TY - JOUR T1 - Authors’ reply JF - Gut JO - Gut SP - 1172 LP - 1172 VL - 58 IS - 8 AU - F Vizzutti AU - U Arena AU - F Marra AU - M Pinzani Y1 - 2009/08/01 UR - http://gut.bmj.com/content/58/8/1172.abstract N2 - We appreciate the interest and the lively debate elicited by our paper. It should be stressed that the request made by the editors of Gut upon commissioning the leading article was to provide a critical appraisal on the use of transient elastography (TE), a promising non-invasive diagnostic tool. Therefore, it was beyond the scope of our article to provide definitive and strict guidelines for the clinical use of TE and, particularly, … ER -