Tailoring Treatment in Invasive and Non-Invasive Cervical Pathology

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04 June 2021

Objective: To evaluate factors in predicting the treatment outcome of ultrasound-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (USgHIFU) ablation for uterine fibroids with a non-perfused volume ratio (NPVR) of at least 80%.

Methods: One thousand patients with uterine fibroids who received USgHIFU were enrolled. Thirty-two independent variables of four dimensions of data set, including general information of patients, clinical symptoms, laboratory tests, and fibroid imaging characteristics, were used to investigate the potential predictors of the NPVR of at least 80% by multivariate logistic regression. NPVR was the gold standard for evaluating the efficiency of HIFU ablation, and a NPVR of at least 80% was considered sufficient ablation, while partial ablation was defined as having an NPVR of <80%.

Results: Out of 1,000 fibroids, 758 obtained sufficient ablation and 242 obtained partial ablation, and the median NPVR was 88.3% (interquartile range: 80.3–94.8%). The probability of NPVR reaching 80% fibroids with a signal intensity of T2WI of hypointense, isointense, and hyperintense was 86.4, 76.5, and 62.6%, respectively; fibroids with an enhancement type of T1WI of slight, irregular, and regular was 81.5, 73.6, and 63.7%, respectively; and fibroids with uterine anteroposterior of 30–130 mm was 57.7–78.3%, respectively. In patients with a platelet count of 50 × 109/L−550 × 109/L, the probability of NPVR reaching 80% is from 53.4 to 80.1%, respectively.

Conclusions: In predicting NPVR ≥ 80%, the signal intensity on T2WI was the most important factor affecting ablative efficiency, followed by enhancement type on T1WI, uterine anteroposterior, and platelet count.

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