Fibroscan

Non-Invasive Liver Testing Technology

Your liver is the largest organ in your body and plays a vital role in your short-term and long-term health. That is why DMC professionals are taking steps towards innovating the way we care for your liver. The Gastroenterology team at the Meyers Lab, located within DMC Harper University Hospital, has technology that offers a noninvasive way to diagnose and manage liver diseases.

Most traditional methods used to test the liver involve invasive techniques to get a diagnosis. Liver biopsies are one of the most utilized methods. While biopsies are effective, they can be painful and require sedation. FibroScan measures fibrosis and steatosis in your liver with its patented ultrasound technology called Vibration Controlled Transient Elastrography (VCTE technology).

There are many advantages associated with using FibroScan’s non-invasive VCTE technology opposed to using traditional methods.

Advantages include:

• Testing done at your point of care
• The test is painless
• No sedation is required
• There is no downtime
• The test takes only minutes to perform.

Other benefits include being significantly less expensive than liver biopsy and not being associated with any negative side effects. Also, the test results are available much faster than with some traditional methods, giving our team the opportunity to make decisions during patient visits.