Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY
Volume 202, Issue 5, Pages 1022-1026Publisher
AMER ROENTGEN RAY SOC
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.13.10852
Keywords
aging; MRCP; pancreatic duct; pancreatic juice; secretory flow
Funding
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24591796] Funding Source: KAKEN
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OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study is to evaluate age-related changes in the secretory flow of pancreatic juice in the main pancreatic duct noninvasively by means of nonpharmacologic cine-dynamic MRCP using spatially selective inversion recovery (IR) pulse. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Fifty-three subjects without a history of pancreatic disease were included. Four-second breath-hold MRCP using spatially selective IR pulse was performed every 15 seconds during 5 minutes (acquiring a total of 20 images) in cine-dynamic fashion. The secretion grade was classified into five grades by the distance of pancreatic juice inflow within the tagged area. The mean secretion grade and the frequency of secretion in cine-dynamic MRCP were compared among three age-range groups (group 1, < 40 years; group 2, 40-70 years; and group 3, > 70 years). Statistical analysis was performed using Spearman rank correlation coefficient and Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests. RESULTS. The secretion grade and the frequency of secretion were significantly reduced with aging (r = -0.77, p < 0.001; and r = -0.74, p < 0.001, respectively). The mean secretion grade and the frequency of secretion were significantly lower in group 3 than in group 2 (mean grade, 0.36 vs 1.48, p = 0.001; and 4.8 vs 11.9 times, p = 0.001) and were lower in group 2 than in group 1 (mean grade, 1.48 vs 2.48, p < 0.001; and 11.9 vs 16.2 times, p = 0.011). CONCLUSION. Cine-dynamic MRCP using spatially selective IR pulse was able to show the age-related decrease of the secretory flow of pancreatic juice in the main pancreatic duct visually and noninvasively.
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