Assessing Baveno VI criteria with liver stiffness measured using a new point-shear wave elastography technique (BAVElastPQ study).
Matteo GarcovichEnrico Di StasioMaria A ZoccoLaura RiccardiMaria E AinoraBrigida E AnnicchiaricoGiulia GibiinoFrancesco SantopaoloAntonio GasbarriniMaurizio PompiliPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2020)
The BAVElastPQ criteria correctly identified 99% of patients without VNT. By applying such criteria, we could have potentially avoided 38% of surveillance endoscopies in our cohort.