Assessment of liver disease in patients with chronic hepatitis C and unhealthy alcohol use

Table 1 Studies that have used transient elastography in patients with alcohol-related liver disease

Ref.	Number of patients	Advanced liver fibrosis (≥ 3)	Sensitivity1	Specificity1
Nguyen-Khac et al[58], 2018	103	51%	87%	80%
Nahon et al[59], 2008	147	75%	87%	89%
Kim et al[107], 2009	45	80%	97%	78%
Mueller et al[57], 2010	101	45%	91%	75%
Janssens et al[60], 2010	49	65%	72%	76%
Fernandez et al[61], 2015	135	53%	91%	68%

¹Sensitivity and specificity are calculated using liver biopsy as the gold standard.