Salivary gland dynamic imaging for salivary gland damage in Sjogren's syndrome patients with normal Young's modulus value / 中华核医学与分子影像杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the damage of the salivary gland in Sjogren's syndrome (SS)patients with normal Young's modulus value (YMV) using salivary gland dynamic imaging (SGDI).Methods A total of 78 parotid glands and submandibular glands of SS patients and 100 parotid glands and submandibular glands of healthy people were collected in this retrospective study.The difference of YMV between 2 groups was analyzed with two-sample t test;receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of YMV were drawn to calculate the area under carve (AUC) and cut-off values.SGDI was used to observe the uptake ratio of 15 min (UR15) value in the SS salivary glands with normal YMV.Results The YMV of left parotid/submandibular glands and right parotid/submandibular glands were not statistically different in both SS patients and healthy people (t valuesfrom-1.192 to-0.404,all P＞0.05).The YMV of parotid/submandibular glands in SS patients was higher than that in healthy people(15.39±8.08) vs (9.33±2.21) kPa,(14.35±5.33) vs (9.18±2.36) kPa (t values7.169 and 8.662,both P＜0.05).ROC curves showed that the AUC of parotid glands and submandibular glands were 0.78 and 0.83.As the cut-off values of YMV were 10.85 kPa and 10.95 kPa,the sensitivity were 69.23％ (54/78) and 73.08％ (57/78),the specificity were 77.00％ (77/100) and 83.00％ (83/100),the positive predictive value were 70.13％ (54/77) and 77.03％ (57/74),the negative predictive value were 76.24％ (77/101) and 79.81％ (83/104),respectively.There was no statistically difference between YMV and UR15 for evaluating the SS parotid glands and submandibular glands (x2 values0.963 and 0.896,both P＞0.05).The UR15 value of 78 SS parotid glands and submandibular glands were 1.42±0.97 and 1.19±0.83,respectively.About 58.33％ (14/24) parotid glands with normal YMV (＜10.85 kPa) and 76.19％ (16/21) submandibular glands with normal YMV (＜10.95 kPa)had reduced cellular uptake in SS patients.Conclusions Parotid glands and submandibular glands in SS patients are damaged,and the tissue hardness is increased.SGDI can discover the cellular damage in SS salivary glands with normal YMV.