Introduction to Liver Stiffness: A Novel Parameter for the Diagnosis of Liver Disease
Since 2003, the noninvasive quantitation of liver stiffness (LS) by ultrasound-based transient elastography (TE) using Fibroscan® has revolutionized the diagnosis of liver diseases, namely liver cirrhosis. Alternative techniques such as ARFI, 2D-SWE, or m
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Liver Elastography
Sebastian Mueller Editor
Liver Elastography Clinical Use and Interpretation
Editor Sebastian Mueller Department of Medicine and Center for Alcohol Research and Liver Diseases, Salem Medical Center University of Heidelberg Heidelberg Germany
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To my wife Ana and my children Julian and Ainhoa
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Györgyi
Preface to the First Edition
When asked by Springer Nature to publish a first-time book on liver stiffness and its clinical interpretation, I have been enthusiastic from the very beginning. Bedside measurement of liver stiffness by elastography, namely transient elastography, has been a breathless and inspiring journey since its first start in 2003. At this time, nobody could foresee that this rapid and noninvasive technique would not only drastically improve our abilities to screen patients for liver fibrosis, but also change and is still changing the daily management of patients with liver diseases. Without any exaggeration, it has become a silent but fascinating revolution in hepatology and can be considered essential for diagnosing and managing liver diseases today. Moreover, it has helped to rethink hitherto still poorly understood fundamentals of liver diseases, namely the pathology of cirrhosis and the role of pressure-related mechanisms. In this first comprehensive book entitled Liver Elastography: Its Clinical Use and Interpretation, the major advances are presented by tec
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