Preface

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major medical challenge because of its increasing prevalence, difficulties in diagnosis, complex pathogenesis, and lack of approved therapies. It includes a group of conditions starting with simple liver steatosis, which can develop into nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) or fibrosis, which can progress to cryptogenic cirrhosis, portal hypertension, or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and finally end-stage liver failure.

In the near future, it will become the major form of chronic liver disease in adults and children and the leading indication for liver transplantation.

It can be detected by noninvasive and invasive tools, and its treatment depends mainly on lifestyle modification to prevent disease progression and its related sequelae.

Divided into four sections, this book discusses some new topics related to NAFLD. The first section provides an introduction to NAFLD, the second section presents experimental work related to the disease, the third section discusses diseases related to NAFLD, and the final section examines new noninvasive tools to diagnose NAFLD.

The book provides information on NAFLD prevalence, etiology, pathogenesis, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment as well.

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**Section 4**

NAFLD Patients

New Diagnostic Tools for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease **113**

**Chapter 6 115**

Current Noninvasive MR-Based Imaging Methods in Assessing

*by Diana Feier, Delia Muntean, Nina Bastati and Ahmed Ba-Ssalamah*

**Emad Hamdy Gad** Associate professor of hepatobiliary surgery, National liver institute, Menoufia University, Egypt

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Section 1

Introduction to

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver

Disease

Section 1
