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Pediatric Imaging |
1 From the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (M.J.S., S.B., F.R.G., C.H.) and Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary Medicine (S.S.), Washington University School of Medicine, 510 S Kingshighway Blvd, St Louis, MO 63110. Received October 20, 2000; revision requested December 12; revision received February 16, 2001; accepted March 16. Address correspondence to M.J.S. (e-mail: siegelm@mir.wustl.edu).
PURPOSE: To assess the usefulness of thin-section expiratory computed tomography (CT), as compared with that of thin-section inspiratory CT, in detecting airway obstruction and air trapping in pediatric lung transplant recipients with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS).
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thin-section CT scans were obtained at full inspiration and end expiration in 21 pediatric lung transplant recipients with proved BOS and in 41 transplant recipients with normal airways. True diagnosis was based on pulmonary function test results. Inspiration CT scans were scored for extent of decreased attenuation of the lung parenchyma; expiration CT scans were scored for extent of air trapping.
RESULTS: The sensitivity of inspiratory CT for enabling diagnosis of BOS was 71%; the specificity, 78%; the positive predictive value, 62%; and the negative predictive value, 84%. The sensitivity of expiratory CT for enabling diagnosis of BOS was 100%; the specificity, 71%; the positive predictive value, 64%; and the negative predictive value, 100%. Expiratory CT scores correlated more strongly (
= 0.75, P < .01) with pulmonary function test–based scores than did inspiratory CT scores ( = 0.48, P < .01). Nominal logistic regression analysis revealed that expiratory CT was a more powerful predictor of true diagnosis (P < .01) than was inspiratory CT (P = .10).
CONCLUSION: Expiratory CT is sensitive for depicting BOS-related airway abnormalities and may be more useful than inspiratory CT for diagnosis of small airway obstruction.
Index terms: Bronchiolitis obliterans, 60.219 • Lung, abnormalities, 60.219, 60.26, 60.744 • Lung, air trapping, 60.219, 60.26 • Lung, CT, 60.1211, 60.12118 • Lung, transplantation, 60.458
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