC for discriminating significant liver fibrosis (0.873 vs. 0.614) and early liver cirrhosis (0.923 vs. 0.769) than aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI). CONCLUSIONS: RTE is a valuable sonography-based non-invasive method for assessment of liver fibrosis and has better discrimination power for significant liver fibrosis and early liver cirrhosis than APRI in CHB.
PURPOSE: To investigate the diagnostic usefulness of real-time elastography (RTE) for liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B (CHB). METHODS: 89 CHB patients were enrolled in the cross-sectional study. Ultrasound-guided percutaneous liver biopsies, RTE, and blood testing were performed in all patients. Areas under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUROC) were used to examine the diagnostic performance of liver fibrosis index (LFI) for the assessment of liver fibrosis. RESULTS: LFI differed significantly across histologic fibrosis stages (P < 0.05), except the comparison between S0 and S1 (P = 0.298). There was a strong positive correlation between LFI and histologic liver fibrosis stage (Spearman r = 0.831, P < 0.001). The cutoff LFI value of >2.74 indicated a sensitivity of 0.766 and a specificity of 0.872 for predicting significant liver fibrosis (S ≥ 2), and the cutoff LFI value of >3.61 indicated a sensitivity of 0.833 and a specificity of 0.878 for predicting early liver cirrhosis (S = 4). LFI showed higher AUROC for discriminating significant liver fibrosis (0.873 vs. 0.614) and early liver cirrhosis (0.923 vs. 0.769) than aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI). CONCLUSIONS: RTE is a valuable sonography-based non-invasive method for assessment of liver fibrosis and has better discrimination power for significant liver fibrosis and early liver cirrhosis than APRI in CHB.
Authors: Cheng Fang; Sanjiv Virdee; Joseph Jacob; Olivia Rufai; Kosh Agarwal; Alberto Quaglia; Daniel J Quinlan; Paul S Sidhu Journal: Ultrasound Date: 2019-07-23
Authors: Bruno Christ; Uta Dahmen; Karl-Heinz Herrmann; Matthias König; Jürgen R Reichenbach; Tim Ricken; Jana Schleicher; Lars Ole Schwen; Sebastian Vlaic; Navina Waschinsky Journal: Front Physiol Date: 2017-11-14 Impact factor: 4.566