The value of quantitative contrast-enhanced ultrasonography analysis in evaluating central retinal artery microcirculation in patients with diabetes mellitus : comparison with colour Doppler imaging

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AIM: To compare the efficacy of quantitative contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) analysis and colour Doppler ultrasound (CDU) in evaluating central retinal artery (CRA) microcirculation in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM).

MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this prospective study, a total of 55 patients (98 eyes) with DM were enrolled as the study group. They were compared to 46 age-matched healthy volunteers (92 eyes) who were selected as the control group. Each patient underwent CDU and subsequent CEUS examination. CDU and quantitative CEUS parameters were evaluated. The diagnostic efficiency of the diagnostic performance of CEUS and CDU was evaluated and compared, and the scale thresholds of predictive indicators for the diagnosis of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) were evaluated using receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analyses.

RESULTS: Group pairwise comparisons showed that the end diastolic velocity (EDV) and arrival time (AT) of CRA were significant predictors for PDR by CDU and by quantitative CEUS analysis, respectively (all p<0.05). The ROC curve analysis showed that the area under the curve value of AT was significantly higher than that of EDV (0.875 versus 0.634, p=0.0002). Accordingly, an AT cut-off value of 1.07 seconds resulted a sensitivity of 90.62 % and a specificity of 79.31 %.

CONCLUSION: Quantitative CEUS analysis can improve the accuracy of clinical staging of diabetic retinopathy for the patients with DM, and the AT showed the best diagnostic efficiency.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:79

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Clinical radiology - 79(2024), 4 vom: 30. März, Seite e560-e566

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Englisch

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Xu, Y [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, X Y [VerfasserIn]
Feng, H [VerfasserIn]
Yu, X P [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Y [VerfasserIn]
Rong, X [VerfasserIn]
Qi, T Y [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 11.03.2024

Date Revised 11.03.2024

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10.1016/j.crad.2024.01.011

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