Christian Fischer1, Eva-Maria Preuss2, Michael Tanner2, Thomas Bruckner3, Martin Krix4, Erick Amarteifio4, Matthias Miska2, Arash Moghaddam-Alvandi2, Gerhard Schmidmaier2, Marc-André Weber4. 1. Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery, and Spinal Cord Injury, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. christian.fischer@med.uni-heidelberg.de. 2. Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery, and Spinal Cord Injury, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. 3. Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. 4. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Bone regeneration depends on perfusion of the fracture tissue, whereby hypervascularity is associated with infection, which itself causes nonunions. To date, nonunion perfusion has not been assessed with contrast-enhanced sonography. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of contrast-enhanced sonography in the analysis of nonunion tissue perfusion. METHODS: Nonunion vascularity of 31 patients before revision surgery was prospectively examined with qualitative contrast-enhanced sonography and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Time-intensity curves from 2-minute contrast-enhanced sonographic video clips were generated, and parameters such as wash-in rate, rise time, and peak enhancement were quantified. On dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI, the initial area under the enhancement curve was quantified. Preoperative radiographs, computed tomograms, the clinical nonunion score, laboratory infection features, as well as contrast-enhanced sonographic and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI perfusion were correlated with microbiological results from the nonunion tissue. RESULTS: Both qualitative and quantitative contrast-enhanced sonography showed significant differences between infected and aseptic nonunions (P = .015 and .020). The qualitative dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI analysis was not significant (P= .244), but after quantification, a strong correlation (P = .007) with microbiological results was noted. A receiver operating characteristic analysis calculated ideal cutoff values for quantitative contrast-enhanced sonography and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI so that their combination detected infected nonunions with sensitivity and specificity of 88.9% and 77.3%, respectively. Clinical, radiologic, and laboratory examinations did not correlate with microbiological results (P > .05). CONCLUSIONS: Contrast-enhanced sonography can visualize the vascularity of nonunions in real time, while quantification software allows for a semiobjective evaluation of bone perfusion. The correlations of both quantitative contrast-enhanced sonography and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI with microbiological results show their high value for differentiation of infected from aseptic nonunions.
OBJECTIVES: Bone regeneration depends on perfusion of the fracture tissue, whereby hypervascularity is associated with infection, which itself causes nonunions. To date, nonunion perfusion has not been assessed with contrast-enhanced sonography. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of contrast-enhanced sonography in the analysis of nonunion tissue perfusion. METHODS: Nonunion vascularity of 31 patients before revision surgery was prospectively examined with qualitative contrast-enhanced sonography and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Time-intensity curves from 2-minute contrast-enhanced sonographic video clips were generated, and parameters such as wash-in rate, rise time, and peak enhancement were quantified. On dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI, the initial area under the enhancement curve was quantified. Preoperative radiographs, computed tomograms, the clinical nonunion score, laboratory infection features, as well as contrast-enhanced sonographic and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI perfusion were correlated with microbiological results from the nonunion tissue. RESULTS: Both qualitative and quantitative contrast-enhanced sonography showed significant differences between infected and aseptic nonunions (P = .015 and .020). The qualitative dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI analysis was not significant (P= .244), but after quantification, a strong correlation (P = .007) with microbiological results was noted. A receiver operating characteristic analysis calculated ideal cutoff values for quantitative contrast-enhanced sonography and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI so that their combination detected infected nonunions with sensitivity and specificity of 88.9% and 77.3%, respectively. Clinical, radiologic, and laboratory examinations did not correlate with microbiological results (P > .05). CONCLUSIONS: Contrast-enhanced sonography can visualize the vascularity of nonunions in real time, while quantification software allows for a semiobjective evaluation of bone perfusion. The correlations of both quantitative contrast-enhanced sonography and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI with microbiological results show their high value for differentiation of infected from aseptic nonunions.
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