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1Xixian New Area Rimag Medical Diagnosis Center, Xianyang, China. 2071033@sntcm.edu.cn.
Objective:
This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in patients with placenta accreta spectrum (PAS).
Materials And Methods:
The present study searched on PubMed, Embase, OVID, Cochrane, Scopus and CNKI, Chinese Bio-Medical Literature, VIP, Wanfang, Duxiu, databases for studies related to the diagnostic performance of DWI for PAS from inception to December 2022. The pooled sensitivity, the pooled specificity, positive likelihood ratio (LR+), negative likelihood ratio (LR-), and diagnosis odds ratios (DOR) were calculated by Meta-disc 1.4 and STATA 16.0.
Results:
A total of 11 studies met the criteria and were included in the meta-analysis. The effect indexes of DWI in combined PAS were as follows. The pooled sensitivity was 0.670 (0.619-0.719). The pooled specificity was 0.720 (0.661-0.773). The pooled LR+ was 2.161 (1.454-3.211). The pooled LR- was 0.413 (0.280-0.609). The pooled AUC was 0.7841, and Q* was 0.7221. The pooled diagnostic ratio DOR was 6.713 (2.981-15.118). Subgroup analysis showed that four studies used T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) + DWI to diagnose PAS, and the pooled AUC was 0.9822.
Conclusions:
The results showed that DWI had high sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis of PAS. Furthermore, T2WI+DWI has higher diagnostic efficacy than DWI alone in the diagnosis of PAS. Therefore, it is necessary to set T2WI+DWI as a routine sequence for PAS, and T2WI+DWI should be a routine method for the daily diagnosis of PAS.
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