J Korean Radiol Soc.
2003 Jul;49(1):51-56. 10.3348/jkrs.2003.49.1.51.
Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head after Bone Marrow Transplantation
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- 1Department of Radiology, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea. jmpark@catholic.ac.kr
- 2Department of Orthopedic Surgery, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea.
- 3Department of Internal Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea.
- KMID: 1900135
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3348/jkrs.2003.49.1.51
Abstract
- PURPOSE
To retrospectively review finding of osteonecrosis of the femoral head after bone marrow transplantation.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
We reviewed the clinical and MR findings of osteonecrosis of the femoral head in 23 of 1112 patients who underwent marrow transplantation during a five-year follow-up period lasting from 1996 to 2000.
RESULTS
Mean age at the time of diagnosis was 31 (range, 20-47) years, and the mean time from transplant to diagnosis was 17 months. All patients developed variable graft-versus-host disease and seventeen were treated with high-dose prednisolone and/or cysclosporin for severe acute or extensive chronic graft versus host disease. Osteonecrosis was diagnosed by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, which allowed early detection of disease assessment of its stage. At the time of diagnosis, 15 hips were at stage I, 28 at stage II, two at stage III, and none at stage IV, according to the international ARCO classification system. Osteonecrosis of femoral diaphyses, the lower lumbar spine, or pelvic bones in the MR field was also found to have occurred in 11 patients. Initial treatment was conservative: 21 hips underwent surgery [core decompression (n=10), vascularized fibular bone graft (n=5), and joint replacement (n=6)].
CONCLUSION
In patients receiving high-dose steroids for the treatment of graft-versus-host disease, MR screening might help detect osteonecrosis at an early stage.
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