Liver disease management

Advances in ultrasound and other related technologies continue to create improvements and new options in how you care for your patients. For some interventional procedures, ultrasound provides a less-invasive alternative with benefits for your department, and your patients.

Diagnosis/Monitoring – Ultrasound plays a key role in the primary assessment of liver lesions and various other liver diseases, such as hepatitis and cirrhosis.

Planning – Along with high resolution imaging, new volumetric imaging and assisted volume measurements could offer more effective clinical tools to plan interventional procedures.

Guidance – Ultrasound’s unique dynamic imaging capability helps guide biopsies and monitor ablation therapy requirements in real time.

Assessment – Post-treatment imaging provides additional verification of treatment status.

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Extending your boundaries

In addition to mainstream biopsy needle guidance, cutting-edge technologies allow you to plan and image ablation procedures in your department. Exceptional image quality and optimization make it possible for you to clearly see and follow the needle path. One-button automation means you have the best possible image quality and you won’t be focused on controls, but on the procedure and your patient. Using volumetric imaging, you can view the target in three dimensions to fully visualize all its borders and be confident the procedure is progressing as planned. And using xMATRIX you can view the target from multiple angles simultaneously for views not obtained before minimally invasively. Ultrasound allows you to review the images instantly and determine immediately if the ablation is complete, and if not, immediately continue the procedure. There’s suggestion of further enhancements as ultrasound contrast agents are approved.

Your patients will experience less pain, discomfort and anxiety. Required hospital stays are usually the minimum length. In the end, your department has increased revenue and healthcare costs are reduced.