Laura L Walkup1,2,3, Kasiani Myers2,4, Javier El-Bietar2,4,5, Adam Nelson2,4, Matthew M Willmering1, Michael Grimley2,4, Stella M Davies2,4, Christopher Towe2,3, Jason C Woods6,2,3. 1. Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Dept of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. 2. Dept of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. 3. Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. 4. Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. 5. Deceased 19 December 2017. 6. Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Dept of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA Jason.woods@cchmc.org.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Early detection of pulmonary morbidity following haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) remains an important challenge for intervention, primarily due to the insensitivity of spirometry to early change, and in paediatrics, patient compliance provides additional challenges. Regional lung ventilation abnormalities in paediatric HSCT patients were quantified using hyperpolarised xenon-129 (129Xe) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and compared to spirometry. METHODS: Medically stable, paediatric allogeneic HSCT patients (n=23, ages 6-16 years) underwent an outpatient MRI scan where regional ventilation was quantified with a breath-hold of hyperpolarised 129Xe gas. Ventilation deficits, regions of the lung that ventilate poorly due to obstruction, were quantified as a ventilation defect percentage (VDP) and compared to forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), FEV1/forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio, and forced expiratory flow at 25-75% of FVC (FEF25-75%) from spirometry using linear regression. RESULTS: The mean±sd 129Xe VDP was 10.5±9.4% (range 2.6-41.4%). 129Xe VDP correlated with FEV1, FEV1/FVC ratio and FEF25-75% (p≤0.02 for all comparisons). Ventilation deficits were detected in patients with normal spirometry (i.e. FEV1 >80%), supporting the sensitivity of 129Xe MRI to early obstruction reported in other pulmonary conditions. Seven (30%) patients could not perform spirometry, yet ventilation deficits were observed in five of these patients, detecting abnormalities that otherwise may have gone undetected and untreated until advanced. CONCLUSION: Lung ventilation deficits were detected using hyperpolarised 129Xe gas MRI in asymptomatic paediatric HSCT patients and in a subgroup who were unable to perform reliable spirometry. 129Xe MRI provides a reliable imaging-based assessment of pulmonary involvement in this potentially difficult to diagnose paediatric population.
BACKGROUND: Early detection of pulmonary morbidity following haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) remains an important challenge for intervention, primarily due to the insensitivity of spirometry to early change, and in paediatrics, patient compliance provides additional challenges. Regional lung ventilation abnormalities in paediatric HSCT patients were quantified using hyperpolarised xenon-129 (129Xe) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and compared to spirometry. METHODS: Medically stable, paediatric allogeneic HSCT patients (n=23, ages 6-16 years) underwent an outpatient MRI scan where regional ventilation was quantified with a breath-hold of hyperpolarised 129Xe gas. Ventilation deficits, regions of the lung that ventilate poorly due to obstruction, were quantified as a ventilation defect percentage (VDP) and compared to forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), FEV1/forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio, and forced expiratory flow at 25-75% of FVC (FEF25-75%) from spirometry using linear regression. RESULTS: The mean±sd 129Xe VDP was 10.5±9.4% (range 2.6-41.4%). 129Xe VDP correlated with FEV1, FEV1/FVC ratio and FEF25-75% (p≤0.02 for all comparisons). Ventilation deficits were detected in patients with normal spirometry (i.e. FEV1 >80%), supporting the sensitivity of 129Xe MRI to early obstruction reported in other pulmonary conditions. Seven (30%) patients could not perform spirometry, yet ventilation deficits were observed in five of these patients, detecting abnormalities that otherwise may have gone undetected and untreated until advanced. CONCLUSION:Lung ventilation deficits were detected using hyperpolarised 129Xe gas MRI in asymptomatic paediatric HSCT patients and in a subgroup who were unable to perform reliable spirometry. 129Xe MRI provides a reliable imaging-based assessment of pulmonary involvement in this potentially difficult to diagnose paediatric population.
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