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EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
Volume 52, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00821-2018
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- National Institute for Health Research [NIHR-RP-R3-12-027, ICA-CDRF-2015-01-027]
- Health Education England
- Medical Research Council [MR/M008894/1]
- Crossref Funder Registry
- MRC [MR/M008894/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Hyperpolarised helium-3 (He-3) ventilation magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and multiple-breath washout (MBW) are sensitive methods for detecting lung disease in cystic fibrosis (CF). We aimed to explore their relationship across a broad range of CF disease severity and patient age, as well as assess the effect of inhaled lung volume on ventilation distribution. 32 children and adults with CF underwent MBW and He-3-MRI at a lung volume of end-inspiratory tidal volume (EIVT). In addition, 28 patients performed He-3-MRI at total lung capacity. He-3-MRI scans were quantitatively analysed for ventilation defect percentage (VDP), ventilation heterogeneity index (VHI) and the number and size of individual contiguous ventilation defects. From MBW, the lung clearance index, convection-dependent ventilation heterogeneity (Scond) and convection-diffusion-dependent ventilation heterogeneity (Sacin) were calculated. VDP and VHI at EIVT strongly correlated with lung clearance index (r=0.89 and r=0.88, respectively), Sacin (r=0.84 and r=0.82, respectively) and forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) (r=-0.79 and r=-0.78, respectively). Two distinct He-3-MRI patterns were highlighted: patients with abnormal FEV1 had significantly (p<0.001) larger, but fewer, contiguous defects than those with normal FEV1, who tended to have numerous small volume defects. These two MRI patterns were delineated by a VDP of similar to 10%. At total lung capacity, when compared to EIVT, VDP and VHI reduced in all subjects (p<0.001), demonstrating improved ventilation distribution and regions of volume-reversible and nonreversible ventilation abnormalities.
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