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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: MR Imaging of Liver Proton Density Fat Fraction to Assess Hepatic Steatosis

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MR imaging-PDFF showed promise for assessment of hepatic steatosis grade in patients with NAFLD, and was significantly correlated with histologic steatotic grade.
Abstract
MR imaging with proton density fat fraction (PDFF) permitted high overall accuracy with moderate sensitivity and high specificity for classification of dichotomized steatosis grade, and these results support the conduct of further studies to help validate MR imaging–PDFF as a biomarker of hepatic steatosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

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Magnetic resonance imaging of the pediatric liver: imaging of steatosis, iron deposition, and fibrosis.

TL;DR: Significant advances in functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the liver provide radiologists with the tools to evaluate the liver at the molecular level, allowing quantification of hepatic fat and iron, and enabling the identification of liver fibrosis at its earliest stages.
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Diagnostic accuracy of hepatic proton density fat fraction measured by magnetic resonance imaging for the evaluation of liver steatosis with histology as reference standard: a meta-analysis

TL;DR: MRI- PDFF has high diagnostic accuracy at detecting and grading LS with histology as reference standard, suggesting that MRI-PDFF is able to provide an accurate quantification of LS in clinical trials and patient care.
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Accurate simultaneous quantification of liver steatosis and iron overload in diffuse liver diseases with MRI.

TL;DR: A MECSE-MR sequence simultaneously quantifies liver steatosis and siderosis, regardless coexisting liver inflammation or fibrosis, with high accuracy in a wide spectrum of diffuse liver disorders.
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Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: a proposal for grading and staging the histological lesions

TL;DR: There are no systems for grading necroinflammatory activity or for staging fibrosis as exist for various other forms of chronic liver disease and this study proposes a grading and staging system that reflects the unique histological features of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
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Sampling variability of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a length of at least 25 mm is necessary to evaluate fibrosis accurately with a semiquantitative score, because variability in the distribution of fibrosis within the liver is a major limitation when using more accurate methods such as automated image analysis.
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Sampling variability of liver biopsy in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

TL;DR: Histologic lesions of NASH are unevenly distributed throughout the liver parenchyma; therefore, sampling error of liver biopsy can result in substantial misdiagnosis and staging inaccuracies.
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