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REVIEW article

Front. Med.

Sec. Hepatobiliary Diseases

Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1647629

This article is part of the Research TopicDigital Technologies in Hepatology: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Epidemiological InsightsView all 14 articles

Revolutionizing Portal Hypertension Diagnosis: The Rise of Non-Invasive Techniques in Liver Cirrhosis

Provisionally accepted
Bocheng  GaoBocheng Gao1Yumeng  LinYumeng Lin2Huimin  ZhangHuimin Zhang3Yulin  LiYulin Li1Shuhua  GouShuhua Gou1Peiling  MaPeiling Ma1Xueni  ZhaoXueni Zhao1Yue  ZhouYue Zhou1Qian  ChenQian Chen1Lan  YuanLan Yuan1Zhongyu  HanZhongyu Han1*Chang  YuChang Yu1
  • 1Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China
  • 2Nanjing Tongren Hospital, Nanjing, China
  • 3Anhui Medical University School of Basic Medical Sciences, Hefei, China

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Liver cirrhosis is associated with serious complications of portal hypertension (PH), which ultimately causes variceal bleeding and ascites in a life-threatening manner. Non-invasive diagnostic techniques have evolved as an essential tool of early detection and management from a stand point of being dependent on invasive diagnostic techniques. This review summarizes the most recent progress in noninvasive diagnostic possibilities in PH in liver cirrhosis in terms of its clinical use and future outlook. A literature review within the last decade and beyond revealed such studies which developed and utilised the indexing technique such as transient elastography, shear wave elastography and other more advanced imaging modalities. Non-invasive techniques which can be used to diagnose PH and monitor it have been made and have been shown to have the possibility of obviating invasive 2 procedures. Given that these are noninvasive techniques, they represent valuable alternatives to invasive PH testing, and future work needs to be directed toward increasing accuracy of these tests and implementing these techniques into routine clinical practise.

Keywords: Liver Cirrhosis, non-invasive diagnostic techniques, portal hypertension (PH), shear wave elastography (SWE), Transient elastography (TE)

Received: 16 Jun 2025; Accepted: 31 Jul 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Gao, Lin, Zhang, Li, Gou, Ma, Zhao, Zhou, Chen, Yuan, Han and Yu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Zhongyu Han, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China

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