The deadly non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is reaching epidemic proportions in India with 3 out of 10 adults and children ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — The research found that heavy drinkers with either diabetes, high blood pressure or a high waist circumference are as much as 2.4 times more likely to develop advanced liver ...

The global rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes is fueling an epidemic of MASLD and MASH, now recognized as the leading cause ...

Abstract: Shear wave elastography (SWE) is a quantitative imaging method that could be used for clinical assessment of musculoskeletal stiffness, particularly in disease diagnosis and rehabilitation ...

Voutouri, Englezos et al. present a convolutional attention model utilizing ultrasound elastography for predicting chemo-immunotherapy responses in mouse tumors. Through training optimization on a ...

Your doctor may also do an imaging test of your belly, such as an MRI or ultrasound. You may need a procedure called a biopsy, in which a sample of your liver tissue is removed so your doctor can ...

Objectives To identify the ultrasound methods used in the literature to measure traumatic scar thickness, and map gaps in the translation of these methods using evidence across the ...

Background: Endoscopic ultrasound (EBUS) strain elastography can diagnose intrathoracic benign and malignant lymph nodes (LNs) by reflecting the relative stiffness of tissues. Due to strong ...

What Does Liver Pain Feel Like? Your liver is a football-sized organ that sits under your ribs. It filters and cleans your blood, stockpiles energy, helps you fight infections and diseases ...

or chronic hepatitis B infection (even without cirrhosis), some experts recommend screening for liver cancer with alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) blood tests and ultrasound exams every 6 months. AFP is a ...

If your provider wants to remove a small sample in a certain part of your liver, the biopsy may be done in the radiology department. It will be guided using an imaging test, such as: Ultrasound. This ...

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