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Sunyoung Lee1, Kyoung Won Kim2, Heon-Ju Kwon3
1Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiological Science, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Background:
Contrast-enhanced T1-weighted magnetic resonance cholangiography (CE-T1-MRC) after gadoxetate disodium administration can be used for preoperative evaluation of the bile ducts in live liver donors. This study aimed to determine whether CE-T1-MRC with 3-hour delayed imaging improves bile duct visualization both qualitatively and quantitatively compared with 20-minute delayed imaging in potential living liver donors.
Methods:
We retrospectively identified 33 potential living liver donors (mean age, 30.1 years; 18 men and 15 women) who underwent preoperative CE-T1-MRC with both 20-minute delayed and 3-hour delayed imaging in a single session. The radiologist scored biliary visualization for right and left hepatic ducts (RHD and LHD), their secondary confluences and segmental bile ducts, common hepatic duct (CHD), and cystic duct (CD), and measured relative contrast ratio (rC) and relative signal intensity (rS) for RHD, LHD, and CHD. The data were analyzed using Wilcoxon's signed-rank test and paired t-test.
Results:
In qualitative analysis, duct visualization scores for RHD and LHD, their secondary confluences and segmental bile ducts, CHD, and CD were significantly higher on CE-T1-MRC with 3-hour delayed imaging than with 20-minute delayed imaging (all, P ≤ .046). In quantitative analysis, both rC and rS of RHD, LHD, and CHD were significantly higher on CE-T1-MRC with 3-hour delayed imaging than with 20-minute delayed imaging (all, P < .001).
Conclusions:
CE-T1-MRC with 3-hour delay imaging improves bile duct visualization both qualitatively and quantitatively in potential living liver donors.
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