In vivo confirmation of altered hepatic glucose metabolism in patients with liver fibrosis/cirrhosis by 18F-FDG PET/CT

In vivo confirmation of altered hepatic glucose metabolism in patients with liver fibrosis/cirrhosis by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to assess the value of 18F-FDG PET/CT for quantitative assessment of hepatic metabolism in patients with different stages of liver fibrosis/cirrhosis. Materials and methods 18F-FDG PET/CT scans of 37 patients either with or without liver fibrosis/cirrhosi...

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Main Authors: Niklas Verloh, Ingo Einspieler, Kirsten Utpatel, Karin Menhart, Stefan Brunner, Frank Hofheinz, Jörg van den Hoff, Philipp Wiggermann, Matthias Evert, Christian Stroszczynski, Dirk Hellwig, Jirka Grosse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-11-01
Series:EJNMMI Research
Subjects:
18F-FDG PET/CT
Hepatic metabolism
Liver fibrosis
Liver cirrhosis
FDG kinetics
METAVIR score
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13550-018-0452-y

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