Abstract #0185

Assessing the Prognosis of Acute Deep Vein Thrombosis Using Magnetic Resonance Black-blood Thrombus Imaging

Guoxi Xie¹, Hanwei Chen², Chen Huang³, Xueping He², Yueyuan Xie⁴, Xiaoyong Zhang⁵, Tianjing Zhang⁶, Yi Sun⁵, Debiao Li⁷, and Zhaoyang Fan⁸

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, ²Department of Radiology, Guangzhou Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, China, ³Department of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Guangzhou Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, China, ⁴Department of Anesthesiology, Mindong Hospital, Ningde, China, ⁵MR Collaborations, Siemens Healthcare Ltd, Shenzhen, China, ⁶Philips Healthcare, Guangzhou, China, ⁷Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States, ⁸Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Patients with acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) can be characterized as iso- or hyper-intense thrombus signals using a T1-weighted black-blood magnetic resonance imaging (BTI) technique. Patients with hyper-intense thrombus signals demonstrated a significant higher incidence of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) than those with iso-intense thrombus signals, regardless of the patient’s age, gender, the severity of DVT, and the treatment strategy of catheter-directed thrombolysis or conventional anticoagulant therapy. The results suggest that the thrombus signal characteristics obtained on BTI imaging are valuable for assessing the prognosis of acute DVT and may aid in guiding the clinical treatment plan.

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