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• TITLE: Real Time Elastography is an Easy Tool for Diagnosis of Liver Fibrosis in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

  AUTHORS: Badawy A. Abdulaziz, Mohamed EL-Tantawy Ibrahim, Medhat A. Khalil, Walid A. Abdel Halim

  KEYWORDS: Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Real Time Elastography, FIB-4 Index, NAFLD Fibrosis Score

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Medical Imaging, Vol.10 No.2, June 12, 2020

  ABSTRACT: Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged a major challenge and become the leading indication for liver transplantation. We aimed to assess the applicability and performance of real-time elastography (RTE) in diagnosis of liver fibrosis in patients with NAFLD compared with NAFLD fibrosis score (NFS) and FIB-4 index. Patients and Methods: A prospective case-control study was conducted on 260 subjects attended Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious diseases and Internal Medicine departments in Benha University Hospital from Marsh 20, 2018, to September 1, 2019 and divided into group I included 200 cases with NAFLD and group II included 60 healthy control subjects. Results: There was statistically significant increase in FIB-4 scores between two groups (1.39 ± 1.02 and -0.75 ± 0.32 respectively with p Conclusion: Real time elastography could be valuable in diagnosis of fibrosis in NAFLD especially in cases more than F3 score.