Abstract:Objective To evaluate the usefulness of ultrasonography in judging the changes of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). Methods The case report form was used to collect the clinical information of the patients with PBC, and then the relationships among clinical stage, pathological stage and ultrasonographic score were analyzed. Results A total of 215 patients with PBC were collected. The male to female ratio was 1: 9.75. The mean age was (55.57 ± 10.47) y, and the duration of disease was (3.30 ± 3.19) y. There was a correlation between ultrasonographic score and clinical stage in the patients with PBC (P < 0.05). In the 64 patients with PBC who underwent liver biopsy, there were significant differences in ultrasonographic scores among the patients different pathological grades (P < 0.05), but clinical stage was not correlated to pathological stage or ultrasound score (P > 0.05). Conclusions Ultrasonography is a noninvasive and highly-manipulative method of assessing disease progression in patients with PBC who are unfit or unwilling to undergo a liver biopsy.