SynthesisWorld journal of gastroenterology2020
Computed tomography
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- The difference of variation types between late-onset multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency patients carrying biallelic and single heterozygous variations in ETFDH: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Computed tomography for the diagnosis of gastroesophageal varices and risk assessment in patients with cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysisDiagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2024Pooled it
- Development and evaluation of a predictive model based on multi-frequency magnetic resonance elastography for high-risk esophagogastric varices in patients with cirrhotic portal hypertension.Insights into imaging · 2026Article
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- 3D-Volumetric Shunt Measurement for Detection of High-Risk Esophageal Varices in Liver Cirrhosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Computed tomography for the prediction of oesophageal variceal bleeding: A surrogate or complementary to the gold standard?World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2024Article
- Guidelines for the Management of Esophagogastric Variceal Bleeding in Cirrhotic Portal Hypertension.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2023Article
- Vascular pathology in patients with alveolar echinococcosis: framework for assessment and clinical management - a retrospective case series.BMJ open gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Portal Vein Flow Velocity for Esophageal Varices in Cirrhotic Patients.Cureus · 2023Article
- Autoimmune Hepatitis and Fibrosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- [Guidelines on the management of esophagogastric variceal bleeding in cirrhotic portal hypertension].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2022Article
- A novel machine learning-based radiomic model for diagnosing high bleeding risk esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients.Hepatology international · 2022Article
- Nomogram for Predicting Postoperative Portal Venous Systemic Thrombosis in Patients with Cirrhosis Undergoing Splenectomy and Esophagogastric Devascularization.Canadian journal of gastroenterology & hepatology · 2022Article
- [Application and status of digestive endoscopy in the overall management of portal hypertension-related esophagogastric variceal bleeding].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundComputed tomography (CT), liver stiffness measurement (LSM), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are non-invasive diagnostic methods for esophageal varices (EV) and for the prediction of high-bleeding-risk EV (HREV) in cirrhotic patients. However, the clinical use of these methods is controversial.
aimTo evaluate the accuracy of LSM, CT, and MRI in diagnosing EV and predicting HREV in cirrhotic patients.
methodsWe performed literature searches in multiple databases, including PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, CNKI, and Wanfang databases, for articles that evaluated the accuracy of LSM, CT, and MRI as candidates for the diagnosis of EV and prediction of HREV in cirrhotic patients. Summary sensitivity and specificity, positive likelihood ratio and negative likelihood ratio, diagnostic odds ratio, and the areas under the summary receiver operating characteristic curves were analyzed. The quality of the articles was assessed using the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies-2 tool. Heterogeneity was examined by
resultsOverall, 18, 17, and 7 relevant articles on the accuracy of LSM, CT, and MRI in evaluating EV and HREV were retrieved. A significant heterogeneity was observed in all analyses (
conclusionBased on the meta-analysis of observational studies, it is suggested that CT imaging, a non-invasive diagnostic method, is the best choice for the diagnosis of EV and prediction of HREV in cirrhotic patients compared with LSM and MRI.
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