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Liver stiffness as surrogate parameter in emergency assessment for inpatient health care utilization

BACKGROUND: Transient elastography (TE) allows non-invasive quantification of liver stiffness (LSM) and steatosis (controlled attenuation parameter, CAP). Here we test the feasibility and utility of TE in the emergency department (ED) and investigate whether LSM predicts longer hospitalization and r...

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Autores principales: Kaddu-Mulindwa, Dominic, von Martial, Marius, Thiel-Bodenstaff, Angela, Lesan, Vadim, Ewen, Sebastian, Mahfoud, Felix, Lammert, Frank, Krawczyk, Marcin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8992973/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35395041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266069

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