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September 5, 2025MedicinaOpen Access

Dual Energy CT-Derived Liver Extracellular Volume Fraction for Assessing Liver Functional Reserve in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

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SHSeok Jin HongJKJi Eun KimJCJ. Cho

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Overview

Retrospective analysis assesses liver functional reserve in cirrhotic patients using dual-energy CT, suggesting fECV as a reliable marker.

Key Points

  • The liver extracellular volume fraction (fECV) significantly increases with advancing Child-Pugh classes, indicating liver dysfunction.
  • AUC for differentiating Child-Pugh classes shows fECV (0.78) outperforms Fibrosis-4 and APRI, while MELD remains superior.
  • High interobserver and intraobserver reliability of fECV measurements (ICC 0.93) confirms its consistency as a diagnostic tool.
  • This study supports the effectiveness of DECT-derived fECV as a noninvasive marker for assessing liver functional reserve.

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Hong et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c239a3b210217d6477cec1https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina61091561
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