Jörg Bojunga

TL;DR: The technical part of these Guidelines and Recommendations provides an introduction to the physical principles and technology on which all forms of current commercially available ultrasound elastography are based.

TL;DR: The clinical part of these Guidelines and Recommendations produced under the auspices of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology EFSUMB assesses the clinically used applications of all forms of elastography, stressing the evidence from meta-analyses and giving practical advice for their uses and interpretation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis was performed to assess the overall performance of real-time elastography (RTE) for the differentiation of thyroid nodules, using an inverse variance method and the Der Simonian and Laird Random effect estimator in case of established heterogeneity.

TL;DR: The data indicate that entecavir should be applied cautiously in patients with impaired liver function, and that the MELD score correlated with the development of lactic acidosis, as well as its single parameters bilirubin, international normalized ratio, and creatinine.

TL;DR: Reduced 25(OH)D(3) deficiency and CYP27B1-1260 promoter polymorphism leading to reduced 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels are associated with failure to achieve SVR in HCV genotype 1, 2, and 3 infected patients.