In patients with Crohn disease, gadolinium-enhanced fat-suppressed spoiled GRE MR imaging better depicted the extent and severity of intestinal disease compared with single-shot fast SE imaging.
Adding DWI to routine MRI improves the sensitivity and specificity for depicting peritoneal metastases. Breath-hold DWI is now routinely used in all oncology patients referred for abdominal MRI at our institution.
Sensitivities and specificities of the six MR criteria were 90.5-100%, and 6.7-86.7%, respectively, both before and after exercise. Likelihood ratios proved statistically significant differences between the symptomatic and asymptomatic wrists (P < 0.0001-0.0002) for the prevalence of all MR criteria with the exception of fluid within the carpal joints and/or carpal tunnel. Changes of the MR appearance after exercise had a low sensitivity (4.8-71.4%) but high specificity (86.7-100%) for dynamic carpal tunnel syndrome. In conclusion, MR imaging contributes to the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome when clinical signs are confusing and electrodiagnostic studies are negative. Dynamic examinations improve specificity of MR imaging for such diagnosis.
Summary:The rest and exercise ECG, 201thallium myocardial scintigram (201TI), and radionuclide ventriculography are noninvasive procedures which can be used to evaluate myocardial damage and ischemia. To compare these procedures and to obtain baseline information, 85 male patients with coronary heart disease were evaluated prior to beginning an exercise program. Findings at rest included Q waves or bundle branch block in 54%; 47% had 201T1 redistribution defects and 33% an abnormal ejection fraction (EF). Of the 39 patients with normal ECGs, 3 1 had no 201Tl defects and only 1 of these 3 1 (3%) had an abnormal EF. Abnormal EF or *OITl redistribution defects did not occur in patients without a history of myocardial infarction. Abnormal resting EF occurred in 63% of patients with abnormal versus 7% of those with normal 201T1 redistribution scans. Exercise test results included an abnormal ST-segment response in 80%, an abnormal EF response in 6596, and a 2OlTl ischemic defect in 37%. Twenty patients had exercise-induced ST elevation, and this phenomenon was more related to ventricular aneu- rysms than to ischemia. 201Thallium imaging, radionuclide ventriculography, and the ECG provide results regarding myocardial damage that agree by more than chance, while the exercise-induced ST-segment changes did not agree with the radionuclide indications of exercise-induced ischemia.
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