Health technology assessment of magnetic resonance imaging of the spine and bone marrow

Verstraete, Koenraad; Huysse, Wouter

doi:10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.11.013

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“…MRI has advantages over CT because it can better distinguish bone marrow, vertebra and intervertebral disc, is better able to evaluate the neural structures (including the spinal cord, epidural space and peripheral soft tissue) and uses no radiation. Good sensitivity and specificity data have been reported for the use of MRI in spondylodiscitis [15]. Therefore, MRI can currently be considered the best conventional imaging method for diagnosis.…”

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PET/MRI in infectious and inflammatory diseases: will it be a useful improvement?

Glaudemans

Quintero

Signore

2012

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging

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Section: Pet/mri In Infectious and Inflammatory Diseasesmentioning

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PET/MRI in infectious and inflammatory diseases: will it be a useful improvement?

Glaudemans

Quintero

Signore

2012

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging

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Espondilodiscitis lumbar: clínica y factores de riesgo en el diagnóstico precoz

Capa-Grasa¹,

Flores-Torres²,

Gozalo-Arribas³

2010

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Evaluating and monitoring bone marrow hypoplasia in adults with aplastic anemia via high-resolution iliac magnetic resonance imaging in the current era

Yang¹,

Bai²,

Guo³

et al. 2019

Medicine

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The diagnosis and monitoring of aplastic anemia (AA) rely heavily on a complete blood count (CBC), and multiple-site bone marrow (BM) aspirations and biopsies. However, these approaches have certain limitations. We aimed to assess high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a complementary approach for evaluating BM hypoplasia and monitoring treatment response in adults with AA in the current era. Twelve newly diagnosed AA patients and 12 sex- and age-matched healthy controls were enrolled in this study from January 2017 to August 2018. A bilateral iliac 3.0T MRI was used to collect data for each subject, and the signal intensity on the T1-weighted images (T1WIs) were expressed as a contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). The MRI, CBC, and BM biopsy data were analyzed and compared. A qualitative analysis identified a significant difference in MRI signal characteristics between the AA group and the healthy control group. The clinical classifications of very severe aplastic anemia (VSAA) and severe aplastic anemia (SAA) corresponded to pattern I and pattern II on the MR images, respectively. However, this imaging classification did not correlate with the biopsy-based BM cellularity measure. A quantitative analysis showed a significantly higher signal intensity in AA patients than in controls. A within-group comparison revealed that more severe types of AA, based on the clinical classification, corresponded to stronger signals. Notably, MRI could detect treatment response earlier than CBC, regardless of whether there were improvements in hematopoiesis. MRI can be used to predict the therapeutic effects in patients with AA and is an important complementary tool for evaluating and monitoring BM hypoplasia.

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Health technology assessment of magnetic resonance imaging of the spine and bone marrow

Cited by 3 publications

References 89 publications

PET/MRI in infectious and inflammatory diseases: will it be a useful improvement?

PET/MRI in infectious and inflammatory diseases: will it be a useful improvement?

Espondilodiscitis lumbar: clínica y factores de riesgo en el diagnóstico precoz

Evaluating and monitoring bone marrow hypoplasia in adults with aplastic anemia via high-resolution iliac magnetic resonance imaging in the current era

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