Recurrence of glioblastoma is associated with elevated microvascular transit time heterogeneity and increased hypoxia

Andreas Stadlbauer, Kim Mouridsen, Arnd Doerfler, Mikkel Bo Hansen, Stefan Oberndorfer, Max Zimmermann, Michael Buchfelder, Gertraud Heinz, Karl Roessler

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Abstract

Dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) perfusion MRI provide information about differences in macro- and microvasculature when executed with gradient-echo (GE; sensitive to macrovasculature) and spin-echo (SE; sensitive to microvasculature) contrast. This study investigated whether there are differences between macro- and microvascular transit time heterogeneity (MVTH and µVTH) and tissue oxygen tension (PO2mit) in newly-diagnosed and recurrent glioblastoma. Fifty-seven patients with glioblastoma (25 newly-diagnosed/32 recurrent) were examined with GE- and SE-DSC perfusion sequences, and a quantitative blood-oxygen-level-dependent (qBOLD) approach. Maps of MVTH, µVTH and coefficient of variation (MCOV and µCOV) were calculated from GE- and SE-DSC data, respectively, using an extended flow-diffusion equation. PO2mit maps were calculated from qBOLD data. Newly-diagnosed and recurrent glioblastoma showed significantly lower ( P ≤ 0.001) µCOV values compared to both normal brain and macrovasculature (MCOV) of the lesions. Recurrent glioblastoma had significantly higher µVTH ( P = 0.014) and µCOV ( P = 0.039) as well as significantly lower PO2mit values ( P = 0.008) compared to newly-diagnosed glioblastoma. The macrovasculature, however, showed no significant differences. Our findings provide evidence of microvascular adaption in the disorganized tumor vasculature for retaining the metabolic demands in stress response of therapeutically-uncontrolled glioblastomas. Thus, µVTH and PO2mit mapping gives insight into the tumor microenvironment (vascular and hypoxic niches) responsible for therapy resistance.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)422-432
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
Volume38
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01 Mar 2018

Keywords

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Blood Circulation Time
  • Brain Mapping
  • Brain Neoplasms/complications
  • Cerebrovascular Circulation
  • Female
  • Glioblastoma/complications
  • Humans
  • Hypoxia, Brain/diagnostic imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Microvessels/drug effects
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
  • Oxygen/blood
  • Perfusion Imaging
  • Tumor Microenvironment

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