Diagnosis of Pelvic Endometriosis in MRI
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Magnetic resonance imaging.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Endometriosis. Basic parameters: 16 years — 55 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
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Official title
Diagnosis of Pelvic Endometriosis: a Preliminary Study on the Added Value of R2*MFGRE Sequence in MRI
Overview
Purpose： Evaluate the feasibility of R2 star multiple fast gradient recalled echo (R2\*MFGRE) imaging in the diagnosis of pelvic endometriosis. One hundred patients with suspected endometriosis underwent routine pelvic MRI and R2\*MFGRE imaging. Clinical diagnosis was pathologically confirmed one month after MRI examination. Three radiologists who were blinded to the pathological results evaluated the numbers of ovarian endometriomas (OMAs) and deep in-filtrating endometriosis (DIE) lesions using routine MRI and its combination with R2\*MFGRE. MRI changes of lesion size before and after estrogen therapy.
Detailed description
This prospective study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the local hos-pital, and informed consent was obtained from all the patients in this study (3701027061515). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of our institutional and national re-search committee and with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Study population One hundred and Sixty-five patients with suspected endometriosis underwent pelvic MRI with R2\*MFGRE imaging from Decemberr 2017 to December 2023. Of those, One hundred and forty patients were submitted to surgical (either laparotomy or laparoscopy) treatment for endometriosis. The diagnosis was confirmed by pathology within one month after the initial MR exam. Additionally, 20 out of 160 patients were excluded from the study. Of these, 11 were due to non-surgical treatment, and the other 8 were due to prominent susceptibility artifacts caused by colonic overdistention, limiting the vis-ibility of the pelvis. Finally, One hundred patients were included in the study.
All 100 patients were aged ranging from 24 to 54 years, with an average age of 37.8 years. Their clinical symptoms included dysmenorrhea, bulging in the lower abdomen or anus, heavy menstrual bleeding, dyspareunia, and infertility. Some of these patients had multiple symptoms
Interventions
- Diagnostic test Magnetic resonance imaging
Patients were treated with abarelix prior to the examination
Primary outcome measures
- Measuring the number of lesions [Time frame: immediately after the surgery]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- patients who proven endometriosis by pathology Patients who wish to be treated
Exclusion criteria
- Received any treatment (radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery or chemoradiotherapy) before undergoing imaging studies poor-quality MR images with any severe motion or artifacts
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Diagnostic
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06157528 · 1110000