SuperSonic Imagine Announces Clinical Data From Its Retrospective Multicenter Trial Evaluating ShearWave(TM) Elastography for the Non-Invasive Staging of Patients With Chronic Liver Disease - Seite 3

SWE™ is an easy-to-use, non-invasive exam that provides real time, color coded maps with quantitative measurements of liver stiffness that help assess chronic liver disease. As a general rule, liver stiffness increases with the severity of liver fibrosis, making it an important parameter to help physicians determine disease stage. Liver biopsy has traditionally been considered the gold standard for staging liver fibrosis but this invasive method has major drawbacks, including significant incidence of morbidity, procedure and hospitalization costs, and clinical shortcomings as fibrosis is underestimated in 10-30% of cases^2-3.

The accuracy of SWE™ combined with its procedural convenience has the potential to significantly reduce the number of liver biopsies used for the staging of fibrosis and assessment of cirrhosis. Such a paradigm shift will not only save time and hospital costs but also reduce morbidity and improve patients' quality of life. This technique may also play a significant role in monitoring antiviral therapies used to address health concerns such as hepatitis C.

Jacques Souquet, Ph.D., SuperSonic Imagine's Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategic and Innovation Officer commented "this meta-analysis is a seminal body of work for the company because it corroborates with all previous single center trials to reconfirm the excellent diagnostic performance of SuperSonic Imagine's ShearWave Elastography (SWE™) for the non-invasive staging of liver disease".

¹ Department of Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
² Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology,
³ Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Haut-Lévèque, Bordeaux, France

SuperSonic Imagine

Founded in 2005 and based in Aix-en-Provence (France), SuperSonic Imagine is a company specializing in medical imaging. The company designs, develops and markets a revolutionary ultrasound system, Aixplorer®, with an UltraFast™ platform that can acquire images 200 times faster than conventional ultrasound systems. Aixplorer is the only system that can image two types of waves: ultrasound waves ensure excellent image quality and shear waves, which allow physicians to visualize and analyze the stiffness of tissue in a real-time, reliable, reproducible and non-invasive manner. This innovation, ShearWave™Elastography, significantly improves the detection and characterization of numerous pathologies in several applications including breast, thyroid, liver and prostate. SuperSonic Imagine has been granted regulatory clearances for the commercialization of Aixplorer in the main global markets. Over the past years, SuperSonic Imagine enjoyed the backing of several prestigious investors, among which Auriga Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Bpifrance, Omnes Capital and NBGI.