The cardiothoracic ratio on post-mortem computer tomography
| Autor: | Mohamed Faouzi, F. Doenz, S Boone, Morgane Jotterand, Silke Grabherr, Patrice Mangin, Katarzyna Michaud |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Forensic pathology Adolescent Radiography Concordance Thoracic Cardiomegaly Autopsy 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Pathology and Forensic Medicine Body Mass Index 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Cardiomegaly/diagnosis Multidetector Computed Tomography 80 and over Medicine Humans 030216 legal & forensic medicine Pathologic/diagnostic imaging Forensic Pathology Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over Observer Variation business.industry ddc:614.1 Heart Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged medicine.disease Heart/diagnostic imaging Dilatation Radiological weapon Heart failure Radiography Thoracic Female Tomography business Nuclear medicine Dilatation Pathologic |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Legal Medicine, Vol. 130, No 5 (2016) pp. 1309-13 |
| ISSN: | 0937-9827 |
| Popis: | In clinical practice, the cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) was first utilized on plain chest radiography, and subsequently with computed tomography (CT) to diagnose cardiomegaly with a threshold of 0.5. Using CTR in forensic practice could help to detect cardiomegaly on post-mortem CT (PMCT) prior to the autopsy. However, an adaption of the threshold could be necessary because of post-mortem changes. Our retrospective study aimed to measure the CTR on PMCT and test the possible influence of variables. We selected 109 autopsy cases in which the heart weight was within normal limits. A forensic pathologist and a radiologist measured separately the CTR on axial and scout views on PMCT. We tested the statistical concordance between the two readers and between the axial and scout view and identified factors that could be associated with a modification of the CTR. The CTR measurements revealed an overestimation of the measurements made on scout compared to axial view. The inter-reader correlation was very high for both views. Among the different variables statistically tested, heart dilatation and body mass index (BMI) were the only two factors statistically associated with an augmentation of the CTR. The CTR can be useful in the diagnosis of cardiomegaly on PMCT. However, dilatation of the cardiac chambers caused by acute heart failure may be misinterpreted radiographically as cardiomegaly. Inter-observer reliability in our study was very high. CTR may be overestimated when measured on the scout view. Further investigations with larger cohorts, including cases with cardiac hypertrophy, are necessary to better understand the relationship between radiological CTR and the morphology of the heart. |
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