A novel simple and reliable 2D-shear wave elastography (SWE) and ultrasound-guided coefficient attenuation parameter (SCAP) technique for patients with chronic liver disease

Conclusion:In patients with acute liver failure syndromes, shear wave elastography can help in the early clinical assessment at admission in intensive care.Plasma vWF is highly correlated RLSM and it can be speculated that the presence of platelets aggregates can be responsible of the increased values.Moreover histological analysis showed high degree of intrahepatic cholestasis in ACLF.Further studies are needed to definitely explain the high level of stiffness reported in these patients.