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Podcast: Surfing the MASH Tsunami
Episode: S2-E52.2 - How Liver Stiffness Measures Can Improve Practical Patient Management
Description: Alina Allen and Ian Rowe discuss how Liver Stiffness Measurements (LSM) can improve individual patient treatment in pre-cirrhotic and compensated cirrhotic patients. Their comments stem from Alina's presentation of the recent Mayo Clinic paper, "MRE for Prediction of Long-Term Progression and Outcome in Chronic Liver Disease: A Retrospective Study." In this conversation, Alina summarizes the paper, after which Stephen Harrison asks questions about availability of subgroup analysis.Ian starts this section by noting the challenges in relying on fibrosis when managing individual patients practically and wonders whether LSM might do a better job here. Alina...