Impact of Hepatic Iron Overload in the Evaluation of Steatosis and Fibrosis in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Using Vibration-Controlled Transient Elastography (VCTE) and MR Imaging Techniques: A Clinical Study
P. Pouletaut , S. Boussida , R. Ternifi , V. Miette , S. Audière , C. Fournier , L. Sandrin , F. Charleux , S.F. Bensamoun
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Abstract
Purpose
Three main non-invasive imaging methods are routinely used for the assessment of liver fibrosis and steatosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): the vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE) using the FibroScan device, the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based on proton density fat fraction (PDFF), and the magnetic resonance elastography (MRE). The purpose of our study is to evaluate the efficiency of the VCTE findings compared to the two others methods, and to analyze the impact of hepatic iron overload on these comparisons.
Methods
A clinical study was performed on 94 patients with NAFLD in the radiology department of ACRIM-Polyclinic Saint-Côme (France). The study also included 17 patients with hemochromatosis, measured from MRI. The liver tissues of all the patients were evaluated with 1) VCTE (including the controlled attenuation (CAP) and stiffness parameters), 2) MRI (fat fraction parameter), and 3) MRE (stiffness parameter) techniques. The performance of VCTE was assessed by estimating the area under the ROC curve (AUC) for patients without or with hemochromatosis. Spearman's correlation was used for the comparison of VCTE measurements to MRI and MRE.
Results
VCTE-based stiffness and CAP were significantly correlated with PDFF and MRE measurements () for the subgroup without hemochromatosis. The correlations failed for the subgroup with hemochromatosis.
Conclusion
VCTE and CAP measurements were not correlated with those from MR PDFF and MRE for patients with hemochromatosis. VCTE, PDFF and MRE modalities don't give concordant results for patients with hemochromatosis.
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IRBM is the journal of the AGBM (Alliance for engineering in Biology an Medicine / Alliance pour le génie biologique et médical) and the SFGBM (BioMedical Engineering French Society / Société française de génie biologique médical) and the AFIB (French Association of Biomedical Engineers / Association française des ingénieurs biomédicaux).
As a vehicle of information and knowledge in the field of biomedical technologies, IRBM is devoted to fundamental as well as clinical research. Biomedical engineering and use of new technologies are the cornerstones of IRBM, providing authors and users with the latest information. Its six issues per year propose reviews (state-of-the-art and current knowledge), original articles directed at fundamental research and articles focusing on biomedical engineering. All articles are submitted to peer reviewers acting as guarantors for IRBM''s scientific and medical content. The field covered by IRBM includes all the discipline of Biomedical engineering. Thereby, the type of papers published include those that cover the technological and methodological development in:
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