A liver scan is an ultrasound of the liver conducted with a piece of equipment called a Fibroscan. Sometimes, healthcare providers use a magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) scan, a type of magnetic ...

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 ...

The signs of liver failure occur in stages, starting with early symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, itchiness, and yellowing of the eyes or skin (jaundice). As it progresses, you may experience loss of ...

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 ...

Drainage methods include: After treatment, follow-up imaging tests, such as ultrasound, CT, or MRI scans, may be necessary to check the treatment has worked. If a pyogenic liver abscess ruptures ...

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 ...

In severe cases, it can progress to decompensated cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is a progressive liver disease in which scar tissue replaces healthy liver cells. This article explores compensated cirrhosis ...

Using retrospective data, researchers developed a DL network, FIB-Net, to predict liver stiffness based on ultrasound images. FIB-Net was designed to identify patients with a shear-wave elastography ...