10473

The Role of Fibroscan as a Non-Invasive Predictor for Oesophageal Varices in Post HCV Cirrhotic Egyptian Patients With or Without Bilhariziasis

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Development of oesophageal varices is a major complication that may occur in up to 90% of cirrhotic patients. The endoscopic screening is an invasive procedure. This is why the selection of patients with large oesophageal varices at high risk for bleeding has become an issue of growing importance. In this respect, several clinical, biochemical, ultrasonographic and elastrogarphic (transient elastography-TE) methods have been proposed (and some of them validated) as noninvasive alternatives to endoscopy. Objectives: It was to evaluate transient elastography by fibroscan in the prediction and determination of the grade of esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients due to chronic hepatitis c virus (HCV) infection with or without bilharziasis. Patients and Methods: Sixty Egyptian patients with body mass index (BMI) <35, no history of: upper gastro-intestinal tract (GIT) bleeding, hepatocellular carcinoma, moderate and tense ascites or any other cause of liver cirrhosis. The patients were divided into two groups: Group I included thirty patients with liver cirrhosis due to HCV infection only. Group II included thirty patients with liver cirrhosis due to HCV infection associated with bilharziasis. The patients were subjected to: 1) Thorough history taking. 2) Detailed clinical examination. 3) Laboratory tests. 4) Abdominal ultrasound. 5) Rectal snip for diagnosis of bilharziasis. 6) Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. 7) fibroscan. Results: Regarding fibroscan in both groups, the mean values of fibroscan were lower in patients without esophageal varices than patients with esophageal varices or with large esophageal varices with statistically high significant differences (p<0.01). Regarding fibroscan in group I, the mean values of fibroscan were lower in patients without esophageal varices than patients with small esophageal varices with statistically high significant differences (p<0.01). But in group II, the mean values of fibroscan were lower in patients without esophageal varices than patients with small esophageal varices with statistically non significant differences (p > 0.05). In both groups, the mean values of fibroscan were lower in patients with small esophageal varices than patients with large esophageal varices with statistically non significant differences (p > 0.05). Conclusion: fibroscan is valuable in predicting the presence of esophageal varices and large esophageal varices in patients with post HCV liver cirrhosis with or without bilharziasis but couldnot predict the grade of esophageal varices.

DOI

10.21608/ejhm.2018.10473

Keywords

FibroScan, Liver Stiffness, Esophageal varices, Grading, Non-invasive methods, Liver cirrhosis

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Bastawy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Anwar Gomaa

Last Name

El-Sheety

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Abd El-Aleem

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Yasser M. M.

Last Name

El-Dessouky

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ayman

Last Name

Rabie

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Hepatology Department, Ahmed Maher Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Sherif Mohammad El-sayed Amine

Last Name

Hegab

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Hepatology Department, Ahmed Maher Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

sherifhegab1@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

72

Article Issue

8

Related Issue

2010

Issue Date

2018-07-01

Receive Date

2018-08-07

Publish Date

2018-07-01

Page Start

5,079

Page End

5,085

Print ISSN

1687-2002

Online ISSN

2090-7125

Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/article_10473.html

Detail API

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=10473

Order

22

Type

Original Article

Type Code

606

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

Publication Link

https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

The Role of Fibroscan as a Non-Invasive Predictor for Oesophageal Varices in Post HCV Cirrhotic Egyptian Patients With or Without Bilhariziasis

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023