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Renal
Prof John Buscombe
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Renal nuclear Medicine
• Only consistent test of kidney func7on • Many good tests for renal anatomy • Ultrasound good looking at cysts and renal pelvis • CT can look at perfusion, size and shape of kidneys • MRI increasing use can combine some features of anatomy and func7on
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3-‐D CT of renal vasculature
Concomitant Stenoses
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MRI with contrast can look at renal func<on
ARTERIAL PHASE VENOUS PHASE
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NUCLEAR MEDICINE Is func<onal Imaging
• To visualise an organ needs a contrast with the surrounding tissue.
• Radiography/CT needs difference in density.• MRI needs difference in protons.• Ultrasound needs difference in reflectivity.• Nuclear Medicine needs difference in function.
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Func<onal Imaging
Tracers• Tracer is substance added to a physiological pathway, which is handled by that pathway but does not disturb it. • Requires small chemical amount of material, but high contrast with tissue which does not contain pathway.
• Tc-99m-DTPA is a tracer for glomerular filtration • Intra-coronary angiographic contrast is not a
tracer for coronary flow.
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Renal Func<on? 24hrs GFR
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Total renal func<on
• No pure imaging method works• Best is to measure GFR with Cr-51-
EDTA or Tc- 99m-DTPA and blood sampling.
• Single-kidney GFR from total + divided function from DMSA.
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Structure of the nephron
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Imaging Func<on
Which Function?Which Agent?
• Glomerular Filtration• Tc-99m-DTPA• Tc-99m-MDP
• Glomerular Filtration + Tubular Function• Tc-99m-MAG3
• Tubular Function• Tc-99m-DMSA
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Structure of the nephron Tc-‐99m MAG3 Tc-‐99m DTPA Tc-‐99m DMSA Cr-‐51 EDTA
Tc-‐99m MAG3
Tc-‐99m MAG3 Tc-‐99m DTPA Cr-‐51 EDTA
Tc-‐99m DMSA
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Even Tc-‐99m MDP in renal imaging
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Imaging divided func<on
• Rate of uptake of dynamic tracer• Integral/slope methods• Rutland/Patlak plot
• Degree of retention of static tracer• NB Need to correct for background
activity
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Func<on involves <me
Radiation Dose in Nuclear Medicine does not depend on time - therefore:
• Can image time-dependent changes• Transit• Ureteric peristalsis
• Can measure changes• Response to stimulus
< Frusemide< Captopril
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Func<onal Imaging
Dynamic renal imaging• Assess relative renal perfusion• Estimate divided function• Estimate parenchymal clearance and
retention• Assess drainage• Measure response to diuresis• Image ureteric peristalsis
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Normal renal study MAG3
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The renogram
Activity
Time
Perfusion spike
Uptake phase
Peak or plateau phase
Excretory phase
Frame rate 0.5-1 sec for 30-60 secs
Frame rate 10 sec for 20 minutes
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Renal impairment
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Func<onal Imaging
Response to Stress• Frusemide-induced Diuresis• Renal Vascular Stress
• Captopril• Aspirin• Exercise
• Prostaglandin Inhibitors• Diclofenac (Voltarol)
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Stress Response
Diuresis• Definition of obstruction
< Inability to cope with urine flow• Need adequate diuresis
• Adequate hydration• Lasix 15 min before (F-15)• Measure diuresis
• Quantitate response• Cumulative despite Furosemideput
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F + 15
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F-‐15
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Func<onal Imaging
Static renal imaging• Images localisation of function (and of loss
of function)• Estimate divided function• Allows localisation of kidney tissue• SPECT gives better impression of shape• BUT is non-specific (what is a scar?)• Does it happen in adults? If so whom?
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Use of DMSA
• In children most commonly used to look for scars • Can be used to look for acute infec7on (which is why 4-‐6 months must elapse aRer last UTI 7ll DMSA)
• Use in children over 5 and adults less clear • But can be combined with GFR to predict GFR aRer nephrectomy
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5 year old with Hx of UTIs
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Quan<fying uptake
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Scars in right kidney
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Who to scan?
• Controversy re-‐started • Was any child under 6 with one episode of UTI • Now less clear the we can jus7fy radia7on • For girls now needs more than one infec7on unless with an organism other than e.coli
• No evidence that old or new approach WILL reduce adult hypertension
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Horseshoe kidney
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Func<onal Imaging
Isotope Cystography• Contrast cystography is not functional
(even if it gives some functional/volume answers).
