ArticleEuropean radiology2015
Whole-body MRI in adult inflammatory myopathies: Do we need imaging of the trunk?
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- MRI and muscle imaging for idiopathic inflammatory myopathies.Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- How Imaging Can Assist with Diagnosis and Monitoring of Disease in Myositis.Current rheumatology reports · 2020Review
- Novel Muscle Imaging in Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases-A Focus on Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography and Quantitative MRI.Frontiers in medicine · 2020Article
- Quantitative T2 mapping accelerated by GRAPPATINI for evaluation of muscles in patients with myositis.The British journal of radiology · 2019Article
- Whole-body MRI and pathological findings in adult patients with myopathies.Skeletal radiology · 2019Review
- Diagnostic Imaging of Inflammatory Myopathies: New Concepts and a Radiological Approach.Current rheumatology reports · 2019Review
- Quantitative 3D scintigraphy shows increased muscular uptake of pyrophosphate in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy.EJNMMI research · 2017Article
- Thigh muscle MRI in immune-mediated necrotising myopathy: extensive oedema, early muscle damage and role of anti-SRP autoantibodies as a marker of severity.Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate whether imaging of the trunk could be omitted in patients with inflammatory myopathies without losing diagnostic accuracy using a restricted whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (rWB-MRI) protocol.
methodsAfter approval by the institutional review board, this study was performed in 63 patients (male/female, 13/50; median age, 52 years; range, 20-81 years) with new-onset myopathic symptoms (group 1, n = 41) or previously diagnosed inflammatory myopathy (group 2, n = 22). After performing whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) at 3.0 Tesla, myositis and fatty atrophy were evaluated in different muscles by two independent radiologists. The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated to evaluate inter-observer reliability.
resultsAcquisition time was 56:01 minutes for WB-MRI and 37:37 minutes (32.8 % shorter) for rWB-MRI. In group 1, 14 patients were diagnosed with inflammatory myopathy based on muscle biopsy. rWB-MRI and WB-MRI showed equal sensitivity (42.9 %) and specificity (100 %) for myositis, and showed equal sensitivity (71.4 %) and similar specificity (63.0 % and 48.1 %, respectively) for fatty atrophy. No myositis was found in the body trunk in any patient. Inter-observer reliability was between substantial and perfect (ICC, 0.77-1.00).
conclusionsrWB-MRI showed diagnostic accuracy similar to WB-MRI for inflammatory myopathy at markedly reduced overall acquisition time. KEY POINTS: • Whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) is a time-consuming imaging modality. • A shortened MRI protocol was evaluated for inflammatory myopathies. • The proposed protocol showed diagnostic accuracy similar to WB-MRI.
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