Fibrosis evaluation by transient elastography in alcoholic liver disease: Is the histological scoring system impacting cutoff values?

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Pathology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria.
• ² Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
• ³ Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
• ⁴ Institute of Liver studies, Liver Histopathology, King's College Hospital, London, UK.
• ⁵ Institute of Translational Immunology and Research Center for Immunotherapy, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany, Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, European Project on Steatohepatitis (EPOS).
• ⁶ Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, Department of Pathology, Aretaieio Hospital, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ⁷ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.