Liver stiffness identifies two different patterns of fibrosis progression in patients with hepatitis C virus recurrence after liver transplantation
José A. Carrión, Ferran Torres, Gonzalo Crespo, Rosa Miquel, Juan‐Carlos García‐Valdecasas, Miquel Navasa, Xavier Forns – 23 December 2009 – Significant liver fibrosis (F ≥ 2) and portal hypertension (hepatic venous pressure gradient [HVPG] ≥ 6 mmHg) at 1 year after liver transplantation (LT) identify patients with severe hepatitis C recurrence. We evaluated whether repeated liver stiffness measurements (LSM) following LT can discriminate between slow and rapid “fibrosers” (fibrosis stage F2‐F4 at 1 year after LT).