Monitoring Fatty Liver Disease with MRI Following Bariatric Surgery: A Prospective, Dual-Center Study

Using chemical shift-encoded MRI, our study evaluated the longitudinal change in liver fat content in severely obeseadults who underwent bariatricsurgery with a preoperative very low calorie diet. Our results showed that decrease in liver fat content was strongly correlated with pretreatment liver fat content, but was weakly correlated with both starting weight and overall weight loss, suggesting that the greatest potential benefit is for patients with marked hepatic steatosisregardless of starting weight or weight loss.