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  • Inventi:hgst/32402/20
    Real Time Elastography is an Easy Tool for Diagnosis of Liver Fibrosis in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
    Research 2020 : October - December
    Badawy A Abdulaziz, Mohamed EL-Tantawy Ibrahim, Medhat A Khali, Walid A Abdel Halim

    Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged a major\nchallenge and become the leading indication for liver transplantation. We\naimed to assess the applicability and performance of real-time elastography\n(RTE) in diagnosis of liver fibrosis in patients with NAFLD compared with\nNAFLD fibrosis score (NFS) and FIB-4 index. Patients and Methods: A\nprospective case-control study was conducted on 260 subjects attended Hepatology,\nGastroenterology and Infectious diseases and Internal Medicine\ndepartments in Benha University Hospital from Marsh 20, 2018, to September\n1, 2019 and divided into group I included 200 cases with NAFLD and\ngroup II included 60 healthy control subjects. Results: There was statistically\nsignificant increase in FIB-4 scores between two groups..............

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    Attribution/ CC Compliant Citation: Abdulaziz, B.A., Ibrahim, M.E.-T., Khalil, M.A. and Halim, W.A.A. (2020) Real Time Elastography is an\nEasy Tool for Diagnosis of Liver Fibrosis in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Open Journal of Medical Imaging, 10, 110-124.\nhttps://doi.org/10.4236/ojmi.2020.102011\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\nSome formatting elements, header, footer, logos, dates and pagination were modified while adapting this article.
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