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Visual morphometry and three non-invasive markers in the evaluation of liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease
Swastik Agrawal, Caroline L. Hoad, Susan T. Francis, Indra N. Guha, Philip Kaye & Guruprasad P. Aithal
Page 1-16 | Received 24 Jul 2016, Accepted 31 Aug 2016, Accepted author version posted online: 12 Sep 2016, Published online: 12 Sep 2016
Download citation http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00365521.2016.1233578
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Abstract
Objective: Liver fibrosis is traditionally graded into categorical stages with cirrhosis as the highest stage. However, cirrhosis stage may vary between individuals widely in terms of the amount of fibrosis which is not assessed by traditional staging systems. We aimed to utilise visual morphometry to quantify the amount of fibrosis in liver biopsy and compare how non-invasive methods of quantifying liver fibrosis correlated with histological measures.
Materials and Methods: Liver biopsy specimens from 115 consecutive chronic liver disease patients were assessed by a single pathologist for fibrosis stage by the Clinical Research Network and METAVIR systems as well as percentage fibrosis by visual morphometry. Liver T1 relaxation times, liver stiffness measurement (LSM) by transient elastography and Enhanced Liver Fibrosis (ELF) score were compared between fibrosis stages. In addition these parameters were correlated with pathologist’s visual estimate of percentage fibrosis and their predictive ability for advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis assessed by area under receiver operating curve (AUROC).
Results: All four parameters increased sequentially from fibrosis stage F0 to F4 (P < 0.001 for each). AUROCs for advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis were 0.931and 1.000 respectively for pathologist’s estimate of fibrosis, 0.707and 0.926 for ELF score, 0.763 and 0.972 for T1 and 0.881and 0.989 for LSM. LSM, ELF score and T1 correlated significantly with pathologist’s estimate of percentage fibrosis.
Conclusion: Non-invasive markers of fibrosis LSM, ELF and T1relaxation time provide continuous surrogates for categorical histopathological staging of fibrosis which can be useful as markers of progression and regression of fibrosis on follow-up.
Keywords: Cirrhosis, fibrosis, morphometry, transient elastography, MRI,
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