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Semi-quantitative myocardial perfusion MRI in heart transplant recipients at rest: repeatability in healthy controls and assessment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy #MMPMID31981959
DeSa TB; Abbasi MA; Blaisdell JA; Lin K; Collins JD; Carr JC; Markl M
Clin Imaging 2020[May]; 61 (?): 62-68 PMID31981959show ga
BACKGROUND: Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy (CAV) is a major cause of chronic cardiac allograft failure. Invasive coronary angiography (ICA) and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) are the current diagnostic methods. Myocardial perfusion MRI has become a promising non-invasive method to evaluate myocardial ischemia, but has not been thoroughly validated in CAV. Our objective was to assess the repeatability of myocardial rest-perfusion MRI in healthy volunteers and its feasibility in detecting CAV in transplant patients (Tx). METHODS: Twelve healthy volunteers and twenty transplant patients beyond the first year post- transplant underwent cardiac MRI at 1.5 T at rest including first-pass perfusion imaging in short axis (base, mid, apex) after injection of gadolinium. Volunteers underwent repeated cardiac MRI on different days (interval = 15.6 +/- 2.4 days) to assess repeatability. Data analysis included semi-automatic contouring of endocardial and epicardial borders of the left ventricle (LV) and quantification of peak perfusion, time-to-peak (TTP) perfusion, and upslope of the perfusion curve. RESULTS: Between scans and re-scans in healthy volunteers, peak signal intensity, slope, and TTP demonstrated moderate agreement (ICC = 0.53, 0.48, and 0.59, respectively; all, p < .001). Peak signal intensity, slope, and TTP were moderately variable with COV values of 23%, 42%, and 35%, respectively. Peak perfusion was significantly reduced in CAV positive (n = 9 Tx patients) compared to CAV negative (n = 11 Tx patients) groups (90.7 +/- 27.0 vs 139.5 +/- 30.2, p < .001). CONCLUSION: Cardiac MRI is a moderately repeatable method for the semi-quantitative assessment of first-pass myocardial perfusion at rest. Semi-quantitative surrogate markers of LV perfusion could play a role in CAV detection.
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