Gender-specific differences of myocardial triglyceride content assessed with 1H-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at 3 Tesla

Congress:

ESCR 2015

Poster Number:

P-0017

Type:

Scientific Poster

Keywords:

Cardiac, Molecular imaging, MR, MR-Spectroscopy, Tissue characterisation

Authors:

B. Petritsch, T. Gassenmaier, J. Donhauser, T. A. Bley, M. Horn; Würzburg/DE

DOI:

DOI-Link:

https://dx.doi.org/

Fig. 2: Myocardial triglyceride content (expressed as myocardial TG/water resonance...

Fig. 3: Image shows typical examples of water-suppressed myocardial 1H-MR spectra in a...

Results

All participants of both genders successfully underwent morphological and spectroscopic imaging.

No significant difference of mTG between males (0.28%; IQR 0.17 - 0.42% [range 0.1 – 2.3%]) and females (0.24%; IQR 0.14 - 0.45% [range 0.1 – 2.1%]) was observed (Fig. 2) (p>0.05).

Figure 3 shows typical examples of myocardial ¹H-MR spectra of a 22-year old male (Fig. 3a) and a 24-year old female (Fig. 3b).