Liver stiffness in chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Abstract

Introduction. The severity of liver fibrosis can be assessed noninvasively today by liver stiffness measurements. Vibration-controlled transient elastography, shear wave elastography or magnetic resonance elastography are techniques increasingly used for this purpose.

Keywords

• chronic hepatitis c
• liver fibrosis
• liver stiffness
• shear wave elastography
• transient elastography