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October 28, 2009Journal of Digestive DiseasesOpen Access

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Quantitative assessment of liver fat content by computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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Why the study?

Do MRI and 1H MRS accurately quantify liver fat content compared to CT in patients with diffuse fatty liver?

Population

36 patients with diffuse fatty liver

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

LZLiang ZhongJCJie Jun ChenJCJie Chen

Discussion

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Overview

Supports MRI/MRS for noninvasive liver fat assessment versus CT; leaves open prospective validation against histology before practice change.

Structured PICO

Do MRI and 1H MRS accurately quantify liver fat content compared to CT in patients with diffuse fatty liver?

P
Population
36 patients with diffuse fatty liver
I
Intervention
Quantitative assessment of liver fat content using computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and proton MR spectroscopy (1H MRS)
O
Outcome
Correlation between liver fat content measured by MRI/1H MRS and CT liver to spleen ratio (L/S) or BMIsurrogate

CT, MRI, and 1H MRS are effective methods for quantitative assessment of liver fat content, with 1H MRS potentially reflecting severity more accurately.

Cite This Study

Zhong et al. (2009) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ce46d9e20a1edef3aaa15https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-2980.2009.00402.x
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