The Value of Follow-Up Liver Stiffness Changes Measured by Virtual Touch Quantification Elastography for Predicting Recurrence of Gastroesophageal Varices after Endoscopic Injection Sclerotherapy on Cirrhotic Patients

Table 2

LS changes over time in the recurrence and nonrecurrence groups.

Outcome	The day of hospitalization	The day of discharge	2 months after discharge	4 months after discharge	6 months after discharge	Mauchly’s test of sphericity	time	timegroups	within subjects
Nonrecurrence						<0.01	<0.01	0.04	0.57
Recurrence

LS: liver stiffness. time indicates differences in LS variables at each time point, timegroups (Greenhouse–Geisser correction performed) measures the interaction effect between timeline and groups, and within subjects evaluates whether the two groups were significantly different from each other. value < 0.05.