Hirofumi Tomita, Ken Hoshino, Yasushi Fuchimoto, Hirotoshi Ebinuma, Kiyoshi Ohkuma, Yutaka Tanami, Wenlin Du, Yohei Masugi, Naoki Shimojima, Akihiro Fujino, Motohiro Kano, Takumi Fujimura, Hideo Ishihama, Takahiro Shimizu, Minoru Tanabe, Hidetsugu Saito, Michiie Sakamoto, Toshifumi Hibi, Yuko Kitagawa, Tatsuo Kuroda
Graft fibrosis is a common finding during protocol biopsy examinations after pediatric liver transplantation. We evaluated the clinical utility of liver stiffness measurements by acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging, a novel ultrasound-based elastography method, for assessing graft fibrosis after pediatric living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). We performed 73 liver stiffness measurements by ARFI imaging in 65 pediatric LDLT recipients through the upper midline of the abdomen (midline value) and the right intercostal space (intercostal value) around the time of protocol biopsy examinations...
November 2013: Liver Transplantation