Dousset V, Armand J P, Lacoste D, Mièze S, Letenneur L, Dartigues J F, Caill J M
Service de Neuroradiologie, Hopital Pellegrin-Tripode, CHU de Bordeaux, France.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1997 May;18(5):895-901.
To ascertain whether the use of magnetization transfer (MT) in MR imaging can characterize tissue destruction in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients with presumed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) or HIV encephalitis.
Brain MR studies that included MT were obtained in three groups: 11 healthy control subjects, 10 HIV-positive patients with clinical and radiologic findings of PML, and 13 HIV-positive patients with HIV encephalitis. MT ratios (MTRs) were calculated in PML and HIV encephalitis lesions and in normal-appearing white matter in the patients and control subjects.
PML lesions revealed a dramatic decrease in MTR (22% +/- 2.3). HIV encephalitis lesions had statistically significantly higher MTR values (40% +/- 3.8) than PML lesions. The MTR of normal-appearing white matter was significantly higher in the control subjects (47% +/- 2.3) than in the PML group (46% +/- 3.3) or the HIV encephalitis group (44% +/- 2.6).
MTR determinations suggest the possibility of distinguishing PML from HIV encephalitis and of indicating whether HIV encephalitis is involved in white matter that appears normal on conventional MR images.
确定磁共振成像(MR)中磁化传递(MT)的应用是否能够对疑似进行性多灶性白质脑病(PML)或HIV脑炎的人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)阳性患者的组织破坏进行特征描述。
对三组对象进行了包含MT的脑部MR研究:11名健康对照者、10名有PML临床及影像学表现的HIV阳性患者以及13名患有HIV脑炎的HIV阳性患者。计算了患者及对照者PML和HIV脑炎病灶以及正常白质区域的MT比率(MTR)。
PML病灶的MTR显著降低(22%±2.3)。HIV脑炎病灶的MTR值(40%±3.8)在统计学上显著高于PML病灶。对照者正常白质区域的MTR(47%±2.3)显著高于PML组(46%±3.3)或HIV脑炎组(44%±2.6)。
MTR测定提示有可能区分PML与HIV脑炎,并提示HIV脑炎是否累及常规MR图像上看似正常的白质。