Adrian T Huber1,2,3, Jérôme Lamy1,4, Marine Bravetti1,2, Khaoula Bouazizi1,4, Tania Bacoyannis1, Charles Roux1,2, Alain De Cesare1, Aude Rigolet5, Olivier Benveniste5,6, Yves Allenbach5,6, Mathieux Kerneis7, Philippe Cluzel1,2,4, Alban Redheuil1,2,4, Nadjia Kachenoura8,9. 1. Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France. 2. Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Institute of Cardiology, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. 3. Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. 4. Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France. 5. Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. 6. Centre de Recherche en Myologie, INSERM UMR974, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. 7. Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France. 8. Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France. nadjia.kachenoura@inserm.fr. 9. Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Paris, France. nadjia.kachenoura@inserm.fr.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To compare the performance of magnetic resonance (MR) relaxometry parameters to discriminate myocardial and skeletal muscle inflammation in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) patients from healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS: For this retrospective case-control study, 20 consecutive IIM patients (54 ± 18 years, 11 females) with cardiac involvement (troponin level > 50 ng/l) and 20 healthy controls (47 ± 12 years, 9 females) were included. All patients without cardiac MR imaging < 2 weeks prior to the laboratory testings were excluded. T1/T2 relaxation times, as well as T1-derived extracellular volume (ECV), relative tissue T1 shortening ΔT1 = (native T1tissue-post contrast T1tissue)/native T1tissue), and enhancement fraction EHF = (native T1tissue-post contrast T1tissue)/(native T1blood-post contrast T1blood), were compared using Mann-Whitney U test and ROC analysis. RESULTS: All measured MR relaxometry parameters significantly discriminated IIM patients and healthy controls, except T2 in skeletal muscles and ECV in the myocardium. In skeletal muscles, post contrast T1 and T1-derived parameters showed the best performance to discriminate IIM patients from healthy controls (AUC = 0.98 for post contrast T1 and AUC 0.94-0.97 for T1-derived parameters). Inversely, in the myocardium, native T1 and T2 showed better diagnostic performance (AUC = 0.89) than post contrast T1 (AUC = 0.76), ECV (AUC = 0.58), ΔT1 (AUC = 0.80) and EHF (0.82). CONCLUSIONS: MR relaxometry parameters applied to the myocardium and skeletal muscles might be useful to separate IIM patients from healthy controls. However, different tissue composition and vascularization should be taken into account for their interpretation. ΔT1 and EHF may be simple alternatives to ECV in highly vascularized tissues such as the myocardium. KEY POINTS: • MR relaxometry parameters applied to the myocardium and skeletal muscles are highly useful to separate IIM patients from healthy controls. • Different tissue composition and vascularization should be taken into account for T1 and T2 mapping parameter interpretation. • ΔT1 and EHF may be simple alternatives to ECV in highly vascularized tissues such as the myocardium.
OBJECTIVES: To compare the performance of magnetic resonance (MR) relaxometry parameters to discriminate myocardial and skeletal muscle inflammation in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) patients from healthy controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS: For this retrospective case-control study, 20 consecutive IIM patients (54 ± 18 years, 11 females) with cardiac involvement (troponin level > 50 ng/l) and 20 healthy controls (47 ± 12 years, 9 females) were included. All patients without cardiac MR imaging < 2 weeks prior to the laboratory testings were excluded. T1/T2 relaxation times, as well as T1-derived extracellular volume (ECV), relative tissue T1 shortening ΔT1 = (native T1tissue-post contrast T1tissue)/native T1tissue), and enhancement fraction EHF = (native T1tissue-post contrast T1tissue)/(native T1blood-post contrast T1blood), were compared using Mann-Whitney U test and ROC analysis. RESULTS: All measured MR relaxometry parameters significantly discriminated IIM patients and healthy controls, except T2 in skeletal muscles and ECV in the myocardium. In skeletal muscles, post contrast T1 and T1-derived parameters showed the best performance to discriminate IIM patients from healthy controls (AUC = 0.98 for post contrast T1 and AUC 0.94-0.97 for T1-derived parameters). Inversely, in the myocardium, native T1 and T2 showed better diagnostic performance (AUC = 0.89) than post contrast T1 (AUC = 0.76), ECV (AUC = 0.58), ΔT1 (AUC = 0.80) and EHF (0.82). CONCLUSIONS: MR relaxometry parameters applied to the myocardium and skeletal muscles might be useful to separate IIM patients from healthy controls. However, different tissue composition and vascularization should be taken into account for their interpretation. ΔT1 and EHF may be simple alternatives to ECV in highly vascularized tissues such as the myocardium. KEY POINTS: • MR relaxometry parameters applied to the myocardium and skeletal muscles are highly useful to separate IIM patients from healthy controls. • Different tissue composition and vascularization should be taken into account for T1 and T2 mapping parameter interpretation. • ΔT1 and EHF may be simple alternatives to ECV in highly vascularized tissues such as the myocardium.
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