Elastography in the evaluation of liver allograft.
Elastography is an established technique in the evaluation of chronic liver diseases. While there is a large clinical experience and data available regarding the performance of elastography in native liver, elastography experience with liver grafts is limited and still growing. Both ultrasound-based...
| Publicado en: | Abdominal Radiology Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 96 - 111 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , |
| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=148519991&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 148519991 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 2366004X JT14 jtl: Abdominal Radiology issn: 2366004X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2021 vid: 46 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 148519991 144148226 10.1007/s00261-019-02400-w 148519991 ppf: 96 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Elastography in the evaluation of liver allograft. aug: au: Navin, P. J. Olson, M. C. Knudsen, J. M. Venkatesh, S. K. affil: Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA sug: ab: Elastography is an established technique in the evaluation of chronic liver diseases. While there is a large clinical experience and data available regarding the performance of elastography in native liver, elastography experience with liver grafts is limited and still growing. Both ultrasound-based elastography techniques and MR Elastography (MRE) are useful in the assessment of liver fibrosis in liver transplants. Technical modifications for performing elastography will be required for optimum evaluation of the graft. In general, caution needs to be exercised regarding the use of elastography immediately following transplantation as post-operative changes, perioperative conditions/complications, inflammation, and rejection can cause increased stiffness in the graft. In the follow-up, detection of increased stiffness with elastography is useful for predicting development of fibrosis in the graft. Adjunctive MRI or ultrasound with Doppler also provides comprehensive evaluation of anatomy, vascular anastomosis and patency, biliary tree, and stiffness for fibrosis. In this review, we provide a brief overview of elastography techniques available followed by the literature review of elastography in the evaluation of grafts and illustration with clinical examples. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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