Abstract
To explore the potential role of MRI in detecting cardiac allograft rejection in transplant recipients using gadolinium tetraazacyclododecane tetraacetic acid (Gd-DOTA) for contrast enhancement, we examined 7 normal healthy volunteers and 39 patients separated into three groups according to histological findings. Quantitative myocardial enhancement (ME), expressed as the ratio of maximum signal intensity after intravenous Gd-DOTA injection to signal intensity before intravenous injection of Gd-DOTA, was significantly lower for patients without histological rejection (n = 14; regional ME = 83 +/- 41%; mean ME = 53 +/- 24%) when compared with patients with grade 1 histological rejection (n = 18; regional ME = 122 +/- 20%, p = 0.02; mean ME = 70 +/- 14%, p < 0.05) and with patients with grade 2 or 3 rejection (n = 7; regional ME = 135 +/- 44%, p = 0.02; mean ME = 81 +/- 27%, p < 0.05). Myocardial enhancement was not significantly different in patients with grade 1 histological rejection compared with patients with grade 2 or 3 rejection. Because predominant focal areas of ME were observed in all patients, regional ME seemed a better measurement than mean ME to distinguish focal histological changes when the rejection process is be...Continue Reading
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