Abstract #5180

Quantitative MRI in patients with Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome and Asymptomatic Volunteers: an Exploratory Study on T2* and T1 mapping.

Joseph Rudy Dadour¹, Guillaume Gilbert², Bernard Leduc³, Roger Vadeboncoeur⁴, Jean Rémillard⁵, and Nathalie J Bureau¹

¹Radiology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Radiology, Radio-Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Readaptation Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁴Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, ⁵Centre de Physiatrie Dorchester, Montreal, QC, Canada

Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome is a debilitating and highly prevalent disorder in women. Quantitative short-TE MRI sequences might overcome conventional MRI limitations in characterizing and staging gluteus tendinopathy. Ten patients and 10 asymptomatic volunteers were evaluated with hip MRI. Manual segmentations of the hip tendons were done to map T1 and T2* relaxation times. Statistically significant results were found for the T1 values of the lateral gluteus medius tendon, and for the T2* values of both parts of the gluteus medius, and the gluteus minimus tendons, indicating very promising results.

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