Real-world performance of transient elastography in assessing advanced fibrosis in Chinese patients with primary biliary cholangitis
Jia-Liang Chen, Yi-Xin Hou, Yao Liu, Yu-Yong Jiang, Xian-Bo Wang, Center of Integrative Medicine, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100015, China
Author contributions: Chen JL, Hou YX, Liu Y, Jiang YY, and Wang XB contributed to material preparation, data collection, and analysis. Chen JL wrote the first draft of the manuscript; Wang XB supervised the report. All authors contributed to the study conception and design, read and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by the Capital’s Funds for Health Improvement and Research, No. CFH2024-1-2173; State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine High-Level Key Disciplines Construction Project, No. zyyzdxk-2023005; and the Scientific Research Fund Project of Beijing Ditan Hospital, No. DTDR202403.
Institutional review board statement: The study protocol was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 and approved by the Ethics Committee of Beijing Ditan Hospital, Beijing, China (No. DTEC-KT2022-010-01).
Informed consent statement: As this study used anonymous and pre-existing data, the requirement for informed consent from patients was waived.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Xian-Bo Wang, MD, Chief Physician, Professor, Center of Integrative Medicine, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 8 Jing Shun East Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015, China.
wangxb@ccmu.edu.cn
Received: June 26, 2025
Revised: August 13, 2025
Accepted: September 24, 2025
Published online: November 7, 2025
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