NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR STAGES OF HEPATIC FIBROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATITIS Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC A61B5/00 A61B8/00 G01N33/48 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: patient is subjected to a general and biochemical blood examination and abdominal organs ultrasound. Age, absolute content of thrombocytes, thymol sample, relative content of blood albumin, thickness of the right lobe of the liver, length of the spleen, width of the spleen, area of the spleen, ratio of the sum of the areas of the right and left liver lobes sections to the area of the spleen, diameter of the splenic vein is determined. The values of the classification functions of the fibrosis stages KF₁-KF₄ are calculated according to the claimed formulas. The stage of liver fibrosis, for which thee classification function index with the highest value is adopted, is determined.

EFFECT: method allows to accurately and non-invasively determine the stages of liver fibrosis by evaluating a complex of the most significant indicators.

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