Preoperative evaluation of the hepatic vascular anatomy in living liver donors: Comparison of CT angiography and MR angiography

✍ Scribed by Min Woo Lee; Jeong Min Lee; Jae Young Lee; Se Hyung Kim; Eun-Ah Park; Joon Koo Han; Young Jun Kim; Kyung-Sook Shin; Kyung-Suk Suh; Byung Ihn Choi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 266 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1053-1807
• DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20726

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Purpose

To compare the diagnostic performance of CT angiography (CTA) and MR angiography (MRA) for preoperative hepatic vascular evaluation in living liver donors.

Materials and Methods

Twenty‐eight living donor candidates underwent preoperative CTA and MRA. Two blinded radiologists evaluated the anatomic types of the hepatic artery (HA) and portal vein (PV), and the number of aberrant hepatic veins (HVs) on both CTA and MRA, independently. Four grades of confidence levels were used to indicate the clarity of depiction of the HA and PV. Surgical findings were used as a standard of reference.

Results

For determining the anatomic types of the HA and PV, and the number of aberrant HVs, CTA and MRA did not significantly differ in terms of accuracy ([89%, 96%, and 68% on CTA] vs. [86%, 93%, and 68% on MRA] for reader 1, P > 0.05; and [93%, 100%, and 86% on CTA] vs. [89%, 93%, and 79% on MRA] for reader 2, P > 0.05). Confidence for the depiction of major branches of HA and PV did not differ between CTA and MRA, except for a better depiction of the left HA (LHA) on CTA (P < 0.05)

Conclusion

In living donor candidates, both CTA and MRA can provide a complete evaluation of the hepatic vascular anatomy. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2006. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.