3D-MRE and 2D-MRE for Assessing Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension

Cirrhosis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Three-dimensional MR Elastography and Two-dimensional MR Elastography for Assessing Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06205992
• Other study ID #: ShengjingH2206
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: August 16, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: Shengjing Hospital
• Contact: Yu Shi
• Email: 18940259980[@]163.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

How to construct a novel, non-invasive, accurate, and convenient method to achieve prediction of hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) is an important general problem in the management of portal hypertension in cirrhosis. We plan to compare the ability of three demensional-magnetic resonance elastography (3D-MRE) to two demensional-magnetic resonance elastography (2D-MRE) to establish a risk stratification system and perform tailored management for portal hypertension in cirrhosis.

Description:

China suffers the heaviest burden of liver disease in the world. The number of chronic liver disease is more than 400 million. Either viral-related hepatitis, alcoholic hepatitis, or metabolic-related fatty hepatitis, etc. may progress to cirrhosis, which greatly threatens public health. Portal hypertension is a critical risk factor that correlates with clinical prognosis of patients with cirrhosis. According to the Consensus on clinical application of hepatic venous pressure gradient in China (2018), hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG) greater than 10,12,16,20 mmHg correspondingly predicts different outcomes of patients with cirrhosis portal hypertension. It is of great significance to establish a risk stratification system and perform tailored management for portal hypertension in cirrhosis. As a universal gold standard for diagnosing and monitoring portal hypertension, HVPG remains limitation for clinical application due to its invasiveness. How to construct a novel, non-invasive, accurate, and convenient method to achieve prediction of HVPG is an important general problem in the management of portal hypertension in cirrhosis. MR elastography allows for basic viscoelastic modeling of tissue, partitioning the complex shear modulus intoelastic components (eg, storage modulus) and viscous components (eg, lossmodulus and damping ratio [DR]). In previous studies, scholars have studied 2d MR elastography in cirrhosis to identify specific hepatic pathophysiologic interrelations. However, these mechanical properties of tissue measured with use of 3D MR elastography have yet to be investigated in cirrhosis to identify specific hepatic pathophysiologic interrelations. We hypothesize that these mechanical properties might be valid presumptive surrogates of cirrhosis and portal hypertension, perhaps capable of supplanting liver biopsy or other invasive diagnostic interventions. This project aims to compare the ability of three demensional-magnetic resonance elastography (3D-MRE) to two demensional-magnetic resonance elastography (2D-MRE) to establish a risk stratification system and perform tailored management for portal hypertension in cirrhosis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: August 1, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. age > 18 years old

2. confirmed cirrhosis (laboratory, imaging and clinical symptoms)

3. with 3D-MRE and 2D-MRE within 1 month prior to HVPG measurement

4. written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

1. any previous liver or spleen surgery

2. liver cancer; chronic acute liver failure

3. acute portal hypertension

4. unreliable HVPG, 3D-MRE or 2D-MRE results due to technical reasons

5. with liver interventional therapy between HVPG and MRE

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cirrhosis
• Fibrosis
• Hypertension
• Hypertension, Portal
• Liver Cirrhosis

Intervention

Device:
• 3D-MRE
All imaging studies were performed by using a 3.0-T MRI system (Signa HDx, GE Healthcare) with an eight-channel phasedarray body coil.
• HVPG
HVPG measurements are performed by well-trained interventional radiologists in accordance with standard operating procedures
• 2D-MRE
All imaging studies were performed by using a 3.0-T MRI system (Signa HDx, GE Healthcare) with an eight-channel phasedarray body coil.
• HVPG
HVPG measurements are performed by well-trained interventional radiologists in accordance with standard operating procedures

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University	Shenyang	Liaoning

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Shengjing Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

References & Publications (2)

Shi Y, Qi YF, Lan GY, Wu Q, Ma B, Zhang XY, Ji RY, Ma YJ, Hong Y. Three-dimensional MR Elastography Depicts Liver Inflammation, Fibrosis, and Portal Hypertension in Chronic Hepatitis B or C. Radiology. 2021 Oct;301(1):154-162. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2021202804. Epub 2021 Aug 10. — View Citation

Yu Q, Huang Y, Li X, Pavlides M, Liu D, Luo H, Ding H, An W, Liu F, Zuo C, Lu C, Tang T, Wang Y, Huang S, Liu C, Zheng T, Kang N, Liu C, Wang J, Akcalar S, Celebioglu E, Ustuner E, Bilgic S, Fang Q, Fu CC, Zhang R, Wang C, Wei J, Tian J, Ormeci N, Ellik Z, Asiller OO, Ju S, Qi X. An imaging-based artificial intelligence model for non-invasive grading of hepatic venous pressure gradient in cirrhotic portal hypertension. Cell Rep Med. 2022 Mar 15;3(3):100563. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100563. eCollection 2022 Mar 15. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Accuracy of the features of 3D-MRE and 2D-MRE for assessing portal hypertension in cirrhosis.	WIth HVPG as reference standand, the overall diagnostic perforemace (accuracy) for cirrhosis and portal hypertension of 3D-MRE and 2D-MRE was compared.	12 months