CT/MRI LI-RADS update meets AASLD liver cancer guidance

The American College of Radiology Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System steering committee developed and approved a new version of the CT/MRI LI-RADS — a comprehensive system for standardizing the acquisition, interpretation, reporting and data collection of liver imaging — according to a press release.

According to the press release, this new version meets a critical milestone of integration into the America Association for the Study of Liver Diseases’ 2018 hepatocellular carcinoma clinical practice guidance.

“By implementing two minor changes to CT/MRI LI-RADS, we were able to unify LI-RADS with AASLD,” Claude B. Sirlin, MD, chair of the LI-RADS Steering Committee. “Harmonizing these two guidance systems for liver imaging will further reduce imaging interpretation variability and errors, enhance communication with referring clinicians, enable the collection of standardized data and ultimately yield better patient outcomes.”

The updated v2018 Core is available online and revises the definition of the LI-RADS major feature threshold growth and one category 5 criterion. The American College of Radiology intends to return to an update cycle of every 3 years to 4 years and anticipates a comprehensive update to CT/MRI LI-RADS in 2021.

Reference: www.acr.org