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Hepatic arterial resistive indices: Correlation with the severity of cirrhosis
- Source :
- Abdominal Imaging. 18:61-65
- Publication Year :
- 1993
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1993.
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Abstract
- Forty-three patients who were scheduled to undergo a percutaneous liver biopsy were evaluated with Doppler sonography to determine the hepatic arterial resistive index (RI). The histologic specimens were graded by a pathologist regarding cirrhosis and inflammation. The specimens demonstrated no cirrhosis in 12 of 43 (28%) patients, early cirrhosis in 10 of 43 (23%), and established cirrhosis in 21 of 43 (49%). Analysis also revealed that inflammation was absent in three of 43 (7%) patients, minimal in seven of 43 (16%), mild in 17 of 43 (40%), moderate in 13 of 43 (30%), and severe in three of 43 (7%). Hepatic artery RIs (without correction for heart rate) ranged from 0.64 +/- 0.06 in patients with early cirrhosis to 0.68 +/- 0.09 in patients with severe inflammation. There was no significant correlation between the degree of cirrhosis and/or inflammation and hepatic artery RI (with or without correction for heart rate). We conclude that Doppler determination of hepatic artery RIs is not a reliable method of predicting the severity of hepatic cirrhosis and/or inflammation.
- Subjects :
- Liver Cirrhosis
medicine.medical_specialty
Cirrhosis
Urology
Inflammation
Gastroenterology
Hepatic Artery
Internal medicine
Biopsy
Heart rate
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Ultrasonography
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Biopsy, Needle
General Medicine
Hepatology
medicine.disease
Doppler sonography
medicine.anatomical_structure
Vascular resistance
Vascular Resistance
Radiology
medicine.symptom
business
Artery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14320509 and 09428925
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Abdominal Imaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0e0e72846f888bd17536180ee6dfa792