The use of Positron emission tomography/computerised tomography (PET/CT) is well established in the staging and assessment of treatment response of lymphoma. Recent studies have suggested that whole body diffusion-weighted imaging -magnetic resonance imaging (WB-DW-MRI) may be an alternative to PET/CT in both staging and assessment of treatment response. A systematic review was performed to assess the ability of DW-MRI in the assessment of treatment response in lymphoma. Pubmed, Medline, Web of Science and Embase databases were queried for studies examining whole body DW-MRI compared to PET/CT in adult patients using a protocol of search terms. We carried out an extensive assessment of titles, abstracts and full texts of relevant paper as well as quality assessment with the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy (QUADAS-2) tool. Eight studies were found to meet the criteria and were included in our review and analysis. Overall, the quality of studies was found to be moderate, with good inter-rater agreement (K = 0.74). Data analysis showed that lesion-based assessment in 5 studies with pooled results had a sensitivity and specificity of 94.7% and 99.3%. Assessment with Cohen's Kappa coefficient showed agreement to be excellent (K = 0.88). Three studies were included for qualitative analysis, two of which showed good equivalence between PET/CT and DW-MRI. WB-DWI-MRI can be considered a sensitive and specific method for assessing treatment response in Lymphoma without the use of ionising radiation or administration of F-18 Flurodeoxyglucose. Further studies are needed to evaluate the optimum b-values in assessing treatment response.
Background
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a rare condition, mainly affecting young women. Cases in male patients are rare, especially with recurrence.
Case summary
A 59-year-old male non-elite athlete presented as an ST-elevation myocardial infarction following a 5-km run. Urgent coronary angiogram was normal, but cardiac magnetic resonance showed a myocardial infarction. Four years later, he experienced similar chest pain with no ST-elevation on electrocardiogram and a mild troponin rise. Urgent coronary angiogram was initially thought normal but subsequent close inspection confirmed a Type 2b SCAD. Cardiac magnetic resonance showed a small additional myocardial infarction contained within an area of acute myocardial oedema.
Discussion
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is more common in young women compared to men and recurrent dissection has been rarely reported in the literature. Cohort studies have shown the rate of recurrent dissection to be 13–16%, but most of the patients in these cohorts are female. Poor data exists on the best treatment of SCAD in men, but given the presence of intramural thrombus, dual antiplatelet therapy was discontinued on the presumption that it may exacerbate an intramural bleeding process.
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