Monitoring the Natural Evolution and Response to Treatment of Post Liver Transplant Recurrent Hepatitis C Using Transient Elastography: Preliminary Results

In our study of patients left to their natural evolution, a slow increase of LS was normal. However, antiviral treatment appeared to decrease LS. TE can be very useful as a complementary test to biopsy for monitoring post-LT recurrent hepatitis C. A longer follow-up period and larger sample size could confirm these preliminary results.