Noninvasive evaluation of liver disease severity

John Carl Hoefs; Phillip T Chen; Paul Lizotte

doi:10.1016/j.cld.2006.08.008

Noninvasive evaluation of liver disease severity

Clin Liver Dis. 2006 Aug;10(3):535-62, viii-ix. doi: 10.1016/j.cld.2006.08.008.

Authors

John Carl Hoefs¹, Phillip T Chen, Paul Lizotte

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California-Irvine University of California Medical Center, 101 City Drive, South Orange, CA 92668, USA. jchoefs@uci.edu

PMID: 17162227
DOI: 10.1016/j.cld.2006.08.008

Abstract

In assessing the severity of chronic liver disease, one measures either the fibrotic structure of the liver or liver function. This article reviews the methods for evaluating the severity of liver disease noninvasively by estimating function or structure.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Asialoglycoprotein Receptor / blood
Female
Humans
Liver Diseases / blood
Liver Diseases / diagnosis*
Liver Diseases / physiopathology
Liver Function Tests / methods*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Severity of Illness Index
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

Asialoglycoprotein Receptor