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. 2018 Dec;47(12):1587-1593.
doi: 10.1007/s00256-018-2948-y. Epub 2018 May 3.

Diagnostic accuracy of dual-energy CT in gout: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Zhange Yu  1 , Tianli Mao  2 , Yaping Xu  2 , Tengqi Li  2 , Yanhua Wang  3 , Fuqiang Gao  4   5 , Wei Sun  6   7
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Diagnostic accuracy of dual-energy CT in gout: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Zhange Yu et al. Skeletal Radiol. 2018 Dec.

Abstract

Objective: Dual-energy CT (DECT) is being widely used in suspected gout patients in recent years. Many clinicians tend to use DECT instead of aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of gout, but its accuracy has shown controversial results. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we sought to evaluate the accuracy of DECT in the diagnosis of gout.

Materials and methods: We performed a systematic review of the literature published in Medline, Embase, PubMed, and Cochrane databases. Studies included are all clinical trials of DECT in the diagnosis of gout. Quality assessment of bias and applicability was conducted using the Quality of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 (QUADAS-2). We recorded sensitivity and specificity of algorithms and calculated positive likelihood ratio (PLR), negative likelihood ratio (NLR) and diagnostic odd ratio (DOR), and respective confidence intervals (CI). The summary receiver operating characteristic curve (sROC) was drawn to get the Cochran Q-index and the area under the curve (AUC).

Results: Seven studies were included in this review and showed high homogeneity. The analysis results presented the pooled sensitivity was 88% (95% CI 84-90%) and specificity was 90% (95% CI 85-93%). Then, we figured out that the pooled PLR was 8.48 (95% CI 5.89-12.22) and NLR was 0.10 (95% CI 0.04-0.24) respectively. In addition, Cochran-Q was 0.90 and AUC was 0.9565 in sROC curve.

Conclusions: DECT showed relatively high sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis of gout. Synthetically considering these DECT abnormalities could improve the diagnostic sensitivity. More rigorous and standardized studies are still needed to support these findings.

Keywords: Diagnosis; Dual-energy CT; Gout; Meta-analysis; Systematic review.

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