Albumin and magnetic resonance imaging-liver volume to identify hepatitis B-related cirrhosis and esophageal varices

Figure 1 Outline of each liver lobe. Right liver lobe is differentiated from the left liver lobe by the middle liver fissure (black line), and the discrimination between the left lateral liver lobe and the left medial liver lobe is provided by the liver interlobar fissure (green line) on the level of the fossa for gallbladder. The connecting line (red) between the inferior vena cava (IVC) and the right branch of the portal vein (PV) is used to distinguish the right lobe (RL) from the caudate lobe (CL). The profiles of the RL, left lateral liver lobe (LLL), left medial liver lobe (LML) and CL are drawn on the axial portal venous phase enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, and marked in pink, blue, purple and red, respectively.

Figure 2 Receiver operating characteristic curves of liver lobe volume parameters to identify the presence, and Child-Pugh class, of liver cirrhosis in patients with hepatitis B, and the presence of esophageal varices. The figures show that the ratio of caudate lobe volume to albumin (CV/ALB), left lateral liver lobe volume (LLV), right liver lobe volume (RV), the ratio of LLV to albumin (LLV/ALB) and the ratio of RV to albumin (RV/ALB) could be recommended as an indicator for distinguishing cirrhotic patients from healthy participants (A), Child-Pugh class A from B (B), class A from C (C), class B from C (D), and cirrhotic patients with esophageal varices from those without esophageal varices (E), respectively.