Fibroscan Test and Its Price in India

Fibroscan stands for a medical device specifically made to interpret the health of your liver. Healthcare provider recommend fibroscan to make sure that your liver is healthy and do not have any liver fibrosis due to any liver damage and liver disease. Transient elastography is an advanced technique used to measure the stiffness of the liver.

Fibroscan test can detect the initial scarring called fibrosis as well as cirrhosis with the capability of testing the extent of the scarring.

Fibroscan or ultrasound

Fibroscan is basically like an ultrasound of your liver. If you are wondering what is the difference between these tests, then really there is no as such difference because the technique used in fibroscan known as transient elastography is actually an ultrasound-based modality or you can say that it is just an enhanced version of ultrasound.

The procedure of this test is as comfortable as a regular ultrasound that many people have gone through at least once in their life.

When this test gets recommended

If someone is going through these following issues

• Alcoholic liver diseases where liver has been damaged by constant alcohol consumption
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases where increased amount of fat starts getting stored in the liver cells and starts causing damage.
• If someone has got viral infection like hepatitis B and hepatitis C and liver has been inflamed.
• When excessive amounts of iron starts getting stored in the organs and it can also be the reason of liver damage and other complications

How to interpret your test reports

• There are two important points to keep in mind for this test that are cap score and fibrosis score. Cap scores measures the fatty change in the liver where the lowest the fatty chain the healthier liver you have.
• 5% and lower – healthy liver
• 5% to 30%-   mild fatty liver
• More than 30% means a risky amount of fat in the liver that can cause liver damage.
• Second important thing is fibrosis score which is measured in kPa(kilopascals).
• F0 to F1- healthy liver or mild scars
• The highest score is f4 and represent severe liver damage.

Documents required

• Doctor’s prescription
• A valid government issued id proof

Cost of Fibroscan test

Cost of this test can be from INR 6,000 to INR 7,000 according to your chosen lab.

Why Choose Ganesh Diagnostic

Ganesh diagnostic has been in the pathology industry for years because of our clients trust in our abilities. We provide the best pathological services to the patients at an affordable price. Our labs contain high tech machines according to the latest market trend that provides highly accurate results.