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Lead
Massachusetts General Hospital
Age
1–21
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Patients scheduled for random liver biopsy for routine staging of liver fibrosis
Pediatric patients patients (ages 1-21)
Girls or boys
Suspected liver disease
Consent to participate in the study
You may not be if
Pregnancy
Acute illness/cognitive impairment resulting in inability to cooperate with ultrasound
Patients that do not consent to ultrasound guided liver biopsy.
Contraindications to liver biopsy (e.g. low platelets defined as a platelet count of less than 50,000, and hemophilia/coagulopathy as an INR higher than 1.5.)
Clareo Health | Ultrasound Method to Measure Fibrosis of the Liver in Children
