Hepatic fibrosis causes liver dysfunction and HCC. Since hepatic fibrosis is reversible dynamic condition, its monitoring is important to predict long term outcome and to determine treatment plan.~The reference of standard to diagnose hepatic fibrosis is biopsy, but recently non-invasive method such as stiffness imaging has been drawing a lot of attention. In this study, ultrasound shear wave elastography will be performed and its diagnostic performance to detect advanced hepatic fibrosis (= > F2) will be measured using histologic grade as a reference.
The purpose of this study is to measure diagnostic performance of ultrasound shear wave elastography to detect advanced hepatic fibrosis.