WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 3: liver

Giovanna Ferraioli; Carlo Filice; Laurent Castera; Byung Ihn Choi; Ioan Sporea; Stephanie R Wilson; David Cosgrove; Christoph F Dietrich; Dominique Amy; Jeffrey C Bamber; Richard Barr; Yi-Hong Chou; Hong Ding; Andre Farrokh; Mireen Friedrich-Rust; Timothy J Hall; Kazutaka Nakashima; Kathryn R Nightingale; Mark L Palmeri; Fritz Schafer; Tsuyoshi Shiina; Shinichi Suzuki; Masatoshi Kudo

doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.03.007

WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 3: liver

Ultrasound Med Biol. 2015 May;41(5):1161-79. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.03.007. Epub 2015 Mar 20.

Authors

Giovanna Ferraioli¹, Carlo Filice¹, Laurent Castera², Byung Ihn Choi³, Ioan Sporea⁴, Stephanie R Wilson⁵, David Cosgrove⁶, Christoph F Dietrich⁷, Dominique Amy⁸, Jeffrey C Bamber⁹, Richard Barr¹⁰, Yi-Hong Chou¹¹, Hong Ding¹², Andre Farrokh¹³, Mireen Friedrich-Rust¹⁴, Timothy J Hall¹⁵, Kazutaka Nakashima¹⁶, Kathryn R Nightingale¹⁷, Mark L Palmeri¹⁷, Fritz Schafer¹⁸, Tsuyoshi Shiina¹⁹, Shinichi Suzuki²⁰, Masatoshi Kudo²¹

Affiliations

¹ Ultrasound Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo, School of Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
² Service d'Hépatologie, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, INSERM U 773 CRB3, Université Denis Diderot Paris-VII, Paris, France.
³ Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
⁴ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timişoara, Romania.
⁵ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
⁶ Division of Radiology, Imperial and Kings Colleges, London, UK.
⁷ Med. Klinik 2, Caritas-Krankenhaus, Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
⁸ Breast Center, 21 ave V. Hugo, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France.
⁹ Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Radiology, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio and Radiology Consultants Inc., Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
¹¹ Department of Radiology, Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
¹² Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
¹³ Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Franziskus Hospital, Bielefeld, Germany.
¹⁴ Department of Internal Medicine 1, J. W. Goethe University Hospital, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
¹⁵ Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
¹⁶ Department of General Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan.
¹⁷ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Breast Imaging and Interventions, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus, Kiel, Germany.
¹⁹ Department of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
²⁰ Department of Endocrinology and Surgery, Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan.
²¹ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Japan. Electronic address: m-kudo@med.kindai.ac.jp.

PMID: 25800942
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.03.007

Abstract

The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) has produced these guidelines for the use of elastography techniques in liver disease. For each available technique, the reproducibility, results, and limitations are analyzed, and recommendations are given. Finally, recommendations based on the international literature and the findings of the WFUMB expert group are established as answers to common questions. The document has a clinical perspective and is aimed at assessing the usefulness of elastography in the management of liver diseases.

Keywords: WFUMB; elastography; focal liver lesions; guidelines; liver; liver diseases; liver fibrosis; liver stiffness; shear wave elastography; strain elastography; transient elastography; ultrasound.

MeSH terms

Elastic Modulus
Elasticity Imaging Techniques / standards*
Internationality
Liver / diagnostic imaging*
Liver / physiopathology*
Liver Cirrhosis / diagnostic imaging*
Liver Cirrhosis / physiopathology*
Practice Guidelines as Topic*
Shear Strength
Stress, Mechanical

Grants and funding

16464/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom