FibroScan®: Painless, Accurate, Noninvasive Way to Assess Liver Health
Forest Hills Gastroenterology P.C, a leader in healthcare management of Gastrointestinal and Liver disease, now offers FibroScan® to assess liver health and support early detection and management of liver disease.
Liver disease, such as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), is associated with obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes and other metabolic risk factors. One in three Americans have liver disease.
Maintaining good liver health is important to your overall health. That’s why physicians at Forest Hills Gastroenterology use FDA-approved FibroScan®:
- Quick: takes just 10 minutes
- Noninvasive and painless
FibroScan: How it works
- The patients lie comfortably on an exam table
- The medical professional applies a water-based gel on the patient’s skin and places the FibroScan® probe on the right side of the ribcage
- The medical professional then takes 10 quick, painless measurements
- Results are immediate for the physician to interpret
For more information about FibroScan® at FOREST HILLS GASTROENTEROLOGY please contact 718 268-0418
Reference
Caminiti, Susan; More than 80 million Americans have this deadly disease, and many don’t even know it’ CNBC; Nov. 1, 2017; https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/31/fatty-liver-disease-affects-80-million-americans.html; accessed July 23, 2020