Interobserver agreement and diagnostic accuracy of shearwave elastography for the staging of hepatitis C virus-associated liver fibrosis

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PURPOSE: Our study aimed to evaluate the technical success rate, interobserver reproducibility, and accuracy of shearwave elastography (SWE) in the staging of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated liver fibrosis.

METHODS: A total of 10 healthy controls and 49 patients with chronic liver disease were enrolled prospectively. Two examiners performed point shearwave elastography (pSWE) and two-dimensional shearwave elastography (2D-SWE) measurements with an RS85A ultrasound scanner using the S-Shearwave application (Samsung Medison, Hongcheon, Korea). The performance of S-Shearwave in the staging (METAVIR F0-F4) of liver fibrosis was compared with prior transient elastography (TE) with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis.

RESULTS: The interobserver reproducibility was excellent with pSWE (ICC = 0.92, 95% CI: 0.86-0.95, P < .001). A very good agreement was found between pSWE and TE measurements (ICC =0.85, 95% CI: 0.78-0.89, P < .001). The ROC analysis determined the optimal cut-off values of pSWE for the staging of chronic hepatitis C-associated fibrosis (F2, 1.46 m/s; F3, 1.63 m/s; F4, 1.95 m/s). Both observers achieved excellent diagnostic accuracy (AUROC: 94% vs 97%) in the detection of significant (≥F2) liver fibrosis.

CONCLUSION: The interobserver agreement is excellent with S-Shearwave pSWE, and observers can diagnose significant liver fibrosis with a comparable accuracy to TE.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:48

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU - 48(2020), 2 vom: 15. Feb., Seite 67-74

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kaposi, Pál N [VerfasserIn]
Unger, Zsuzsanna [VerfasserIn]
Fejér, Bence [VerfasserIn]
Kucsa, András [VerfasserIn]
Tóth, Ambrus [VerfasserIn]
Folhoffer, Anikó [VerfasserIn]
Szalay, Ferenc [VerfasserIn]
Bérczi, Viktor [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chronic hepatitis C
HCV
Journal Article
Liver fibrosis
Shearwave elastography

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Date Completed 09.06.2020

Date Revised 09.06.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/jcu.22771

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM300734166