Persistent CT nephrograms following cardiac catheterisation and intervention: initial observations
| Autor: | Nicolas D. Prionas, Tzu Chun Lin, John M. Boone, Jeffrey Southard, Janine Carlson, Chin-Shang Li, Richard W. Katzberg, Wayne L. Monsky, Vishal Sidhar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Interventional medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Contrast media Urogenital Interventional radiology Cardiac catheterisation 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Bioinformatics 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 3. Good health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Text mining Intervention (counseling) Medicine Original Article Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology business Cardiac CT Neuroradiology |
| Zdroj: | Insights into Imaging |
| ISSN: | 1869-4101 |
| Popis: | Objectives To describe persistent nephrographic patterns detected by unenhanced renal CT at 24 h after cardiac catheterisation and intervention. Methods This prospective study was Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-compliant and institutional review board approved. Twenty-nine patients (20 men, nine women; average age 63.27 and range 41–85 years) agreed to undergo unenhanced dual-energy computed tomography (CT) limited to their kidneys at 24 h after cardiac catheterisation. CT attenuation values (Hounsfield units) were made from the cortical and medullary regions and single kidney total parenchymal iodine values (milligrams) were measured. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and a two-sided Fisher’s exact test were used in the statistics. Results Focal nephrograms were observed in at least one kidney (range, one to five regions per kidney) in 10/29 (34%) of patients and bilateral global nephrograms in 13/29 (45%) of patients. Focal nephrograms correlated with cardiac catheterisation fluoroscopic time (r = 0.48; P = 0.0087). For global nephrograms, the total iodine content of right and left kidneys correlated with fluoroscopic time (r = 0.79 and 0.76; P r = 0.77 and r = 0.74; P Conclusion Persistent focal and global nephrograms occur commonly as assessed by non-contrast CT at 24 h post cardiac catheterisation and our observations suggest they could be related to procedural factors. |
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