• Indirect cystography is functional.• Good in children with bladder control• Good for follow-up• Doesn't show anatomy• Needs good patient co-operation for
acquisition
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Reflux study
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Reflux in a duplex kidney
Arrows show episodes of yo-yo reflux form lower to upper moeity
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Captopril renography
• To look for renovascular disease • 2 peaks young FMD and older AthScl • Do base line study if abnormal then do not do post captopril
• If baseline normal give 25mg captopril • If RVD captopril will shut down ACEdrive on affected kidney
• Delayed peak, reduced divided func7on and delayed parenchymal transit
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Renogram in RAS (on ACEI)
Delayed peak
Parenchymal retention
Reduced divided function
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Selection of hypertensive patients • Presented to hospital • Asymmetric renal size • Unexpected renal failure
• especially after ACE inhibitor therapy • Diabetes • Difficulty in control of hypertension • “Flash” pulmonary oedema
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European Mul<centre Study
• 454 pa7ents from 19 centres • ALL had angiography
• 244 with renal artery stenosis • Tc-‐99m-‐DTPA
• 183 normal • 197 stenosis • 124 (33%) > 70% stenosis
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European Mul<centre Study • Interven7ons:
• 76 angioplasty • 39 surgical bypass • 6 nephrectomy
• Follow-‐up • 87 3 months • 57 6 months • 36 12 months
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European Mul<centre Study
• Best sensi7vity: • Post-‐Captopril DTPA – 95%
• Best specificity: • Change in func7on or transit – 85%
• Correla7on with blood pressure normalisa7on – 90%
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Selection of hypertensive patients for captopril study • Presented to hospital • Asymmetric renal size • Unexpected renal failure
• especially after ACE inhibitor therapy • Diabetes • Difficulty in control of hypertension • “Flash” pulmonary oedema
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Captopril protocol 1
• Baseline renogram (DTPA or MAG3) • Repeat study 60-90 min after 25 mg oral
Captopril • Stop oral ACEI / Losartan 3-5 days • Stop diuretics 5 days • Avoid sodium depletion • Clear fluids only for 4h
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Captopril protocol 2 • On arrival, check compliance • Put on couch
• check veins • put on b/p cuff • check doctor present
• Give captopril (?crushed) + fluids • Monitor blood pressure • Give i/v saline (if necessary).
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Captopril renography • Patient voids - time noted • Supine renography with MAG3 or DTPA • Bolus injection • 1/sec for 40 secs; 1/20 secs for 20 min • Erect image • Patient voids - time and volume noted • Erect image post-void
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Data analysis • Summed images, displayed on absolute scale
• 0-2 min • 4-6 min • 12-14 min • 18-20 min
• Automatic renal ROIs based on 2-min image • Peri-renal background • Basic curve analysis
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Criteria for analysis
• 5% or greater change in divided function • >1 grade change in renogram = high
probability • 1 grade change in cortex = high
probability
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Consensus meeting grading of renogram curves for Captopril
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It’s not always so easy…..
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Renal transplanta<on Where can imaging help?
• Donor assessment • Acute post-‐opera7ve complica7ons • Early post-‐transplant period • Late post-‐transplant period
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Perfusion Index Hilson 1976!
Since 1976• FNA/biopsy have become safer• New drugs have slowed down rejection
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Results CHANGE Is Important
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Early phases
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ATN – MAG3
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“Black Holes”
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Lymphocoele
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Leaks
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From Brown et al, RadioGraphics, 20, 607-622, 2000
Figure 18b. Severe transplant rejection. (a) Duplex color Doppler US image shows a spectral waveform in which the arterial flow in diastole is reversed. Differential diagnosis for this finding includes acute tubular necrosis and renal vein thrombosis. (b) On another duplex image, the spectral waveform shows that the renal vein is patent, thus the diagnosis of renal vein thrombosis is excluded. Findings from biopsy confirmed transplant rejection.
Figure 18a. Severe transplant rejection. (a) Duplex color Doppler US image shows a spectral waveform in which the arterial flow in diastole is reversed. Differential diagnosis for this finding includes acute tubular necrosis and renal vein thrombosis. (b) On another duplex image, the spectral waveform shows that the renal vein is patent, thus the diagnosis of renal vein thrombosis is excluded. Findings from biopsy confirmed transplant rejection.
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MAG3 vs Doppler US
• MAG3 • Quan7fiable and reporducable
• Can reliably iden7fy infarcted kidney
• Able to find slow leaks
• Doppler US • No radia7on • Bed side test • Resisitve index correlates well with rejec7on but not reproducable
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Dupont et al Transplanta<on 2007
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Dupont et al DMSA SPECT in Tx
A=scar, B=rejection , C=vascular damage
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How many transplants?
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Summary
• Renal nuclear medicine provides unique func7onal informa7on
• Different studies assess different aspects of renal func7on
• Studies are quan7fiable and so can be used to compare pa7ents and over 7me within a pa7ent
• Does not need fancy equipment like PET