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Liver stiffness measurement by magnetic resonance elastography is not affected by hepatic steatosis.

Jie ChenAlina M AllenTerry M TherneauJun ChenJiahui LiSafa HoodeshenasJingbiao ChenXin LuZheng ZhuSudhakar K VenkateshBin SongRichard L EhmanMeng Yin
Published in: European radiology (2021)
• The MRI-based proton density fat fraction provides a quantitative assessment of hepatic steatosis with high accuracy. • No significant effect of hepatic steatosis on MRE-based liver stiffness measurement was found in patients with S1, S2, and S3 steatosis and between all steatosis grades after patients were grouped according to fibrosis stage. • After adjusting for fibrosis stage and age, there was no statistically significant relationship between liver stiffness and proton density fat fraction in patients with hepatic steatosis (p = 0.065).
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