10/25/2026
Liver fat and liver scarring are different, and understanding both is central to assessing liver health.
For Liver Awareness Month, Texas Liver Care’s Patient Education Series explores how non-invasive testing helps us assess and monitor liver disease. Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) helps estimate the degree of scarring and can be obtained using several technologies, including FibroScan, visualized transient elastography (ViTE), and ultrasound shear-wave elastography.
This week’s video features FibroScan to explain the differences between steatosis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis, what CAP and kPa measurements mean, and how we interpret these results in the context of each patient’s health.
Understanding your numbers, and how they change over time, can help guide your care.