Magnetic Resonance Elastography Comes of Age

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  • Her-Hsin Tsai Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Hospital Trusts, Hull Royal Infirmary, Anlaby Rd. Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire HU3 2JZ, UK

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https://doi.org/10.17140/lroj-1-e002

Abstract

Clinicians are always in search of a less invasive method of diagnosing and assessing a patient. Patients with liver cirrhosis are no exception. Liver cirrhosis is the end stage of many liver pathologies and knowledge of the onset and stage of liver cirrhosis is important to the clinician as it dictates the treatments on offer. This has become increasingly important in viral hepatitis, as it determines level and timing of anti-viral therapy. Furthermore, onset of cirrhosis would alert the physician to screen for varices and hepatocellular carcinoma.

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Published

2015-06-30

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Her-Hsin Tsai. (2015). Magnetic Resonance Elastography Comes of Age. Liver Research, 1(2), e4-e5. https://doi.org/10.17140/lroj-1-e002

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2015): Volume 1 Issue 2 2015

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