You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 65, Issue 6
  • Algorithm to rule out clinically significant portal hypertension combining Shear-wave elastography of liver and spleen: a prospective multicentre study

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
PostScript
Letter
Algorithm to rule out clinically significant portal hypertension combining Shear-wave elastography of liver and spleen: a prospective multicentre study
  1. Christian Jansen1,
  2. Christopher Bogs1,
  3. Wim Verlinden2,
  4. Maja Thiele3,
  5. Philipp Möller1,
  6. Jan Görtzen1,
  7. Jennifer Lehmann1,
  8. Michael Praktiknjo1,
  9. Johannes Chang1,
  10. Aleksander Krag3,
  11. Christian P Strassburg1,
  12. Sven Francque2,
  13. Jonel Trebicka1,3
  1. 1 Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  2. 2 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium
  3. 3 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
  1. Correspondence to Professor Jonel Trebicka, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, Bonn D-53105, Germany; jonel.trebicka{at}ukb.uni-bonn.de

https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2016-311536

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Recently, the UK guidelines on variceal bleeding1 and other reports have introduced the role of elastography for the diagnosis of oesophageal varices (OVs).2 ,3 Development of OVs is likely when the hepatic venous pressure gradient is higher than 10 mm Hg, which defines clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH). Baveno VI implemented transient elastography (TE) as a tool to rule in CSPH in viral aetiologies and to rule out varices (need of screening endoscopy for varices).4 Furthermore, CSPH has a strong prognostic value in patients with cirrhosis.

    Recent studies introduced Shear-wave elastography of the liver (L-SWE) as a promising tool to diagnose portal hypertension. These studies find good diagnostic accuracy of L-SWE with specificity and sensitivity ranging around 80% and superior to TE. However, in more than 30% of the patients CSPH could not be ruled in or ruled out, since their SWE values were between the cut-offs.

    This prospective multicentre study investigated the …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • CJ, CB, SF and JT have contributed equally.

    • Contributors The study was designed by JT. Data were obtained by CB, CJ, WV, MT, PM, JG, JL, MP, JC, AK, CPS SF and JT. The report was written by CB, CJ, AK, SF and JT. All authors approved the final version.

    • Funding This study was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB TRR57 to P18), the H. J. & W. Hector Stiftung, Ernst-Bertha-Grimmke-Stiftung (6/15) and European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (No 668031).

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Ethics approval Ethics committee of the University of Bonn (Nr. 121/14); ethics committee of the university of Antwerp (15/13/135); ethics committee of the university Odense (51872).

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.