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Patient friendly liver fat measurements (CAP) in children with obesity compared with MRI-determined liver fat percentage.

Completed
Conditions
on-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH), Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), Obesity, Paediatrics, Hepatic Steatosis, FibroScan, 1H-MR Spectroscopy Proton Density Fat Fraction (MRS-PDFF)
Registration Number
NL-OMON28273
Lead Sponsor
Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine
Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria

Written informed consent from parent(s) and subject (when >12 years of age)

- For current patients:
• Clinically suspected or high risk profile of hepatic steatosis based on at least one of the following:
- abnormal echogenicity of liver in ultrasonography;
- elevated serum transaminases levels;
- high BMI (>+3 z-score) and/or waist circumference (>95 percentile);
- insulin resistance.

- For patients no longer in active follow-up:
• Liver steatosis detected during follow-up in this clinic in the last 3 years

Exclusion Criteria

- Age <8 and >18 years
- The need for anaesthesia during the MRI examination.
- General contra-indications for MRI scanning (use of MRI checklist, see document E4)
- Known focal liver lesion(s) in the right liver lobe (proven with histology results or imaging)
- Known concomitant liver disorders

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational non invasive
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Diagnostic accuracies of CAP and US for the detection of hepatic steatosis using 1H-MR Spectroscopy derived proton density fat fraction (MRS-PDFF) as reference standard.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1. Inter- and intraobserver variability for CAP-values;<br>2. Success rate of CAP-measurements;<br>3. Correlation between CAP-values and fat percentage at MRI-based liver fatmaps.<br>
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