A novel spleen-dedicated stiffness measurement by FibroScan® improves the screening of high-risk oesophageal varices.

Horia Stefanescu Giovanni Marasco Paul CalèsMirella FraquelliMatteo RosselliNathalie Ganne-CarrièVictor De Ledinghen Federico RavaioliAntonio ColecchiaCorina RusuPietro AndreoneGiuseppe MazzellaDavide Festi

Published in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2019)

SSM@100Hz is a new performant non-invasive marker for EV and HRV providing a higher accuracy than SSM@50Hz and other NITs. The combination of Baveno VI criteria and SSM@100Hz significantly increased the spared endoscopy rate compared to Baveno VI criteria alone or combined with SSM@50Hz. Clinical trial number: NCT02180113.

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clinical trial
neuropathic pain
open label
phase ii
double blind
small bowel
phase iii