ISMRM22 - COVID

Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB & ISMRT 31st Annual Meeting • 07-12 May 2022 • London, UK

COVID

ISMRT Educational Session

ORGANIZERS: Huijun Liao, Adam Scotson

Sunday, 08 May 2022

ICC Capital Suite 17

15:00 - 16:30

Moderators: Adam Scotson & Nina Salman

Session Number: ISMRT-08

Session Number: ISMRT-08

Overview
This session will provide an update on clinical sequale associated with CoVID-19, also provide an overview of emerging research.
The first session will cover the latest CoVID-19 associated neurological disease findings, the second session will explore findings in pregnant patients and the final session will demonstrate the utility of novel Hyperpolarised Xe gas lung MRI in patients after they have recovered from CoVID-19 Pneumonia

Target Audience
MR Radiographers and Technologists, Clinicians and Physicists

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
1. Identify the spectrum of neurological symptoms associated directly and indirectly with CoVID-19
2. Describe how the fundamentals of hyperpolarised gas imaging in MR
3. Describe key MR features in patients with restricted gas transfer recovering from CoVID-19 pneumonia.

	15:00		Longitudinal Lung Function Assessment of Patients Hospitalised with COVID-19 Using 1H & 129Xe Lung MRI Video Unavailable Jim Wild In this study we utilised a comprehensive, multinuclear MRI protocol which combines hyperpolarised 129Xe imaging methods sensitive to ventilation, lung microstructure (DW-MRI) and gas exchange (dissolved xenon spectroscopic imaging) alongside 1H DCE perfusion and UTE lung structural imaging to assess pathophysiological changes in patients who had been hospitalised with COVID-19 pneumonia, during the post-acute period.
	15:30		Brain MRI Findings in Infants During the COVID-19 Pandemic View the Presentation Catherine Lebel The COVID-19 pandemic has led to substantially elevated stress for many people, and especially pregnant individuals. Prenatal stress, including depression and anxiety symptoms, can have negative consequences for infants and children, including structural and functional brain alterations, as well as a higher risk of behaviour problems. I co-lead a Canada-wide study of mental and physical health, life changes, and birth/infant outcomes: Pregnancy during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Here, I will present our structural and functional neuroimaging findings in a group of infants born during the pandemic, in relation to their prenatal stress.
	16:00		MRI as an Autopsy Tool & Its Use in the COVID Pandemic View the Presentation Khallil Chaim A medical imaging center (with US, CT and 7 Tesla MRI) integrated into the largest autopsy service for natural deaths in Latin America plays an important role in times of a pandemic. Recently, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has raised concerns around the world, requiring a rapid response combined with challenges due to biohazard. In this context, high-resolution MRI of the post mortem brain of deceased patients with COVID-19, with histological correlations, allows better understanding of COVID-19 beyond the characteristic primary pneumonia.