Francoise Le Pimpec-Barthes1,2, Anne Hernigou3, Antonio Mazzella1, Antoine Legras4, Caroline Rivera5, Imen Bouacida1, Alex Arame1, Alain Badia1, Juan Carlos Das Neves Pereira1, Capucine Morelot-Panzini6, Thomas Similowski6, Marc Riquet1, Aurélie Vilfaillot7, Giuseppe Mangiameli1. 1. Division of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. 2. Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, USPC, Université Paris Descartes, Université Paris Diderot, F-75006 Paris, France. 3. Department of radiology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. 4. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hôpital Trousseau, Chru de Tours, Paris, France. 5. Division of Surgery, Centre Hospitalier de la Côte Basque, Bayonne, France. 6. Division of Respiratory and Intensive Medicine Unit, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. 7. Clinical Investigation Unit, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, INSERM, Clinical Investigation Unit 1418, Paris, France.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The assessment before surgical plication for unilateral hemidiaphragm (HD) eventration is not clearly defined and no precise criteria exist to really understand which patient is operated with which results depending on the technique used. The goal of this study was to evaluate the place of dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) before and after plication by developing measurement criteria. METHODS: Between 2006 and 2017, 18 patients (group1: Gp1) were operated for eventrations, 15 left-sided (Gp1L) and 3 right-sided (Gp1R). All had preoperative and postoperative evaluations including dMRI and pulmonary function tests. Five healthy volunteer subjects (group2: Gp2) had the same imaging protocol. For each HD, we measured the respiratory excursion at three fixed points (S1, S2, S3) and the height of curvature on sagittal plane. We also searched for upward paradoxical diaphragm movements. RESULTS: Before surgery, no excursion (n=13) or extremely reduced excursion (n=5) was detected on the injured HD (IHD) in Gp1. Upward paradoxical movements were identified only in Gp1L (n=6). Compared with Gp2 subjects, the healthy HD for Gp1L patients had significantly reduced excursion values at three sites S1 (P=0.038), S2 (P=0.006), and S3 (P=0.004). After plication, the decreasing height of curvature confirmed a tightening of the IHD in all patients (median value from 100 to 39.5 mm in Gp1L and 92 to 74 mm in Gp1R, P=0.0001). All upward paradoxical movements disappeared. Healthy HD excursions in Gp1L normalised their values. All those imaging improvements were correlated with postoperative improvements of dyspnoea score (P<0.0001) and vital capacity (P=0.002). CONCLUSIONS: dMRI and the standardised grid we developed not only improve the knowledge of unilateral diaphragm eventration but also permit to evaluate the quality of its surgical repair. It also demonstrates that a dysfunction of the healthy HD contralateral to eventration is possible and reversible after plication of the IHD.
BACKGROUND: The assessment before surgical plication for unilateral hemidiaphragm (HD) eventration is not clearly defined and no precise criteria exist to really understand which patient is operated with which results depending on the technique used. The goal of this study was to evaluate the place of dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) before and after plication by developing measurement criteria. METHODS: Between 2006 and 2017, 18 patients (group1: Gp1) were operated for eventrations, 15 left-sided (Gp1L) and 3 right-sided (Gp1R). All had preoperative and postoperative evaluations including dMRI and pulmonary function tests. Five healthy volunteer subjects (group2: Gp2) had the same imaging protocol. For each HD, we measured the respiratory excursion at three fixed points (S1, S2, S3) and the height of curvature on sagittal plane. We also searched for upward paradoxical diaphragm movements. RESULTS: Before surgery, no excursion (n=13) or extremely reduced excursion (n=5) was detected on the injured HD (IHD) in Gp1. Upward paradoxical movements were identified only in Gp1L (n=6). Compared with Gp2 subjects, the healthy HD for Gp1L patients had significantly reduced excursion values at three sites S1 (P=0.038), S2 (P=0.006), and S3 (P=0.004). After plication, the decreasing height of curvature confirmed a tightening of the IHD in all patients (median value from 100 to 39.5 mm in Gp1L and 92 to 74 mm in Gp1R, P=0.0001). All upward paradoxical movements disappeared. Healthy HD excursions in Gp1L normalised their values. All those imaging improvements were correlated with postoperative improvements of dyspnoea score (P<0.0001) and vital capacity (P=0.002). CONCLUSIONS: dMRI and the standardised grid we developed not only improve the knowledge of unilateral diaphragm eventration but also permit to evaluate the quality of its surgical repair. It also demonstrates that a dysfunction of the healthy HD contralateral to eventration is possible and reversible after plication of the IHD.
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Keywords:
Diaphragm eventration; diaphragm plication; dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI)
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