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Practice Guideline
. 2024 Sep;30(Suppl):S5-S105.
doi: 10.3350/cmh.2024.0506. Epub 2024 Aug 19.

KASL clinical practice guidelines for noninvasive tests to assess liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease

Mi Na Kim  1   2 , Ji Won Han  3 , Jihyun An  4 , Beom Kyung Kim  1   2 , Young-Joo Jin  5 , Seung-Seob Kim  6 , Minjong Lee  7 , Han Ah Lee  8 , Yuri Cho  9 , Hee Yeon Kim  10 , Yu Rim Shin  11 , Jung Hwan Yu  5 , Moon Young Kim  12 , YoungRok Choi  13 , Young Eun Chon  14 , Eun Ju Cho  15 , Eun Joo Lee  16 , Sang Gyune Kim  17 , Won Kim  18 , Dae Won Jun  19 , Seung Up Kim  1   2 ; Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL)
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Practice Guideline

KASL clinical practice guidelines for noninvasive tests to assess liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease

Mi Na Kim et al. Clin Mol Hepatol. 2024 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: Chronic liver disease; Guidelines; Liver fibrosis; Noninvasive test.

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Conflicts of interest statement is available at the official website of Clinical and Molecular Hepatology (Supplementary Table 2, https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2024.0506).

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Principles of vibration-controlled transient elastography [43].
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Principles of point shear wave elastography (A) and actual images (B).
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Principles of two-dimensional shear wave elastography (A) and actual images (B).
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
Principles of magnetic resonance elastography.
Figure 5.
Figure 5.
Examples of actual magnetic resonance elastography images. MMDI, multimodel direct inversion algorithm.
Figure 6.
Figure 6.
Antiviral therapy algorithm for chronic hepatitis B patients in the gray zone. HBsAg, hepatitis B surface antigen; HBeAg, hepatitis B e antigen; HBV, hepatitis B virus; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; VCTE, vibration-controlled transient elastography; MRE, magnetic resonance elastography.
Figure 7.
Figure 7.
Algorithm for screening high-risk groups of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus; HBV, hepatitis B virus; HCV, hepatitis C virus; FIB-4, fibrosis-4 index; VCTE, vibration-controlled transient elastography; LS, liver stiffness; MRE, magnetic resonance elastography; ELF, enhanced liver fibrosis; NITs, non-invasive tests.
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