Comparison of a Handheld Elastography Device With iLivTouch in Chronic Liver Disease Patients

Exclusion Criteria

• •Chronic liver disease due to other etiologies (e.g., other viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease, alcoholic liver disease, genetic/metabolic liver disease).
• •Evidence of decompensated cirrhosis.
• •Total bilirubin \> 51 μmol/L.
• •ALT \> 5 × upper normal limit.
• •Presence of hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatic hemangioma, large hepatic cyst, or other space-occupying liver lesions.
• •Co-infection with HIV.
• •History of liver transplantation or TIPS.
• •Pregnancy.
• •Congestive hepatopathy.
• •Unhealed wounds in the right upper abdomen.
• •Inability to maintain the required sitting position.