Publications by authors named "Livio Belloli"
Background: Several studies in healthy populations have investigated normal liver stiffness on transient elastography, but none has excluded subjects with fatty liver.
Aims: To define normal liver stiffness and its determinants in 923 healthy voluntary blood donors with and without fatty liver.
Methods: Seven hundred and forty six subjects were analyzed with transient elastography according to the absence (602) or presence of fatty liver (144) at ultrasonography.