Increased Hepatic Stiffness in Young Adults After Biventricular Repair of Congenital Heart Disease.

Background: This study evaluated hepatic stiffness by shear wave elastography to investigate subclinical hepatic changes in a cohort of patients with congenital biventricular heart disease (BHD).

Methods: The BHD patients and age-matched healthy controls were prospectively recruited for hepatic ultrasonography and shear wave elastography. Real-time B-mode imaging with Doppler was performed for celiac axis, superior mesenteric artery, and main portal vein, and hepatic shear wave elastography was assessed.

Hepatic stiffness in the bidirectional cavopulmonary circulation: The Liver Adult-Pediatric-Congenital-Heart-Disease Dysfunction Study group.

Objectives: We hypothesized that hepatic injury in single-ventricle CHD has origins that predate the Fontan operation. We aimed to measure hepatic stiffness using ultrasound and shear wave elastography (SWE) in a bidirectional cavopulmonary connection (BCPC) cohort.

Methods: Subjects were prospectively recruited for real-time, hepatic, ultrasound-SWE for hepatic stiffness (kPa) and echocardiography.

Increased hepatic stiffness as consequence of high hepatic afterload in the Fontan circulation: a vascular Doppler and elastography study.

Unlabelled: Hepatic dysfunction is a recognized complication after Fontan palliation of congenital heart disease. We sought to quantitatively measure hepatic stiffness and vascular Doppler indices using ultrasound (US) and shear wave elastography (SWE) in a Fontan cohort. Subjects were prospectively recruited for echocardiography and real-time hepatic duplex US with SWE for hepatic stiffness (kPa).