At present, transient elastography and the serum marker FibroTest are the most intensively evaluated non-invasive methods for the assessment of liver fibrosis. The results of the present study for ...

Enhanced Liver Fibrosis (ELF™) Test Gauges Likelihood of Disease Progression; Expands Labcorp’s Testing Options for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease The ELF test provides a numeric score to people ...

Chronic liver disease poses a growing global health burden, driven in large part by metabolic risk factors and viral hepatitis. Fibrosis stage is the principal ...

Introduction: The global rise in obesity and metabolic syndrome has increased metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) incidence. Owing to its high prevalence and the emergence ...

New research and updated guidelines highlight the urgent need to standardize noninvasive liver fibrosis screening as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) cases climb ...

Roche is rolling out a new diagnostic test to help assess hidden liver fibrosis in patients showing signs of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD. The company said its 18 ...

As the prevalence of liver disease continues to climb alongside diabetes and obesity, the role of the primary care physician is evolving from referral maker to frontline manager.

Combining retina scanning with liver stiffness assessment offers a promising, efficient approach to identify advanced fibrosis and MASLD in type 2 diabetes patients. Study: Screening for advanced ...

An AI-powered blood test that analyzes DNA fragments could detect silent liver disease long before symptoms begin.

Researchers have identified a rare T cell–dendritic cell interaction that drives liver inflammation and fibrosis, confirmed in both mice and human tissue. In parallel, a new AI-powered blood test can ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I'm a generally healthy 73-year-old man. I recently had blood work done and was incidentally noted to have high liver tests (ALT and AST). My doctor ordered a sonogram, which said that ...