Can Nonfibrotic Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Be Effectively Identified by Supersonic Shear Imaging?

Table 1

Pathologic characteristics of rabbit models.

	Control group; ()	HFD-4w group; ()	HFD-8w group; ()	HFD-12w group; ()
Pathologic findings
Steatosis grade	8/2/0/0	0/6/4/0	0/1/3/5	0/2/5/1
Ballooning grade	9/1/0	2/8/0	1/4/4	0/2/6
Inflammation grade	9/1/0/0	4/5/1/0	0/1/6/2	0/0/5/3
Fibrosis stage	10/0/0/0/0	10/0/0/0/0	6/3/0/0/0	0/3/3/2/0
NAS	8/2/0/0	0/4/6/0	0/0/1/8	0/0/0/8

HFD: high-fat diet; NAS: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease activity score.