1. Diagnostic Performance of Transient Elastography Versus Two-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography for Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Direct Comparison and a Meta-Analysis
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Qing-Tian Luo, Qing Zhu, Xiao-Dan Zong, Ming-Kai Li, Hong-Sheng Yu, Chang-Yu Jiang, and Xiang Liao
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Liver Cirrhosis ,Hepatitis, Viral, Human ,Liver ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Liver Diseases ,Elasticity Imaging Techniques ,Humans ,General Medicine ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Hepatitis, Chronic - Abstract
Objective. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to compare the diagnostic performance of transient elastography (TE) and two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) for staging liver fibrosis in patients with chronic viral hepatitis (CVH). Methods. Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library were searched (-01/08/2021) for studies comparing TE with 2D-SWE in patients with CVH. Other etiologies of chronic liver disease (CLD) and articles not published in SCI journals were excluded. The bivariate random-effects model was used to pool the performance of the TE and 2D-SWE. Results. Eight articles with a total of 1301 CVH patients were included. The prevalence of significant fibrosis ( fibrosis stage ≥ 2 ), advanced fibrosis ( fibrosis stage ≥ 3 ), and cirrhosis was 50.8%, 44.8%, and 34.7%, respectively. 2D-SWE expressed higher overall accuracy than TE in detecting significant fibrosis (0.93 vs. 0.85, P = 0.04 ). No significant difference among the overall diagnostic accuracy of TE and 2D-SWE in staging advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis was found. Conclusion. TE and 2D-SWE express good to excellent diagnostic accuracies to stage fibrosis in CVH patients. 2D-SWE compares favorably with TE especially for predicting significant fibrosis.
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- 2022