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Meta-Analysis
. 2022 Sep 17:2022:1960244.
doi: 10.1155/2022/1960244. eCollection 2022.

Diagnostic Performance of Transient Elastography Versus Two-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography for Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Direct Comparison and a Meta-Analysis

Qing-Tian Luo  1   2 , Qing Zhu  3 , Xiao-Dan Zong  4 , Ming-Kai Li  5 , Hong-Sheng Yu  5 , Chang-Yu Jiang  1 , Xiang Liao  1
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Meta-Analysis

Diagnostic Performance of Transient Elastography Versus Two-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography for Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Direct Comparison and a Meta-Analysis

Qing-Tian Luo et al. Biomed Res Int. .

Abstract

Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to compare the diagnostic performance of transient elastography (TE) and two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) for staging liver fibrosis in patients with chronic viral hepatitis (CVH).

Methods: Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library were searched (-01/08/2021) for studies comparing TE with 2D-SWE in patients with CVH. Other etiologies of chronic liver disease (CLD) and articles not published in SCI journals were excluded. The bivariate random-effects model was used to pool the performance of the TE and 2D-SWE.

Results: Eight articles with a total of 1301 CVH patients were included. The prevalence of significant fibrosis (fibrosis stage ≥ 2), advanced fibrosis (fibrosis stage ≥ 3), and cirrhosis was 50.8%, 44.8%, and 34.7%, respectively. 2D-SWE expressed higher overall accuracy than TE in detecting significant fibrosis (0.93 vs. 0.85, P = 0.04). No significant difference among the overall diagnostic accuracy of TE and 2D-SWE in staging advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis was found.

Conclusion: TE and 2D-SWE express good to excellent diagnostic accuracies to stage fibrosis in CVH patients. 2D-SWE compares favorably with TE especially for predicting significant fibrosis.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Flow diagram of the study selection. 150 × 160 mm (300 × 300 DPI).
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Figure 2
Summary of methodological quality of 8 studies according to Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Studies-2 (QUADAS-2) tool. (a) Overall and (b) study-level of bias. 150 × 160 mm (300 × 300 DPI).
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Figure 3
The SROC curves of TE and 2D-SWE showing performance in staging fibrosis stage F ≥ 2. (a) SROC plot of TE for fibrosis stage F ≥ 2. (b) SROC plot of 2D-SWE for fibrosis stage F ≥ 2. 2D-SWE: two-dimensional shear wave elastography; SROC: summary receiver operating characteristic; TE: transient elastography. 150 × 75 mm (300 × 300 DPI).
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Figure 4
The SROC curves of TE and 2D-SWE showing performance in staging fibrosis stage F ≥ 3. (a) SROC plot of TE for fibrosis stage F ≥ 3. (b) SROC plot of 2D-SWE for fibrosis stage F ≥ 3. 2D-SWE: two-dimensional shear wave elastography; SROC: summary receiver operating characteristic; TE: transient elastography. 150 × 75 mm (300 × 300 DPI).
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Figure 5
The SROC curves of TE and 2D-SWE showing performance in staging cirrhosis. (a) SROC plot of TE for fibrosis stage F = 4. (b) SROC plot of 2D-SWE for fibrosis stage F = 4. 2D-SWE: two-dimensional shear wave elastography; SROC: summary receiver operating characteristic; TE: transient elastography. 150 × 75 mm (300 × 300 DPI).
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