Detection of Liver Fibrosis With Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2017-07-31
Target enrollment:
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Summary
Patients with chronic liver disease are at high risk of developing liver scarring (fibrosis),
with ultimate risks of cirrhosis and liver cancer that may require liver transplant. The
investigators would like to develop non invasive advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
techniques (MR diffusion, perfusion and elastography) to assess the degree of liver damage in
patients with chronic liver disease. These techniques combined could reach high diagnostic
performance for detection of liver fibrosis; and could decrease the number of liver biopsies,
which have risks and sample only a small portion of the liver.