Prediction of esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients with apparent diffusion coefficient of the spleen.

Purpose: To predict esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients with apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of the spleen and to correlate the ADC with clinical and laboratory biomarkers of esophageal varices.

Materials And Methods: This study was conducted upon 40 patients (28 male, 12 female; age ranged 19-45 years; mean age = 33 years) with biopsy-proven cirrhotic liver. Twenty age- and sex-matched healthy volunteers were included as a control group.