Liver ultrasound elastography for the evaluation of periportal fibrosis in schistosomiasis mansoni: A cross-sectional study.

• Main Authors: Joelma Carvalho Santos (Author), Andrea Dória Batista (Author), Carla Maria Mola Vasconcelos (Author), Roberto Souza Lemos (Author), Valter Romão de Souza Junior (Author), Alain Dessein (Author), Hélia Dessein (Author), Silvia Maria Lucena Montenegro (Author), Edmundo Pessoa Almeida Lopes (Author), Ana Lúcia Coutinho Domingues (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>ARFI elastrography has been used as a noninvasive method to assess the severity of liver fibrosis in viral hepatitis, although with few studies in schistosomiasis mansoni. We aimed to evaluate the performance of point shear wave elastography (pSWE) for predicting signi...