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Role of Splenic 2D-Shear Wave Elastography in Diagnosis of Portal Hypertension in Cirrhotic Patients

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Last updated: 27 Apr 2025

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Background: Portal hypertension as a result of liver cirrho-sis, which lead to severe clinical symptoms and death. Spleen stiffness measurements (SSM) are a noninvasive, simple tech-nique has a correlation with the hepatic venous pressure gradi-ent (HVPG). Aim of Study: This study aimed to determine whether SSM can predict high-risk varices in patients with liver cirrhosis. Patients and Methods: This is a case control study, which took place between December 2021 and April 2022 at the Kasr Al-Ainy Radiology Department's ultrasound unit, 22 patients with cirrhotic patients and 24 healthy controls participated. SSM and ultrasound were performed in correlated to endoscop-ic findings of varices. Results: Patients were 17 males and 5 female with mean age (49.8), age was positively weakly linked with high shear wave elastography (SWE) values with a p-value of 0.046. p-values of 0.011 indicated a statistically significant difference between high SWE values and higher grade esophageal varices. Age and SWE of >29 kpa are independent predictors of liver cirrhosis, according to multivariate regression analysis, with p-values of 0.016 and 0.002, respectively, and an OR for SWE of 27.2 (3.3-220.3). Conclusion: SSM By 2D-shear wave elastography is a good method for assessment of liver cirrhosis and associated clinically significant portal hypertension.

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10.21608/mjcu.2025.422743

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Liver cirrhosis, Portal Hypertension, Splenic stiffness, SWE

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AHMED RAMADAN MOHAMED, M.D.*; SAHAR S. ABDALLAH EISSA, M.Sc.**;

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HATEM M.S. EL AZIZI, M.D.** and AMR A. HASSAN, M.D.**

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The Departments of Endemic Medicine* and Radiodiagnosis**, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

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93

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03

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55142

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2025-03-01

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2025-04-16

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2025-03-01

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65

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71

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0045-3803

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2536-9806

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The Medical Journal of Cairo University

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Role of Splenic 2D-Shear Wave Elastography in Diagnosis of Portal Hypertension in Cirrhotic Patients

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27 Apr 2025