Normal liver stiffness and influencing factors in healthy children: An individual participant data meta-analysis.
Darrick K LiMuhammad Rehan KhanZhen WangVoranush ChongsrisawatPanida SwangsakUlrike Teufel-SchäferGuido EngelmannImeke GoldschmidtUlrich BaumannDaisuke TokuharaYuki ChoMarion RowlandAnders B MjelleGrant A RammPeter J LewindonPeter WittersDavid CassimanIoana M CiucaLarry D ProkopSamir HaffarKathleen E CoreyM H MuradKatryn N FuruyaBazerbachi FatehPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2021)
We have established TE-derived liver stiffness ranges for healthy children and propose an upper limit of liver stiffness in healthy children to be 5.56 kPa. We have identified increasing age, use of sedation, probe size, and presence of steatosis on ultrasound as factors that can significantly increase liver stiffness.