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Magnetic Resonance Elastography of Liver: Influence of Intravenous Gadolinium Administration on Measured Liver Stiffness.
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Abdominal Imaging . Apr2015, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p783-788. 6p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Chart, 3 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Purpose: To evaluate the effect of intravenous gadolinium-diethylenetriamine penta-acetic acid (Gd-DTPA) on estimation of liver stiffness using magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) for detection of liver fibrosis. Materials and methods: Liver MRI with MRE was performed in 210 subjects on a single 1.5 Tesla clinical MRI scanner. Liver MRE was performed before intravenous Gd-DTPA injection (NC-MRE) and 5 minutes post injection (PC-MRE) using a modified phase-contrast gradient-echo sequence (TR/TE=100/27ms, FOV=30-46cm, 4x10mm slices, gap 5mm) which automatically generated stiffness maps. Two readers' blinded to clinical details independently performed liver stiffness measurements (LSM) by drawing 2 or more regions of interest (ROI) on the stiffness maps on each of the four slices of NC-MRE and PC-MRE obtained for each patient. The mean LSM in kilopascals (kPa) for NC-MRE and PC-MRE was calculated. The correlation between NC-MRE and PC-MRE LSM was evaluated with a paired t test and Pearson's correlation analysis, and the inter-observer correlation was evaluated using intra class coefficient (ICC) analysis. A receiver operating curve analysis (ROC) was performed to compare accuracies for detection and staging of liver fibrosis in a subgroup of 72 subjects with histological confirmation of liver fibrosis. Results: There was an excellent correlation between NC-MRE and PC-MRE LSM (R=0.98, p<0.001) with no significant differences. The interobserver agreement was also excellent (ICC, 0.94-0.99). There were no significant differences in the cut-off LSM value/accuracy/sensitivity/specificity for detection of significant liver fibrosis with NC-MRE and PC-MRE (2.98kPa/98.5%/100%/88%, p<0.001 and 3.1kPa/98.2%/98%/88%, p<0.001 respectively). Conclusion: Intravenous Gd-DTPA had no significant influence on LSM with MRE and does not significantly affect the diagnostic performance of MRE for fibrosis detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09428925
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Abdominal Imaging
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 101715887
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-014-0275-x