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Fibrosis Assessment in Patients with NAFLD

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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is becoming, next to alcoholic liver disease, the most common cause of chronic liver disease in the industrialized countries. Due to this epidemic proportion of individuals with NAFLD worldwide, liver biopsy is impractical in all patients and noninvasive assessment for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis related to NAFLD is needed. In this review, we summarize the current state of the noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in NAFLD and its usefulness for the evaluation of prognosis and follow-up of patients.

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de Ledinghen, V. (2020). Fibrosis Assessment in Patients with NAFLD. In: Mueller, S. (eds) Liver Elastography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40542-7_10

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