ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2020
Spectrum of liver diseases in patients referred for Fibroscan: A single center experience in the Middle East.
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- The burden of cirrhosis and other chronic liver disease in the middle east and North Africa (MENA) region over three decades.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Clinical Characteristics, Etiology, and Prognostic Scores in Patients with Acute Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Changes in the etiology of chronic liver disease by referral to a FibroScan center: Increasing prevalence of the nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.Hepatology forum · 2023Article
- Ultrasound-Based Hepatic Elastography in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Focus on Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Metformin-Associated Lactic Acidosis in a Diabetic Patient with Normal Kidney Function and Occult Cirrhosis.Case reports in critical care · 2022Article
- Vibration-Controlled Transient Elastography and Controlled Attenuation Parameter for the Diagnosis of Liver Steatosis and Fibrosis in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundLiver diseases is a worldwide etiology causing high morbidity and mortality. Fibroscan is a quick, painless examination performed in clinic or at the patient's bedside. It is used to evaluate liver status for patients with suspected liver disease prognosis. This study aims at describing the spectrum of liver diseases among patients performing Fibroscan at a tertiary care center in Lebanon.
methodsThis is a retrospective data collection study on patients who underwent Fibroscan at the American University of Beirut hepatobiliary unit between 2015 and 2018. Medical charts of all patients were reviewed. Data were collected and analyzed using SPSS 25 software.
resultsA total of 620 patients presented to the hepatobiliary unit for Fibroscan, of which 419 (67.5%) were males. The mean age was 47.8 ± 13.4 (range 18-84). 362(58.3%) had NAFLD, 89 (14.3%) had Hepatitis-B, 69 (11.1%) had Hepatitis-C, 48 (7.7%) had ALD, 20 (3.3%) had DILI, and 13 (2.9%) had autoimmune hepatitis. 190 (30.6%) were overweight (BMI over 25), 128 (20.6%) had diabetes. Liver stiffness corresponding to the diagnosis of F4 liver fibrosis stage on Fibroscan was mostly reported in 6 (46.5%) autoimmune hepatitis, 101 (27.9%) NAFLD, and 18 (26.1%) HCV patients. 141 (45.5%) patients who had one or more metabolic risk factors suffered from severe stage steatosis compared with 78 (28.9%) who had not any risk factors with
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