Increased liver stiffness in alcoholic liver disease: Differentiating fibrosis from steatohepatitis

• Published in: 世界胃肠病学杂志（英文版） Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 966 - 972
• Main Authors: Sebastian Mueller, Gunda Millonig, Lucie Sarovska, Stefanie Friedrich, Frank M Reimann, Maria Pritsch, Silke Eisele, Felix Stickel, Thomas Longerich, Peter Schirmacher, Helmut Karl Seitz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Medicine and Center for Alcohol Research, Salem Medical Center, University of Heidelberg, ZeppelinstraBe 11-33, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany%Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany%Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland%Peter Schirmacher, Department of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany 2010
• Subjects: Alcoholic steatohepatitis; Tissue elasticity imaging; FibroScan; Bilirubin; Liver cirrhosis; Alcoholic liver disease

R5; AIM: To test if inflammation also interferes with liver stiffness (LS) assessment in alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and to provide a clinical algorithm for reliable fibrosis assessment in ALD by FibroScan~(R) (FS).METHODS: We first performed sequential LS analysis before and after normalization o...