WFUMB AFSUMB Student Webinar on Gynaecological Ultrasound
April 19, 2024Webinar: Liver multiparametric ultrasound. Part 2: Guidance on liver fat quantification – 20 June 2024
April 19, 2024
Programme & Learning Objectives
- Vincent Wong (moderator and speaker): Introduction
- Giovanna Ferraioli: Liver stiffness: interpreting results and staging liver fibrosis
- Learn to interpret liver stiffness results obtained in different etiologies of liver disease.
- Learn the value and the limitations of shear wave elastography in staging liver fibrosis.
- Learn what the confounding factors are when using stiffness to assess fibrosis.
- Maja Thiele: MASLD and alcohol-related liver disease
- Learn when and how to use the various ultrasound elastography methods for diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring in steatotic liver disease patients.
- Learn how obesity and alcohol intake impacts elastography values.
- Learn what constitute a clinically relevant increase or decrease in liver stiffness for SLD patients.
- Thomas Reiberger : portal hypertension
- Understand the clinical concept of VCTE-LSM rule of 5 and ARFI-LSM rule of 4.
- Learn about LSM and SSM based algorithms for ruling-out or ruling-in portal hypertension or varices.
- Knowledge on pitfalls/limitations of LSM and SSM for the diagnosis of portal hypertension.
- Vincent Wong: Conclusions
