Recently my mother underwent Firboscan test, she has median - 41.2 , IQR - 10.1, IQR % age - 24%.Can u tell me the level of liver damage.

[zaraki]

She also had an HVPG test with HVPG-13.5 mm of HG. My doctor is keeping us in darkness about the the whole damage %age and treatment. This has led to confusion about the whole problem. Can u please guide us in the right direction and please donot lie about the bad results. Thanx in advance

[Hidden]

Sorry zaraki.

This is quite beyond me. I am in the UK and all I seemed to get back in 2010 the year I was diagnosed with PBC was this test was 'abnormal', this one was 'low', 'positive', etc and no figures. I did ask for the print-out of the bloods I was having (the liver function test, full blood count) due to wanting to know what was what and I have been receiving ever since.

I find the only way to get answers you require is to ask outright what such-and-such means when it is mentioned. Some doctors can skirt round the issue and say things that bit gentler so as not to alarm a patient but if a patient asks exactly what the doctor is referring then usually you would find out.

I am one who likes to know simply because I have experienced in the past (not with myself) that sometimes a doctor can read something wrong or even get it wrong.

I've not had a fibroscan, they seem to be quite rare at present in the UK under the NHS but I expect at some point in future they will appear in most hospitals.

[zaraki in reply to Hidden]

thanks for sharing your experience....I have got it all sorted out, it seems that it is the starting phase of cirhossis.