Prospective validation of imaging and serum diagnostic biomarkers of steatohepatitis and fibrosis in MASLD: the LITMUS Imaging Study
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2026年7月24日
- Michael Pavlides,
- Yasaman Vali,
- Ferenc E. Mózes,
- Kristy Wonders,
- Salma Akhtar,
- Paul D. Hockings,
- Elizabeth Shumbayawonda,
- Kay Pepin,
- Isabel Fernandez-Lizaranzu,
- Diana Julie Leeming,
- Jeremy F. Cobbold,
- Michael E. D. Allison,
- Guruprasad P. Aithal,
- Manuel Romero-Gomez,
- Rocio Aller,
- Juan M. Pericàs,
- Jérôme Boursier,
- Salvatore Petta,
- Jörn M. Schattenberg,
- Mattias Ekstedt,
- Annalisa Berzigotti,
- Hannele Yki-Järvinen,
- Miljen Martic,
- Theresa Tuthill,
- Clifford A. Brass,
- Michael Kalutkiewicz,
- Rajarshi Banerjee,
- Richard L. Ehman,
- Moritz J. Schneider,
- Dina Tiniakos,
- Morten Karsdal,
- Jeremy Magnanensi,
- Céline Fournier-Poizat,
- Vlad Ratziu,
- Carla Yunis,
- Elisabetta Bugianesi,
- Stephen A. Harrison,
- Quentin M. Anstee,
- Ann Daly,
- Fiona Oakley,
- Simon J. Cockell,
- Dina Tiniakos,
- Pierre Bedossa,
- Heather J. Cordell,
- Christopher P. Day,
- Kristy Wonders,
- Olivier Govaere,
- Paolo Missier,
- Matthew McTeer,
- Luke Vale,
- Yemi Oliboyede,
- Matt Breckons,
- Patrick M. Bossuyt,
- Yasaman Vali,
- Jenny Lee,
- Max Nieuwdorp,
- Yair Acherman,
- Arnold van de Laar,
- Athanasios Angelakis,
- Adriaan G. Holleboom,
- Vlad Ratziu,
- Karine Clément,
- Rafael Patino-Navarrete,
- Raluca Pais,
- Valerie Paradis,
- Mathilde Wagner,
- Jörn M. Schattenberg,
- Maurice Michel,
- Detlef Schuppan,
- Sudha Myneni,
- Rambabu Surabattula,
- Beate K. Straub,
- Emrich Tilman,
- Toni Vidal-Puig,
- Sergio Rodrigues-Cuenca,
- Ioannis Kamzolas,
- Evangelia Petsalaki,
- Mark Campbell,
- Chris J. Lelliott,
- Michael E. D. Allison,
- Susan Davies,
- Edmund Godfrey,
- Michele Vacca,
- Matej Orešič,
- Aidan McGlinchey,
- Tuulia Hyötyläinen,
- Jose M. Mato,
- Óscar Millet,
- Annalisa Berzigotti,
- Jean-François Dufour,
- Naomi F. Lange,
- Adrian T. Huber,
- Michael Pavlides,
- Jeremy F. Cobbold,
- Stefan Neubauer,
- Ferenc E. Mozes,
- Salma Akhtar,
- Stephen A. Harrison,
- Seliat Olodo-Atitebi,
- Rajarshi Banerjee,
- Elizabeth Shumbayawonda,
- Andrea Dennis,
- Anneli Andersson,
- Manuel Romero-Gómez,
- Rocío Gallego-Durán,
- Rocío Montero-Vallejo,
- Isabel Fernandez-Lizarazu,
- Sheila Gato,
- Javier Castell,
- Morten Karsdal,
- Diana Julie Leeming,
- Kishwar Musa,
- Maria Manuela Tonini,
- Elisabetta Bugianesi,
- Chiara Rosso,
- Angelo Armandi,
- Ricardo Faletti,
- Fabio Marra,
- Amalia Gastaldelli,
- Fabrizia Carli,
- Gianluca Svegliati-Baroni,
- Jérôme Boursier,
- Marc de Saint Loup,
- Pierre Celea,
- Christophe Aube,
- Sven M. A. Francque,
- Wilhelmus J. Kwanten,
- Luisa Vonghia,
- An Verrijken,
- Eveline Dirinck,
- Ann Driessen,
- Mattias Ekstedt,
- Stergios Kechagias,
- Peter Lundberg,
- Hannele Yki-Järvinen,
- Kimmo Porthan,
- Johanna Arola,
- Saskia van Mil,
- George Papatheodoridis,
- Helena Cortez-Pinto,
- Mariana Verdelho Machado,
- Sofia Carvalhana,
- Cecilia M. P. Rodrigues,
- Luca V. C. Valenti,
- Serena Pelusi,
- Salvatore Petta,
- Grazia Penisi,
- Rosaria Maria Pipitone,
- Adele Tulone,
- Stefania Grimaudo,
- Michela Antonucci,
- Luca Miele,
- Antonio Liguori,
- Francesca D’Ambrosio,
- Andreas Geier,
- P. D. Monika Rau,
