Diagnostic Effectiveness of Different Liver Elastometry Methods in Patients With Heart Failure Depending on the Stage of the Disease
Aleksey V. Borsukov,
Dmitry A. Doroshenko,
Anastasiia I. Skutar
Abstract:Today, heart failure remains one of the most important public health problems. The leading pathogenetic mechanism of heart failure is stagnation in the systemic circulation, causing affection of one of the main target organs – the liver. Prolonged stagnation in the liver in combination with hypoperfusion of hepatocytes eventually results in liver fibrosis, followed by transformation into the so-called "cardiac cirrhosis". Biopsy with subsequent biopsy material examination remains the "gold standard" to diagnos… Show more
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