THE INNOVATIVE ULTRASONIC TECHNOLOGIES IN THE EVALUATION OF THE EFFICACY OF TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS
There are reported data of ultrasonic quantitative assessment of the structure of the liver parenchyma with the aid of Acoustic structure Quantification and fibroelastometry. There were examined 126 children aged from 2 months to 18 years with pulmonary intestinal form of cystic fibrosis (CF). The ultrasonographic signs of the efficacy of the therapy of CF were established to be the reduction in size and echogenicity of the liver parenchyma, the improvement of intrahepatic hemodynamic parameters in the form of normalization of the shape of the blood flow curve in the middle hepatic vein, the stabilization stage of fibrosis, reduction in the size of the pancreas and the number of cysts in her parenchyma.