Summary

Although liver biopsy is considered the gold standard method of assessment for liver fibrosis, it is being displaced by noninvasive testing, such as serum biomarkers, vibration-controlled transient elastography, magnetic resonance elastography, and acoustic radiation force impulse. However, it is important to understand how they perform, particularly in patients with stage 2 to 3 fibrosis.

  • fibrosis
  • cirrhosis
  • liver disease
  • hepatitis C virus
  • HCV
  • hepatitis B virus
  • HBV
  • biopsy
  • noninvasive testing
  • magnetic resonance elastography
  • transient elastography
  • acoustic radiation force impulse
  • imaging modalities
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