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3rd Edition of International Precision Medicine Conference

March 17-19, 2025

March 17 -19, 2025 | Rome, Italy
2021 Speakers

Alvard Ter Karapetyan

Alvard Ter Karapetyan, Speaker at Personalized Medicine Congress
Vardanants Center of Innovative Medicine, Armenia
Title : Towards quantitative perfusion MRI of the lung in COPD: The problem of short-term repeatability

Abstract:

4D perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with intravenous injection of contrast agent allows for a radiation-free assessment of regional lung function. It is therefore a valu-able method to monitor response to treatment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This study was designed to evaluate its potential for monitoring short-term response to hyperoxia in COPD patients.

Materials and methods
19 prospectively enrolled COPD patients (median age 66y) underwent paired dynamic contrast-enhanced 4D perfusion MRI within 35min, first breathing 100% oxygen (injection 1,O2) and then room air (injection 2, RA), which was repeated on two consecutive days (day 1and 2). Post-processing software was employed to calculate mean transit time (MTT), pulmonary blood volume (PBV) and pulmonary blood flow (PBF), based on the indicator dilution theory, for the automatically segmented whole lung and 12 regions of equal volume.

Results

Comparing O2 with RA conditions, PBF and PBV were found to be significantly lower at O2, consistently on both days (p<10–8). Comparing day 2 to day 1, MTT was shorter by 0.59±0.63 s (p<10–8), PBF was higher by 22±80 ml/min/100ml (p<3,10–4), and PBV tended to be lower by 0.2±7.2 ml/100ml (p = 0.159) at both, RA and O2, conditions.

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