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Prediction of the histological grades of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis by quantitative analysis of gadoxetic acid contrast-enhanced MRI |
TONG Hongfei, WANG Zhaohong, CHEN Hui, ZHOU Bin, NI Zhonglin |
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital & Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325027, China |
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TONG Hongfei,WANG Zhaohong,CHEN Hui, et al. Prediction of the histological grades of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis by quantitative analysis of gadoxetic acid contrast-enhanced MRI[J]. JOURNAL OF WEZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, 2020, 50(9): 717-722.
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Abstract Objective: To evaluate and predict histological grades of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis by Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI. Methods: Totally 55 patients were recruited in this study, of which 10 cases without liver cirrhosis were divided as the control group, 10 cases with liver fibrosis as the liver fibrosis group, 35 cases with liver cirrhosis as the liver cirrhosis group. Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI was performed in all 55 patients before surgery. The signal absolute enhancement value (AEV) and contrast enhancement ratio (CER) was analyzed quantitatively in the unenhancement and hepatobiliary phase of background liver. Then we analyzed the correlation among the signal AEV, the CER and histologic grade of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. Results: The analysis of the correlation between the signal AEV and the histological grades of different diseased hepatic tissue (r=-0.526, P<0.001) and the correlation between CER and the histological grades of different diseased hepatic tissue (r=-0.741, P<0.001). Between the two analyzed methods of signal intensity, we confirmed the more significant negative correlation between signal CER and the histological grades of different diseased hepatic tissue. The cut-off values calculated by receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC curve) were 0.76 between normal hepatic
tissue and liver fibrosis, 0.46 between liver fibrosis and liver cirrhosis, respectively. Conclusion: The more significant negative correlations between CER and the histological grades of different diseased hepatic tissue were confirmed by quantitative analysis of gadoxetic-acid contrast-enhanced MRI and the analysis of CER can evaluate and predict the histological grades of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis.
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Received: 26 September 2019
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