| 1 | Usefulness of noninvasive transient elastography for assessment of liver fibrosis stage in chronic hepatitis C显示文摘AIM:To evaluate the method of noninvasive transient elastography for assessment of histological stage of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). METHODS: Two hundred and thirty-seven patients with CHC were included in this study. Liver biopsy was performed under ultrasonography on 217 of the patients, excluding twenty with clear clinical evidence of liver cirrhosis. Fifty subjects without liver disease were enrolled as a control group (stage 0). Twenty- five patients with sustained virological response (SVR) to interferon (IFN) therapy were also enrolled. These patients underwent liver biopsy before IFN therapy. Examination of liver stiffness (LS) was performed by elastography. RESULTS: Medians (50% levels) of LS were 4.1 (3.5-4.9), 6.3 (4.8-8.5), 8.8 (6.8-12.0), 14.6 (10.5-18.6), and 22.2 (15.4-28.0), respectively, in the fibrosis stages 0-4 (P < 0.001). LS was significantly correlated with four serum fibrosis markers. LS values in patients with SVR were 3.8 (3.5-5.6), 5.2 (4.4-6.8), 6.8 (6.1-7.6), and 6.1 (3.6-7.9), respectively, in the fibrosis stages 1-4. In all stages, LS for patients with SVR was significantly lower than that for patients who did not undergo IFN therapy. LS was significantly correlated with serum concentrations of hyaluronic acid, type Ⅳ collagen, type Ⅳ collagen 7S, and type Ⅲ procollagen N peptide. CONCLUSION: LS correlated well with the histologicalstage of fibrosis. Changes in liver fibrosis stage may thus be estimated noninvasively using transient elastography. | Tadashi Takeda Takahiro Yasuda Yuji Nakayama Mika Nakaya Megumi Kimura Mariko Yamashita Ayumi Sawada Koji Abo Setsuko Takeda Hiroki Sakaguchi Susumu Shiomi Hitoshi Asai Shuichi Seki | 2006 | World Journal of Gastroenterology2006，12，48： | 16 |
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