Hepatic fibrosis is the common result of injury to the liver from a variety of damaging mechanisms, and the accurate assessment of the degree of fibrosis is clinically important. For many years ...

Shear wave elastography is a non-invasive imaging technology invented for clinical applications that has shown promise to characterize various tissue viscoelasticity. It is based on measuring and ...

or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan to see if you have fat in your liver. A new imaging test, elastography, measures the stiffness of your liver. A high score may mean you have liver fibrosis ...

Dec. 13, 2024 — New research highlights the possibility of screening people with type 2 diabetes for liver damage at the same time as they undergo screening for eye ... Microbiome Changes in ...

Introduction: Data on the prevalence of pediatric fatty liver disease remain limited, partly due to challenges in diagnosis. A novel concept of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) makes ...

Medicare coverage for a breast MRI is determined on a case by case basis. Although mammograms remain the first-line screening test for breast cancer, a breast MRI may be recommended for people at high ...

With the advent of noninvasive techniques to gauge iron overload such as MRI T2* and evaluation for cirrhosis by techniques such as transient elastography, serum hyaluronic acid levels ...

A study led by researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that many cases of high-risk nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer may be more advanced than ...

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a technique that detects the chemical environment of atomic nuclei by the absorption of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation when in the ...