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Echogram - aka Sonogram or Sonograph. They look for frankly evident problems,
like enlarged and/or irregular liver outline, masses, enlarged spleen, etc,
and also locate a good spot for the biopsy needle to hit.

Cheers - and good luck. Hope you score a big fat zero :-)

/greyhackles

So have you been doing anything to maximize liver health, like diet changes
or anything?  Maybe supplements?

If your VL is high, it might be that the doc is thinking treatment anyway,
and the sonogram and biopsy are more for indexing your case at a point in
time, if you know what I am trying to say.  I know that the in my case, it
seemed as though in order to get on the medicare=equivalent Tx wagon, the
biopsy was a prerequisite.  Maybe that is not the way things work in Spain.
?

As for the failure of FEMA ...  it's the same as what happened with the
upkeep at Walter Reed hospital... they re-organized the management of the
place, spun out contracts to instant companies who in turn mismanaged the
whole thing and nobody checked on anyone else to see that things were all
tight and not just a whitewash in a hive of activity.  It is a typical
result of greed infesting the community like galloping, sucking chest
wound... the new economics of the new world order.

egggh

Cactus jammies .................