Abstract #4526
Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the kidneys: functional assessment in the renal artery stenosis
Caterina Gaudiano 1 , Fiorenza Busato 1 , Beniamino Corcioni 1 , Valeria Clementi 2 , Emma Fabbri 3 , Paola Berardi 3 , and Rita Golfieri 1
1
Radiology Unit, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi
Hospital, Bologna, Bologna, Italy,
2
Clinical
Science Development Group, GE Healthcare, Bologna,
Italy,
3
Medical
Physics Department, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital,
Bologna, Bologna, Italy
We studied 17 renal patients with RAS detected by using
CE-MRA and 15 control subjects with 1.5 T MRI scanner
adding DTI to the standard protocol. The comparison
between the two groups showed that medullary ADC/FA in
the study group were significantly lower than in the
control group (P=0.034 and 0.022, respectively); there
was no significant difference for the other parameters.
This suggests that DTI could be a useful tool in
evaluating renal alteration in hemodynamic RAS.
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