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Correlation between cardiac catheterization and contrast enhanced MRI in pulmonary artery stenosis
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance volume 12, Article number: P29 (2010)
Introduction
Peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis (PPAS) is present in 2-3% of all congenital heart defects. Catheter interventions guided by conventional X-ray angiography (XRA) have replaced cardiac surgery in the management of PPAS. However, X-ray exposure has negative health effects. Interventional XRA would benefit from non-ionizing and non-invasive planning using contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) due to its multi-planar capability, but the correlation of images in the two modalities is not always perfect, possibly due to different projections or time delays in capture.
Purpose
The goal of this study was to evaluate the correlation between XRA and CE-MRI in patients with pulmonary artery stenosis. The first hypothesis is that CE-MRI measurements of PPAS with the same angulations used in XRA (CE-MRIXRA) correlate well with XRA measurements. The second hypothesis is that there is a change in correlation if CE-MRI is performed using the conventional cross-sectional view of the vessel (CE-MRIcross) compared with XRA.
Methods
Retrospectively, cineangiograms were reviewed by two experienced XRA observers, CE-MRI images were reviewed by one experienced MRI observer in 13 patients with pulmonary artery stenosis who had undergone both procedures (Table 1). The diameter of the pulmonary artery stenosis and the vessels proximal and distal to the stenosis, and the distance from the stenosis to the bifurcation, was compared (Fig. 1) using the following imaging modalities: XRA(Fig. 2A), CE-MRI using the angulations used during XRA (CE-MRIXRA) (Fig. 2B) and CE-MRI in standard cross-sectional views projections(CE-MRIcross) (Fig. 2C). Because there was a time-delay between the procedures in most of the patients, measurements were adjusted to the body surface area (BSA).
Results
There was good correlation (T-test paired, p < 0,005) between XRA, CE-MRIXRA and CE-MRIcross (Table 1) for the diameter of the pulmonary artery stenosis and the vessels proximal and distal to the stenosis, and for the distance from the stenosis to the bifurcation (Figure 3). CE-MRIcross tend to overestimate the stenosis. The correlation was not affected if the measurements were adjusted to the BSA.
Conclusion
CE-MRI is a valuable tool for planning interventions for pulmonary artery stenosis. CE-MRIcross is not only a more accurate technique for measuring the diameter of the vessel, compared with the oblique angulations used in XRA, but it also provides two diameters of the vessel. This could be useful for future studies and standard measurements in which the stent size could be chosen according to the cross sectional area of the vessel rather than the minimal diameter acquired in only one XRA projection.
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Valverde, I., Krasemann, T., Rosenthal, E. et al. Correlation between cardiac catheterization and contrast enhanced MRI in pulmonary artery stenosis. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 12 (Suppl 1), P29 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-12-S1-P29
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