Noninvasive assessment and risk factors of liver fibrosis in patients with thalassemia major using shear wave elastography

References

• Borgna-Pignatti C, Rugolotto S, De Stefano P, et al. Survival and complications in patients with thalassemia major treated with transfusion and deferoxamine. Haematologica. 2004;89:1187–1193.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rund D, Rachmilewitz E. Β-thalassemia. N Engl J Med. 2005;353:1135–1146.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Prati D, Maggioni M, Milani S, et al. Clinical and histological characterization of liver disease in patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia. A multicenter study of 117 cases. Haematologica 2004;89:1179–1186.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cohen AR. Thalassemia. Hematology 2004;2004:14–34.
   Google Scholar
• Al-Riyami AA, Suleiman AJ, Afifi M, et al. A community-based study of common hereditary blood disorders in Oman. East Mediterr Health J. 2001;7:1004–1011.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Cunningham MJ, Macklin EA, Neufeld EJ, et al. Complications of beta-thalassemia major in North America. Blood. 2004;104:34–39.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Friedman SL. Liver fibrosis – from bench to bedside. J Hepatol. 2003;38:38–53.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• EASL recommendations on treatment of hepatitis C 2016. J Hepatol. 2017;66:153–194.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sarvazyan AP, Rudenko OV, Swanson SD, et al. Shear wave elasticity imaging: a new ultrasonic technology of medical diagnostics. Ultrasound Med Biol. 1998;24:1419–1435.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Di Marco V, Bronte F, Cabibi D, et al. Noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in thalassaemia major patients by transient elastography (TE) – lack of interference by iron deposition. Br J Haematol. 2010;148:476–479.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ferraioli G, Lissandrin R, Tinelli C, et al. Liver stiffness assessed by transient elastography in patients with β thalassaemia major. Ann Hepatol. 2016;15:410–417.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mirault T, Lucidarme D, Turlin B, et al. Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis by transient elastography in post transfusional iron overload. Eur J Haematol. 2008;80:337–340.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hamidieh AA, Shazad B, Ostovaneh MR, et al. Noninvasive measurement of liver fibrosis using transient elastography in pediatric patients with major thalassemia who are candidates for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2014;20:1912–1917.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Song P, Macdonald M, Behler R, et al. Two-dimensional shear-wave elastography on conventional ultrasound scanners with time-aligned sequential tracking (TAST) and comb-push ultrasound shear elastography (CUSE). IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2015;62:290–302.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Daar S, Hussein HM, Merghoub T, et al. Spectrum of beta-thalassemia mutations in Oman. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1998;850:404–406.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sporea I, Bota S, Gradinaru-Taşcău O, et al. Which are the cut-off values of 2d-shear wave elastography (2d-swe) liver stiffness measurements predicting different stages of liver fibrosis, considering transient elastography (TE) as the reference method? Eur J Radiol. 2014;83:e118–e122.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Intraobserver and interobserver variations in liver biopsy interpretation in patients with chronic hepatitis c. The French metavir cooperative study group. Hepatology. 1994;20:15–20.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Team RC. R – a language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna: Rfoundation for statistical computing; 2006. ISBN3-900051-07-0; 2014. Available from: http://www.R-project.org
   Google Scholar
• Friedrich-Rust M, Lupsor M, de Knegt R, et al. Point shear wave elastography by acoustic radiation force impulse quantification in comparison to transient elastography for the noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis c: a prospective international multicenter study. Ultraschall Med. 2015;36:239–247.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ferraioli G, Parekh P, Levitov AB, et al. Shear wave elastography for evaluation of liver fibrosis. J Ultrasound Med. 2014;33:197–203.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Elalfy MS, Esmat G, Matter RM, et al. Liver fibrosis in young Egyptian beta-thalassemia major patients: relation to hepatitis c virus and compliance with chelation. Ann Hepatol. 2013;12:54–61.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fraquelli M, Cassinerio E, Roghi A, et al. Transient elastography in the assessment of liver fibrosis in adult thalassemia patients. Am J Hematol. 2010;85:564–568.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Maira D, Cassinerio E, Marcon A, et al. Progression of liver fibrosis can be controlled by adequate chelation in transfusion-dependent thalassemia (TDT). Ann Hematol. 2017;96:1931–1936.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sinakos E, Perifanis V, Vlachaki E, et al. Is liver stiffness really unrelated to liver iron concentration? Br J Haematol. 2010;150:247–248.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Daar S, Pathare AV. Combined therapy with desferrioxamine and deferiprone in beta thalassemia major patients with transfusional iron overload. Ann Hematol. 2006;85:315–319.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rigamonti C, Andorno S, Maduli E, et al. Gender and liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis: the role of iron status. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2005;21:1445–1451.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marsella M, Borgna-Pignatti C, Meloni A, et al. Cardiac iron and cardiac disease in males and females with transfusion-dependent thalassemia major: a t2* magnetic resonance imaging study. Haematologica. 2011;96:515–520.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Proteggente AR, England TG, Rehman A, et al. Gender differences in steady-state levels of oxidative damage to DNA in healthy individuals. Free Radic Res. 2002;36:157–162.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Karanjia RN, Crossey MM, Cox IJ, et al. Hepatic steatosis and fibrosis: non-invasive assessment. World J Gastroenterol. 2016;22:9880–9897.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Poynard T, Pham T, Perazzo H, et al. Real-time shear wave versus transient elastography for predicting fibrosis: applicability, and impact of inflammation and steatosis. A non-invasive comparison. PLoS One. 2016;11:e0163276.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar