Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital Celje, 3000 Celje, Slovenia.
Medicina (Kaunas). 2021 May 21;57(6):516. doi: 10.3390/medicina57060516.
Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease has become the most common chronic liver disease as well as the most common cause for liver transplantation. With its different methods types, elastography of the liver can be used for non-invasive evaluation of the liver fibrosis and steatosis degree. The article focuses on the description, use, advantages, and limitations of the currently known elastographic techniques. It proposes a simple risk assessment algorithm for the liver fibrosis progress evaluation. The following is an overview of the use of liver and spleen elastography in the detection of clinically relevant portal hypertension. It concludes with research and technological possibilities that could be important to the field in the upcoming years.
代谢相关脂肪性肝病已成为最常见的慢性肝病，也是肝移植最常见的原因。肝脏的弹性成像具有不同的方法类型，可用于非侵入性评估肝纤维化和脂肪变性程度。本文重点描述、使用、优点和目前已知的弹性成像技术的局限性。它提出了一种简单的肝纤维化进展评估风险评估算法。以下是肝脏和脾脏弹性成像在检测临床相关门脉高压中的应用概述。最后讨论了未来几年对该领域可能重要的研究和技术可能性。
