Assessment of pathologic increase in liver stiffness enables earlier diagnosis of CFLD: Results from a prospective longitudinal cohort study

About 30% of patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) develop CF-associated liver disease (CFLD). Recent studies have shown that transient elastography (TE), as a method to quantify liver stiffness, allows non-invasive diagnosis of CFLD in adults and children with CF. Within this study we aimed to prospec...

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Autores principales: Klotter, Victoria, Gunchick, Caroline, Siemers, Enno, Rath, Timo, Hudel, Helge, Naehrlich, Lutz, Roderfeld, Martin, Roeb, Elke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5456384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28575039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178784

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