What Is a Liver Ultrasound? A liver ultrasound is a type of abdominal ultrasound, an imaging test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the organs and structures in your abdomen, ...

OTAWARA, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Canon Medical announced today its support for the iLEAD (innovative Liver, Elasticity, Attenuation and Dispersion) study, an international ...

Background and Aim: Currently, an increasing number of liver biopsies are performed by radiologists under real-time ultrasound control. A routine ultrasound assessment of a puncture site before ...

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After successfully exhibiting its unique software-based liver assessment tool Hepatascope at the DDW Convention in San Diego and the EASL Conference in ...

A liver biopsy is a diagnostic procedure that samples a person’s liver tissue to check for any abnormalities. Specialists, such as imaging physicians and diagnostic medical sonographers, may use an ...

Over 2 billion people globally are living with, or at risk for, liver disease, and many of them don’t even know it. This is being accelerated by the rise of Non Alcohol Fatty Liver, which affects up ...

An ultrasound-guided liver biopsy is a routine procedure in which doctors remove a small piece of liver tissue for analysis in a lab. Your doctor might recommend this procedure if they suspect there ...

Hepatitis C can be cured in almost all cases with modern medication. However, if advanced liver damage is already present at the time of cure, there is still a residual risk of liver cancer and ...

New European and Latin American guidelines on the use of noninvasive tests for liver evaluation are the first to specifically address an approach that has become the standard in much of the developed ...

A liver ultrasound is a noninvasive test that produces images of a person’s liver and its blood vessels. A liver ultrasound can help diagnose various conditions that affect the liver, such as fatty ...