Detecting liver fat from viscoelasticity: How good is CAP in clinical practice? The need for universal cut-offs

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¹ UCM Inter-centers Digestive Diseases and Ciberehd, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Spain; Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain. Electronic address: mromerogomez@us.es.
² Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de Santa Maria, Laboratório de Nutrição, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

Editorial

Manuel Romero-Gómez et al. J Hepatol. 2017 May.

. 2017 May;66(5):886-887.

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2017.01.029. Epub 2017 Feb 9.

¹ UCM Inter-centers Digestive Diseases and Ciberehd, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Spain; Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain. Electronic address: mromerogomez@us.es.
² Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de Santa Maria, Laboratório de Nutrição, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

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