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Novel Application of Quantitative Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography/Computed Tomography to Predict Early Response to Methimazole in Graves' Disease
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- Issue Date
- 2017-05
- Publisher
- 대한영상의학회
- Citation
- Korean Journal of Radiology, Vol.18 No.3, pp.543-550
- Abstract
- Objective: Since Graves' disease (GD) is resistant to antithyroid drugs (ATDs), an accurate quantitative thyroid function measurement is required for the prediction of early responses to ATD. Quantitative parameters derived from the novel technology, single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPELT/CT), were investigated for the prediction of achievement of euthyroidism after methimazole (MMI) treatment in GD. Materials and Methods: A total of 36 GD patients (10 males, 26 females; mean age, 45.3 +/- 13.8 years) were enrolled for this study, from April 2015 to January 2016. They underwent quantitative thyroid SPECT/CT 20 minutes post-injection of Tc-99m-pertechnetate (5 mCi). Association between the time to biochemical euthyroidism after MMI treatment and %uptake, standardized uptake value (SUV), functional thyroid mass (SUVmean x thyroid volume) from the SPELT/CT, and clinical/biochemical variables, were investigated. Results: GD patients had a significantly greater %uptake (6.9 +/- 6.4%) than historical control euthyroid patients (n = 20, 0.8 +/- 0.5%, p < 0.001) from the same quantitative SPECT/CT protocol. Euthyroidism was achieved in 14 patients at 156 +/- 62 days post-MMI treatment, but 22 patients had still not achieved euthyroidism by the last follow-up time-point (208 +/- 80 days). In the univariate Cox regression analysis, the initial MMI dose (p = 0.014), %uptake (p = 0.015), and functional thyroid mass (p = 0.016) were significant predictors of euthyroidism in response to MMI treatment. However, only %uptake remained significant in a multivariate Cox regression analysis (p = 0.034). A %uptake cutoff of 5.0% dichotomized the faster responding versus the slower responding GD patients (p = 0.006). Conclusion: A novel parameter of thyroid %uptake from quantitative SPECT/CT is a predictive indicator of an early response to MMI in GD patients.
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- 1229-6929
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- English
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