What are 'true normal' liver stiffness values using FibroScan?: a prospective study in healthy living liver and kidney donors in South Korea
Kim S. U., Choi G. H., Han W. K., Kim B. K., Park J. Y., Kim do Y., Choi J. S., Yang S. C., Choi E. H., Ahn S. H., Han K. H. and Chon C. Y.
2010
Liver International 30;2 (268-274)
AIMS: To identify the normal range of liver stiffness (LS) values by recruiting healthy living liver and kidney donors in South Korea. METHODS: Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) was performed in 69 healthy living liver and kidney donors who were admitted for transplantation. None of the subjects suffered from diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hepatitis B virus infection, hepatitis C virus infection, heart dysfunction, liver dysfunction or metabolic syndrome. RESULTS: LSM failure rate was 2.7%. Among 12 liver donors (17.4%) with available liver histology, eight showed normal liver histology and four showed liver steatosis of
Pubmed : 19929903