Comparison of point-shear wave elastography (ElastPQ) and transient elastography (FibroScan) for liver fibrosis staging in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Davide RoccarinaLaura Iogna PratGiada PalliniMarta Guerrero MisasElena BuzzettiFrancesca SaffiotiFrancesco M AricòAnna MantovaniEvangelia KoutliAtul GoyaleMatteo RosselliTu Vinh LuongMassimo PinzaniEmmanuel A TsochatzisPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2022)
ElastPQ shows an excellent correlation with F-TE in patients with NAFLD, which was better for lower LSM. The optimal cut-off values of ElastPQ are lower than those of F-TE for individual stages of fibrosis. ElastPQ has similar diagnostic accuracy to F-TE for all stages of fibrosis.