Noninvasive tests (NITs) are used in all aspects of liver disease management. Their most
prominent break-through since the millennium has been in advancing early detection of liver …

This Practice Guidance from the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease
(AASLD) intends to coalesce best practice recommendations for the identification of portal …

This review covers some important new aspects of the alcohol-induced communications
between liver parenchymal and non-parenchymal cells leading to liver injury development …

Spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) by vibration‐controlled transient elastography (VCTE)
is a noninvasive technique for estimating portal hypertension in patients with chronic liver …

Ethnopharmacological relevance According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine,
the main factors related to alcoholic liver disease (ALD) are qi stagnation and blood stasis of …

Aim Thrombocytopenia is widely recognized as a simple surrogate marker of liver fibrosis in
non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Thrombocytopenia of NAFLD has not been …

Background Noninvasive assessment of high-risk varices (HRV) in idiopathic portal
hypertension (IPH) is rare. The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of …

A Primer to the Diagnostic and Clinical Utility of Spleen Stiffness Measurement in Patients With
Chronic Liver Disease Page 1 124 |CliniCal liver Disease, vOl 19, nO 3, MarCH 2022 An Official …

Objectives. To investigate the performance of spleen stiffness (SS) by using two‐
dimensional shear‐wave elastography (2D‐SWE) for assessing the severity of …

Background In people with advanced chronic liver disease or compensated cirrhosis, the
increase of hepatic vascular resistance leads to progressive increase in portal pressure and …