Kim DK, et al. - Experts gauged the clinical effect of liver stiffness estimated via MR elastography (MRE) in patients with cholestasis due to biliary obstruction. They assessed consecutive patients with no history of diffuse liver disease who underwent pancreaticobiliary imaging with MRE. Patients were classified as having either normal bilirubin (group A) or hyperbilirubinemia (group B). It was determined that liver stiffness was considerably higher in group B compared to group A. No differences were reported in other MRI parameters. The inference drawn was that liver stiffness increased as cholestasis increased. It could serve as a predictive factor for the sufficiency of biliary decompression after biliary drainage.