Zusammenfassung
Die MRT wird routinemäßig bei Patienten mit einer Erkrankung der Leber zum Ausschluss oder zur Verlaufskontrolle einer strukturellen Parenchymveränderung eingesetzt. Durch spezielle MRT-Sequenzen und -Techniken lassen sich Eigenschaften der Leber bezüglich Funktion, Fibrosestadium, Fett- und Eisengehalt quantifizieren. Die MRT hilft sowohl bei der ersten Diagnostik eines Krankheitsbildes als auch bei der Überprüfung des Therapieansprechens.
Abstract
In clinical routine, invasive liver biopsy is considered to be the reference standard for clarifying the aetiology of an unclear liver disease, quantifying hepatic inflammation, steatosis hepatis or liver iron content and for graduation of liver fibrosis stage. However, this invasive procedure has a number of disadvantages and limitations. Liver fibrosis is the common final stage of many chronic liver diseases and may lead to liver cirrhosis. In principle, fibrotic changes of liver parenchyma are reversible, thus non-invasive early detection and characterization methods are of high clinical relevance.
Non-invasive diagnostic imaging methods – in particular multiparametric quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) – will be established in clinical practice for determining fat and iron content and estimation of liver function. The liver iron concentration can be determined quantitatively using signal intensity ratio (SIR)- method and the relaxometry method by determining R2 and R2* values. Using proton density fat fraction (PDFF) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy the fat content of the liver can be determined non-invasively. Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI offers the possibility to estimate global as well as segmental liver function using T1 relaxometry. The possibility to make statements about composition of the liver, liver anatomy, lesion characteristics and the function of entire liver or various liver segments in the sense of a “one-stop-shop” with a single MRI examination gains in importance in terms of health economics.
Schlüsselwörter
multiparametrische quantitative MRT - Lebererkrankung
Key words
multiparametric quantitative MRI - liver disease