Noninvasive Staging of Liver Fibrosis: MR vs Ultrasound (ELF)
Comparison of Magnetic Resonance and Ultrasound Elastography With Liver Biopsy for Noninvasive Staging of Liver Fibrosis
Liver fibrosis is an important public health problem, with a substantial morbidity and mortality due to progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. All causes of chronic liver disease may lead to fibrosis. The traditional diagnostic approach requires a biopsy for assessing the severity of liver disease prior to therapy.
However, liver biopsy has several limitations: cost, sampling error, and procedure-related morbidity and mortality. Considering the high prevalence of viral hepatitis and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition often associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes, there is an urgent need for noninvasive screening, diagnosis and monitoring strategies of chronic liver disease severity.
Our team has the expertise to investigate ultrasound-based and magnetic resonance-based elastographic methods for the noninvasive staging of liver fibrosis.
The primary objective of this cross-sectional study is to compare the sensitivity of elastographic methods for detecting histology-determined significant fibrosis.
The secondary objectives are to compare the diagnostic accuracy of these elastographic methods and the influence of potential confounders (inflammation, steatosis and iron deposition) on their diagnostic accuracy.
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Background: Liver fibrosis is an important public health problem, with a substantial morbidity and mortality due to cirrhosis (the end stage) and hepatocellular carcinoma. All causes of chronic liver disease may lead to fibrosis. The amount of fibrosis determines the prognosis and influences the response to treatment of chronic liver disease.
Several elastographic methods have been proposed for noninvasive detection and staging of liver fibrosis. Transient elastography (Fibroscan) is widely used by clinicians. Acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) is an elastography technique recently integrated in clinical ultrasound systems that may provide similar diagnostic performance to transient elastography. Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a new method that can be integrated to a liver MRI study, which would allow liver stiffness, steatosis, iron overload and inflammation quantification in chronic liver disease.
Objectives: 1) To compare the sensitivity of MRE and ARFI for detecting histology-determined significant fibrosis (F ≥ 2). Secondary objectives: 2) To compare the diagnostic accuracy of MRE, ARFI and Fibroscan for predicting histology-determined fibrosis stages. 3) To determine the influence of inflammation, steatosis, and iron deposition on the diagnostic accuracy of MRE, ARFI and Fibroscan for predicting fibrosis. 4) To determine thresholds optimizing sensitivity of ARFI and Fibroscan to screen patients and optimizing specificity of MRE to confirm liver fibrosis stage.
Design: This will be a cross-sectional imaging trial comparing feasibility, diagnostic and fibrosis staging accuracy of stiffness measurements by elastographic methods in 108 patients with chronic liver disease, using histopathology as the reference standard. Paired index tests (MRE, ARFI and Fibroscan) will be performed as research procedures in close temporal proximity to the reference test (liver biopsy).
Inclusion criteria: consecutive adult patients with known or suspected chronic liver disease secondary to hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) undergoing a liver biopsy for clinical indications.
Exclusion criteria: any contraindication to MRI, refusal to participate or provide informed consent, pregnant women, any other cause of chronic liver disease than hepatitis B, hepatitis C or NAFLD.
Typ studie
Zápis (Aktuální)
Kontakty a umístění
Studijní místa
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Quebec
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Montreal, Quebec, Kanada, H2X 0A9
- Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
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Kritéria účasti
Kritéria způsobilosti
Věk způsobilý ke studiu
Přijímá zdravé dobrovolníky
Pohlaví způsobilá ke studiu
Metoda odběru vzorků
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Inclusion Criteria:
- are adults;
- must undergo a liver biopsy as part of their clinical standard of care for suspected or known chronic liver disease caused by HBV, HCV or NASH;
- understand French or English instruction;
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
Exclusion Criteria:
- have any contra-indication to MRI (such as claustrophobia, pacemaker, metallic clips for a neurosurgical procedure);
- are pregnant or trying to become pregnant;
- have a weight or girth preventing them from entering the MR magnet bore;
- are unable to understand or unwilling to provide written informed consent for this study.
Studijní plán
Jak je studie koncipována?
Detaily designu
Kohorty a intervence
Skupina / kohorta |
Intervence / Léčba |
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Hepatis C, Hepatitis B, NAFLD
All patients enrolled will undergo:
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Transient elastography (Fibroscan) Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE)
Ostatní jména:
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Co je měření studie?
Primární výstupní opatření
Měření výsledku |
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Histology-determined fibrosis stage
Časové okno: Within 6 weeks of elastographic methods
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Within 6 weeks of elastographic methods
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Sekundární výstupní opatření
Měření výsledku |
Časové okno |
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Tuková frakce protonové hustoty (PDFF) založená na magnetické rezonanci (MRI)
Časové okno: Do 6 týdnů po biopsii jater
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Do 6 týdnů po biopsii jater
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Fibroscan-determined liver stiffness
Časové okno: Within 6 weeks of liver biopsy
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Within 6 weeks of liver biopsy
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Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI)-determined liver stiffness
Časové okno: Within 6 weeks of liver biopsy
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Within 6 weeks of liver biopsy
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Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE)-determined liver stiffness
Časové okno: Within 6 weeks of liver biopsy
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Within 6 weeks of liver biopsy
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) cine-tagging of cardiac-induced motion for staging liver fibrosis
Časové okno: Within 6 weeks of liver biopsy
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Within 6 weeks of liver biopsy
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Dokončení studie (Aktuální)
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První předloženo, které splnilo kritéria kontroly kvality
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Odeslaná poslední aktualizace, která splnila kritéria kontroly kvality
Naposledy ověřeno
Více informací
Termíny související s touto studií
Klíčová slova
Další relevantní podmínky MeSH
- Nemoci trávicího systému
- Patologické procesy
- RNA virové infekce
- Virová onemocnění
- Infekce
- Infekce přenášené krví
- Přenosné nemoci
- Infekce Flaviviridae
- Hepatitida, virová, lidská
- Infekce Hepadnaviridae
- DNA virové infekce
- Enterovirové infekce
- Infekce Picornaviridae
- Onemocnění jater
- Fibróza
- Žloutenka typu B
- Hepatitida
- Žloutenka typu A
- Hepatitida C
- Mastná játra
- Cirhóza jater
- Nealkoholické ztučnění jater
Další identifikační čísla studie
- CE12.062
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