An increasing percentage of people have or are at risk to develop non-alcoholic fatty liver
disease (NAFLD) worldwide. NAFLD comprises different stadia going from isolated steatosis …

This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a
supplement. Background: Many blood tests have been proposed as alternatives to liver …

Cirrhosis is defined as the histological development of regenerative nodules surrounded by
fibrous bands in response to chronic liver injury, which leads to portal hypertension and end …

Transient elastography (TE, FibroScan®) is a novel non-invasive method that has been
proposed for the assessment of hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic liver diseases, by …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Transient elastography has been studied in a multitude of liver
diseases for the staging of liver fibrosis with variable results. A meta-analysis was performed …

Objective: Transient elastography (TE) is gaining popularity as a non-invasive method for
predicting liver fibrosis, but intraobserver and interobserver agreement and factors …

The noninvasive quantitation of liver stiffness (LS) by ultrasound based transient
elastography using FibroScan® has revolutionized the diagnosis of liver diseases, namely …

Liver stiffness was measured by transient elastography (FibroScan®) in 228 consecutive
patients with chronic viral hepatitis, with (115) or without cirrhosis (113), to study its …

Background: The need for new non‐invasive tools to assess liver fibrosis in chronic liver
diseases has been largely advocated. Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) using transient …

Aims The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL) Practice Guidelines for
Management of Hepatitis C were first established in 2004, and revised in 2013, when direct …