At a lecture I attended last night, given by Dr Ira Jacobson, a hepatologist at Cornell, he stated that liver
biopsy is no longer standard of care. He discussed that
biopsy often under estimates how much fibrosis is there. He claims just as good is fibroscan, if available, or fibrosure, fibrospect, clinical exam, etc. I had trouble with my 2nd biopsy. I am Cirrhotic and I developed a very painful blood clot that took three weeks to resolve. Biopsies have a 30% sampling error.