Key result
Liver elastography non-invasively assesses HF-induced liver congestion to guide prognosis and monitor treatment response.
Why the study?
Hepatic consequences of heart failure through venous congestion are often clinically silent, warranting a review of liver elastography as a complementary non-invasive evaluation method.
Does liver elastography improve the prognostic assessment of patients with heart failure?
Does liver elastography improve the prognostic assessment of patients with heart failure?
Liver elastography is a useful non-invasive tool for evaluating silent hepatic congestion and damage in patients with heart failure.
May aid HF prognostication via non-invasive liver assessment; leaves open routine adoption pending prospective validation.
Liver elastography (LE) assesses the systemic consequences of heart failure (HF).This method may help in the prognostic assessment of patients with HF.HF can secondarily affect the function of various organs and systems, especially the liver, through venous congestion.The purpose of this article is to provide a narrative review of the importance of LE in the complementary evaluation of HF.The hepatic consequences of cardiac disease are sometimes silent, without significant changes in physical examination and/or laboratory tests.In this context, LE has emerged as a recommended non-invasive method to measure liver damage caused by HF.
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Ávila et al. (2024) conducted a review in Heart Failure. Liver elastography was evaluated. Liver elastography serves as a recommended non-invasive method to assess liver damage and venocapillary congestion caused by heart failure, aiding in prognostic evaluation and monitoring treatment response.
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