What Is a Liver Ultrasound? A liver ultrasound is a type of abdominal ultrasound, an imaging test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the organs and structures in your abdomen, ...
The liver has the important function of clearing the body of toxins, and when it doesn’t work correctly it can be deadly. Testing for liver disease used to entail a painful needle biopsy. But now, new ...
DETROIT — Karl Dennis of Detroit is a Henry Ford Hospital patient who has had liver concerns that require a needle biopsy. "It feels like the air is being knocked out of you when that procedure is ...
The National Institute for Health and Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended FibroScan, a non-invasive hepatic ultrasound scan, as an option for assessing liver damage from fibrosis and ...
WEBVTT WOMAN'S DOCTOR. MINDY: WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS A PROCEDURE CALLED A FIBROSCAN OF THE LIVER. IT'S NON-INVASIVE SIMILAR TO AN ULTRASOUND. IT MEASURES THE DEGREE OF SCARRING, OR FIBROSIS, ON THE ...
UChicago Medicine is using a new technology to destroy liver tumors without radiation, chemotherapy or even cutting the skin. Called histotripsy, it destroys tumors using sound waves. Amber Sikes was ...
Experts say about one in 10 Americans have some form of liver disease like hepatitis, cirrhosis or cancer.Many of those patients would have to undergo a core needle biopsy procedure, which is invasive ...