Usefulness of virtual touch tissue quantification for predicting the presence of esophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis.

Teppei Matsui Hidenari Nagai Gou Watanabe Naoyuki Yoshimine Makoto Amanuma Kojiro Kobayashi Yuu Ogino Takanori Mukozu Yasushi Matsukiyo Yasuko Daido Noritaka Wakui Shigeru Nakano Mie Shinohara Koichi Momiyama Takehide Kudo Kenichi Maruyama Yoshinori Igarashi

Published in: JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (2021)

VTQ was reliable at predicting the presence of EVs and high-risk EVs. Therefore, we propose that VTQ is a useful, noninvasive tool for predicting the presence of EVs in daily medical care.

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