- Hans Benno Leicht,
- Florian Reiter,
- Guruprasad P. Aithal,
- Susan Francis,
- Naaventhan Palaniyappan,
- Christopher Bradley,
- Paul D. Hockings,
- Moritz J. Schneider,
- Philip N. Newsome,
- David Wenn,
- Jeremy Magnanensi,
- Aldo Trylesinski,
- Rebeca Mayo,
- Cristina Alonso,
- Kevin L. Duffin,
- James W. Perfield,
- Mark L. Hartman,
- Yu Chen,
- Carla Yunis,
- Theresa Tuthill,
- Trenton Ross,
- Barbara Bernardo,
- Magdalena Alicja Harrington,
- Euan McLeod,
- Judith Ertle,
- Ramy Younes,
- Harvey Coxson,
- Joseph Gogain,
- Hannah R. Biegel,
- Leigh Alexander,
- Rachel Ostroff,
- Mette Skalshøi Kjær,
- Lea Mørch Harder,
- Sanne S. Veidal,
- Naba Al-Sari,
- Daniel Guldager Kring Rasmussen,
- Maria-Magdalena Balp,
- Clifford A. Brass,
- Lori Jennings,
- Miljen Martic,
- Jurgen Loffler,
- Douglas Applegate,
- Richard Torstenson,
- Daniel Lindén,
- Céline Fournier-Poizat,
- Anne Llorca,
- Michael Kalutkiewicz,
- Richard L. Ehman,
- Kay Pepin,
- Gerald Horan,
- Gideon Ho,
- Dean Tai,
- Elaine Chng,
- Yayun Ren,
- Scott D. Patterson,
- Andrew N. Billin,
- Lynda C. Doward,
- James Twiss,
- Paresh Thakker,
- Zoltan Derdak,
- Henrik Landgren,
- Carolin Lackner,
- Annette S. H. Gouw,
- Prodromos Hytiroglou,
- Rocio Aller,
- Rebeca Sigüenza González,
- Juan M. Pericàs,
- Salvador Agustin,
- Jesús M. Rivera-Esteban,
- Sergio Muñoz-Martínez,
- Alba M. Jiménez-Masip,
- Laura Pagès,
- Diego Rojo,
- Patrick M. Bossuyt,
- Quentin M. Anstee
摘要
There is a need for robust evaluations of noninvasive biomarkers for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. This prospective multicenter study assessed the diagnostic accuracy of imaging (including liver stiffness measurement (LSM) using magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) and FibroScan (vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE)), serum biomarkers (including NIS2+) and composite scores (including Agile 3+ and Agile 4) for centrally read steatohepatitis and fibrosis. For cirrhosis, several biomarkers exceeded the minimum acceptable performance criterion (MAC), including MRE (area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) 0.91; P < 0.01), VCTE-LSM (AUC 0.87; P < 0.01), Agile 3+ (AUC 0.89; P < 0.01) and Agile 4 (AUC 0.88; P < 0.01). Among 357 participants, fibrosis stages F0–F4 were present in 12%, 16%, 25%, 32% and 15%, respectively. NIS2+ had the highest diagnostic accuracy among serum biomarkers for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH; AUC 0.83) and at-risk MASH (MASH with at least stage 2 fibrosis; AUC 0.82), although neither significantly exceeded the MAC (P = 0.15 and P = 0.19). Among imaging biomarkers, MRE showed the highest performance for MASH (AUC 0.71) and at-risk MASH (AUC 0.75), but these remained below the MAC. For fibrosis staging, performance was stronger: MRE met the MAC for advanced fibrosis (AUC 0.91; P < 0.01), as did Agile 3+ (AUC 0.84; P = 0.03). For cirrhosis, several biomarkers exceeded the MAC, including MRE (AUC 0.91; P < 0.01), VCTE-LSM (AUC 0.87; P < 0.01), Agile 3+ (AUC 0.89; P < 0.01) and Agile 4 (AUC 0.88; P < 0.01). Serum biomarkers tended to outperform imaging for identifying at-risk MASH, whereas elastography and composite scores showed excellent accuracy for staging advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis.