January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
616 pages
25h 14m
English
book
Ultrasound Elastography for Biomedical Applications and Medicine
by Ivan Z. Nenadic, Matthew W. Urban, James F. Greenleaf, Jean-Luc Gennisson, Miguel Bernal, Mickael Tanter
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20 Transient Elastography: From Research to Noninvasive Assessment of Liver Fibrosis Using Fibroscan®
Laurent Sandrin1, Magali Sasso1, Stéphane Audière1, Cécile Bastard1, Céline Fournier1, Jennifer Oudry1, Véronique Miette1 and Stefan Catheline2
1 Echosens, Paris, France
2 LabTAU, INSERM‐University of Lyon, France
20.1 Introduction
Initially developed with the critical aim of improving the management of deadly breast and prostate cancers, elastography eventually succeeded in the field of diffuse liver diseases. As a matter of fact, liver diseases are very common diseases which have long been known as affecting liver stiffness. In Aphorisms from more than two thousand years ago, Hippocrates noticed that it is a bad sign if the liver becomes hard during a jaundice. The breakthrough of quantitative elastography of the liver came with the development of Vibration‐Controlled Transient Elastography based FibroScan® which is now considered as the noninvasive standard for the measurement of liver stiffness. Today liver stiffness is widely used as a surrogate marker of liver fibrosis, which is part of the structural and functional alterations in most chronic liver diseases. Among chronic liver diseases, hepatitis C and B lead to nearly 1.4 million deaths every year according to the World Health Organization. The principles of transient elastography are presented in this chapter. The FibroScan® device is detailed, along with a clinical review of its applications to liver ...
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