ArticleCells2021
Parametric Imaging of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) for the Evaluation of Acute Gastrointestinal Graft-Versus-Host Disease.
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- DecodingAcute GVHD: The role of serum biomarkers and imaging in diagnosis and management.Blood reviews · 2025Review
- High-Resolution Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound with SRCEUS for Assessing the Intrahepatic Microvasculature and Shunts in Patients with Hereditary Haemorrhagic Teleangiectasia (Osler's Disease).Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- NIH Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease Consensus Conference 2025 Update.Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2025Review
- Super-Resolution Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Examination Down to the Microvasculature Enables Quantitative Analysis of Liver Lesions: First Results.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Advances in the clinical diagnosis of lung cancer using contrast-enhanced ultrasound.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Enhanced Diagnostic Imaging: Arrival-Time Parametric Imaging in Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Multi-Organ Assessment.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Review
- Is Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography a New, Reliable Tool for Early-Graft-versus-Host Disease Diagnosis?Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Current Developments and Role of Intestinal Ultrasound including the Advent of AI.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Diagnostic prediction of gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease based on a clinical- CT- signs nomogram model.Insights into imaging · 2024Article
- Quantitative analysis of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography in rat models of hepatic acute graft-versus-host disease.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
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Abstract
In recent years contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) has been an emerging diagnostic modality for the detection of acute gastrointestinal (GI) graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in patients after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. However, broad clinical usage has been partially limited by its high dependence on the expertise of an experienced examiner. Thus, the aim of this study was to facilitate detection of acute GI GvHD by implementing false color-coded parametric imaging of CEUS. As such, two inexperienced examiners with basic knowledge in abdominal and vascular ultrasound analyzed parametric images obtained from patients with clinical suspicion for acute GvHD in a blinded fashion. As diagnostic gold standard, histopathological GvHD severity score on intestinal biopsies obtained from lower GI tract endoscopy was performed. The evaluation of parametric images by the two inexperienced ultrasound examiners in patients with histological confirmation of acute GI GvHD was successful in 17 out of 19 patients (89%) as opposed to analysis of combined B-mode ultrasound, strain elastography, and CEUS by an experienced examiner, which was successful in 18 out of 19 of the patients (95%). Therefore, CEUS with parametric imaging of the intestine was technically feasible and has the potential to become a valuable diagnostic tool for rapid and widely accessible detection of acute GvHD in clinical practice.
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