A pilot study estimating liver fibrosis with ultrasound shear-wave elastography: does the cause of liver disease or location of measurement affect performance?
Real-time shear-wave elastography accurately predicted significant fibrosis (stage ≥ 2) in an unselected patient population with diffuse disease, including patients with and without hepatitis C. Shear-wave elastography best predicts pathologic grading when taken at the biopsy site or ipsilateral lobe in hepatitis C patients. Percentage steatosis was not predictive of shear-wave elastography results.
Granisetron is effective in the prevention of retching and vomiting after strabismus repair and tonsillectomy in paediatric patients.