Luiz Siqueira1, Michael Chew1,
Peter F. Hahn1, Giles Boland1, Lawrence T. White2,
Deborah Gervais1, Peter R. Mueller1, Alexander R.
Guimaraes2,3
1Radiology, Massachusetts General
Hospital/Division of Abdominal Imaging, Boston, MA, United States; 2Radiology,
Massachusetts General Hospital/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,
Charlestown, MA, United States; 3Radiology, Division of Abdominal
Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Boston, MA, United States
83
patients who underwent both liver MRI and liver biopsy for fibrosis staging
within a 6 month period, between January 2004 and December 2008 were enrolled
in this IRB approved retrospective study.
All biopsies were staged histologically (Ishak classification system
(0-6)) and grouped into mild (stage (1-2) n=20), moderate (stage (3-4),
n=17), severe (stage (5-6), n=46). T2
relaxation time of liver parenchyma in patients was calculated by 2 point fit
(mild 66.7 +/- 1.9msec; moderate 71.6 +/- 1.7msec; severe 72.4 +/- 1.4msec) with low standard error
(~1.9msec), demonstrating statistically significant difference between
degrees of mild vs. severe fibrosis (p<0.05).
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