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Liver fibro scan score

2024-07-08 18:05:47
My mother's has a NAFLD with a little elevated liver enzymes. She did Fibroscan and score came 24kPa means cirrhosis. My query is having full lunch an hour before Fibroscan impacts the score? Because she had lunch an hour before the scan was done.
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Fibroscan should be done in fasting state. Kindly get the scan repeated after overnight fasting

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Fibroscan has to interpreted by good gastroenterologist as it has many clauses fibrosis score has to be interpreted against steatosis or fat score and it also depends on condition or disease of patient
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Repeat fibroscan by a gastroenterologist in fasting state both cap score and fibrosis score is to be measured

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