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Published online before print May 23, 2006, 10.1148/radiol.2401050780
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(Radiology 2006;240:136-144.)
© RSNA, 2006

Genitourinary Imaging

Evaluation of Living Renal Donors: Accuracy of Three-dimensional 16-Section CT1

Neeraj Rastogi, MD, Dushyant V. Sahani, MD, Michael A. Blake, MD, Dicken C. Ko, MD and Peter R. Mueller, MD

1 From the Departments of Radiology (N.R., D.V.S., M.A.B., P.R.M.) and Transplant Surgery (D.C.K.), Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, White 270, Boston, MA 02114. Received May 6, 2005; revision requested July 5; revision received August 14; accepted September 12; final version accepted October 4. Address correspondence to D.V.S. (e-mail: dsahani{at}partners.org).

Purpose: To retrospectively assess the sensitivity and specificity of three-dimensional (3D) 16-section computed tomography (CT) in the evaluation of vessels, pelvicalyceal system, and ureters in living renal donors, with surgical findings as the reference standard.

Materials and Methods: This was a HIPAA-compliant study. Institutional review board approval was obtained for the review of subjects' medical records and data analysis, with waiver of informed consent. Forty-six renal donors (18 men, 28 women; mean age, 42 years) were examined with 16-section CT. Two blinded reviewers independently studied renal vascular and urographic anatomy of each donor CT scans by fist using 3D images alone, then transverse images alone, and finally transverse and 3D data set. Image quality, degree of diagnostic confidence, and time used for review were recorded. Sensitivity and specificity were calculated.

Results: For 3D images, transverse images, and transverse in conjunction with 3D data sets, the respective sensitivity and specificity of CT in evaluation of accessory arteries by reviewer 1 were 100% and 100%, 89% and 100%, and 100% and 100%, and those by reviewer 2 were 89% and 97%, 89% and 100%, and 89% and 100%; the respective sensitivity and specificity in evaluation of venous anomalies by reviewer 1 were 100% and 98%, 100% and 98%, and 100% and 98%, and those by reviewer 2 were 100% and 98%, 100% and 95%, and 100% and 98%. For focused comprehensive assessment of renal donors with 3D scans alone, a reviewer on average (average of reviewers 1 and 2) used 2.4 minutes per scan, demonstrated full confidence in 93%, and rated the quality as excellent in 76%.

Conclusion: For focused assessment of renal vascular and urographic anatomy, review of 3D data set alone provides high sensitivity and specificity with regard to findings seen at surgery.

© RSNA, 2006