超音波検査技術

ISSN: 1881-4506
一般社団法人日本超音波検査学会
〒162-0801 東京都新宿区山吹町358-5
Japanese Journal of Medical Ultrasound Technology 44(1): 17-25 (2019)
doi:10.11272/jss.44.17

原著Original Article

Shear Wave Elastographyによる非アルコール性脂肪肝疾患の肝線維化評価Diagnosis of Fibrosis Using Shear Wave Elastography in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

1川崎医科大学総合医療センター検査センターKawasaki Medical School General Medical Center Physiological Laboratory

2川崎医科大学検査診断学(内視鏡・超音波)Kawasaki Medical School Division of Endoscopy and Ultrasonography, Department of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

3川崎医科大学総合内科学2Kawasaki Medical School Department of General Internal Medicine 2

受付日:2018年3月28日Received: March 28, 2018
受理日:2018年10月29日Accepted: October 29, 2018
発行日:2019年2月1日Published: February 1, 2019
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目的:非アルコール性脂肪肝炎(Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: NASH)の予後因子として肝線維化進展が重要であり,肝線維化評価を非侵襲的に行う必要がある.そこで非アルコール性脂肪性肝疾患(Non-alcholic fatty liver disease: NAFLD)患者に対し超音波を用いたShear Wave Elastography(SWE)による肝剪断速度測定を行い,肝生検による線維化stage診断と比較しその有用性について検討した.

対象と方法:2016年4月から2017年3月の間にSWEを施行し,肝生検による組織評価が同時に可能であったNAFLD患者93名を対象として,両検査結果を比較検討した.また,皮下脂肪とBMIの影響を検討した.超音波診断装置はキヤノンメディカルシステムズ社製Aplio500™ Ver.6, 3.75 MHzコンベックスプローブを用いた.

結果と考察:皮下脂肪やBMIの影響で測定不良であったものは29.3%であった.剪断速度は軽度の線維化では上昇がみられなかったが,線維化stage3以上で有意に上昇し,カットオフ値は1.52 m/s(7.1 kPa)であった.また,炎症grade間にも有意差を認めたが脂肪化steatosisとの関係はみられなかった.SWE測定には皮下脂肪・BMIの影響がある症例を認めたが,肝内脂肪の影響は少ないと思われた.

結語:SWEはNAFLDの肝線維化診断に有用であると考えられた.

Background: The progression of liver fibrosis is an important prognostic factor of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and assessing the liver fibrosis stage is important in NASH patients. In this study, liver fibrosis measurements using ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) were carried out in NASH patients, and the usefulness of SWE was examined by comparing the findings with fibrosis stages based on liver biopsy results.

Methods: The study was carried out on 93 patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), who had been examined with both SWE and liver biopsy at the same time between April 2016 and March 2017. Aplio 500™ with 3.75 MHz convex probe (Canon Medical Systems) was used as the diagnostic ultrasound equipment.

Results and discussion: The NASH patients showed a positive correlation between the liver fibrosis stage and the shear speed found in SWE. The SWE was significantly higher in Stage 3 than in Stages 0-2 (p<0.0001; cut off, 1.52 m/s (7.1 kPa)). There was a correlation between SWE and liver fibrosis grade, but no correlation between SWE and intrahepatic fat. Examination by SWE was unsuccessful in 29.3% of patients due to subcutaneous fat and BMI. Although subcutaneous fat and BMI were observed to affect SWE measurements in some patients, intrahepatic fat had little effect.

Conclusions: SWE is useful as a non-invasive method for the diagnosis of fibrosis in NASH patients.

Key words: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis; Shear wave elastography; Liver fibrosis; Subcutaneous fat; Body mass Index

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