TY - JOUR
T1 - Editorial
T2 - Magnetic Resonance Elastography and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Time for an Upgrade?
AU - Flores, Avegail
AU - Asrani, Sumeet K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by the American College of Gastroenterology.
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - Elastography techniques, such as two-dimensional magnetic resonance elastography (2D-MRE) are increasingly used for the non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with nonalchoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Loomba et al. demonstrate that 3D-MRE (shear wave frequency 40 Hz) had even greater diagnostic accuracy than the commercially available 2D-MRE (shear wave frequency 60 Hz) in diagnosing advanced fibrosis (area under the receiver operator curve, AUROC 0.981 vs. 0.921, P<0. 05) using liver biopsy as reference standard. Despite limitations, MRE serves as an important tool in risk stratification for patients with NAFLD.
AB - Elastography techniques, such as two-dimensional magnetic resonance elastography (2D-MRE) are increasingly used for the non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with nonalchoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Loomba et al. demonstrate that 3D-MRE (shear wave frequency 40 Hz) had even greater diagnostic accuracy than the commercially available 2D-MRE (shear wave frequency 60 Hz) in diagnosing advanced fibrosis (area under the receiver operator curve, AUROC 0.981 vs. 0.921, P<0. 05) using liver biopsy as reference standard. Despite limitations, MRE serves as an important tool in risk stratification for patients with NAFLD.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84976555692&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/ajg.2016.220
DO - 10.1038/ajg.2016.220
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27356823
AN - SCOPUS:84976555692
VL - 111
SP - 995
EP - 996
JO - The American Journal of Gastroenterology
JF - The American Journal of Gastroenterology
SN - 0002-9270
IS - 7
ER -