Jordon, Louise Helen;
Ganeshan, Balaji;
Nadeem, Iftikhar;
Hoy, Luke;
Mahdi, Noor;
Porter, Joanna C;
Groves, Ashley;
(2024)
Can FDG-PET/CT imaging be used to predict decline in quality of life in interstitial lung disease? A prospective study of the relationship between FDG uptake and quality of life in a UK outpatient setting.
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Abstract
Background: 18 Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose (18 F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) CT imaging has been used in many inflammatory and infectious conditions to differentiate areas of increased metabolic activity. FDG uptake differs between areas of normal lung parenchyma and interstitial lung disease (ILD). Objectives: In this study, we investigated whether FDG-PET/CT parameters were associated with a change in the quality of life (QoL) in patients with ILD over 4 years of follow-up. Methods: Patients underwent PET-CT imaging at diagnosis and were followed up with annual QoL assessment using the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) until death or 4 years of follow-up. Maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax) and Tissue-to-Background Ratio (TBR) were assessed against SGRQ overall and subscale scores. Results: 193 patients (94 patients in the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) subgroup and 99 patients in the non-IPF subgroup) underwent baseline FDG-PET/CT imaging and QoL assessment. Weak-to-moderate correlation was observed between baseline SUVmax and SGRQ scores in both ILD subgroups. No relationship was observed between baseline SUVmax or TBR and change in SGRQ scores over 4 years of follow-up. In the IPF subgroup, surviving patients reported a decline in QoL at 4 years post diagnosis whereas an improvement in QoL was seen in surviving patients with non-IPF ILD. Conclusions: Weak-to-moderate positive correlation between baseline SUVmax and SGRQ scores was observed in both ILD subgroups (IPF:r s =0.187, p=0.047, non-IPF: r s =0.320, p=0.001). However, baseline SUVmax and TBR were not associated with change in QoL in patients with IPF and non-IPF ILD over 4 years of follow-up. At 4 years post diagnosis, surviving patients with IPF reported declining QoL whereas improvement was seen in patients with ILD who did not have IPF.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Can FDG-PET/CT imaging be used to predict decline in quality of life in interstitial lung disease? A prospective study of the relationship between FDG uptake and quality of life in a UK outpatient setting |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081103 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081103 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Y |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Respiratory Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Department of Imaging |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204717 |
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