Assessment of disease severity in patients with liver cirrhosis is of great clinical importance and allows outcome prediction and overall mortality risk estimation. In the present study, we investigated the diagnostic utility of MRI-derived extracellular volume fraction (ECV) for the assessment of liver cirrhosis severity and differentiation between different Child-Pugh classes. Our study results demonstrated a high diagnostic performance of ECV for the assessment of liver cirrhosis severity and offer a reliable discrimination between different Child-Pugh classes. ECV might be a new quantitative marker for the assessment of liver cirrhosis severity, which can be calculated from quantitative liver MRI.
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