Viral Hepatitis

Real-time tissue elastography for evaluation of hepatic fibrosis and portal hypertension in nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases†

  1. Hironori Ochi1,
  2. Masashi Hirooka1,
  3. Yohei Koizumi1,
  4. Teruki Miyake1,
  5. Yoshio Tokumoto1,
  6. Yoshiko Soga2,
  7. Fujimasa Tada1,
  8. Masanori Abe1,
  9. Yoichi Hiasa1,‡,*,
  10. Morikazu Onji1

Article first published online: 13 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.1002/hep.25756

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Hepatology

Hepatology

Volume 56, Issue 4, pages 1271–1278, October 2012

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Ochi, H., Hirooka, M., Koizumi, Y., Miyake, T., Tokumoto, Y., Soga, Y., Tada, F., Abe, M., Hiasa, Y. and Onji, M. (2012), Real-time tissue elastography for evaluation of hepatic fibrosis and portal hypertension in nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases. Hepatology, 56: 1271–1278. doi: 10.1002/hep.25756

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Gastroenterology and MetabologyUniversity Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan

  2. 2

    Department of Pathogenomics, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan

  1. ‡

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*Department of Gastroenterology and Metabology, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Shitsukawa, Toon, Ehime 791-0295, Japan

  1. †

    Potential conflict of interest: Nothing to report.

  2. ‡

    fax: +81-89-960-5310

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 OCT 2012
  2. Article first published online: 13 JUL 2012
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 5 APR 2012 04:35AM EST
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 26 MAR 2012
  5. Manuscript Received: 2 DEC 2011

Funded by

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (JSPS KAKENHI 21590848)
  • Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
  • Development from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan

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