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How Much Alcohol Do You Have in Your Liver?
In this person, I've got HFEG mutations in a positive transfer and saturation in elevated ferritin. You don't even need an MRI to know that they have a risk for hemochromatosis. And then I use my fiber scan to tell me about what the risk of cirrhosis is in this clinic today. So you mentioned no MRI. Why wouldn't you want an MRI in this case? Or what sort of case would you find the MRI helpful? Is it important to quantify how much iron is in the liver? If you're testing, like if you do the FIB4 or you do the elastography,. okay, this person has advanced fibrosis.