Twelve-month prostate volume reduction after MRI-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation of the prostate.
David BonekampM B WolfM C RoethkeS PahernikB A HadaschikG HatibogluT H KuruI V PopeneciuJ L ChinM BilliaJ RelleJ HafronK R NandalurR M StaruchM BurtnykM HohenfellnerH-P SchlemmerPublished in: European radiology (2018)
• MRI-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation (TULSA) achieved an 88% reduction of viable prostate tissue volume at 12 months, in excellent agreement with expectation from thermal dose calculations. • Non-perfused volume on immediate post-treatment contrast-enhanced MRI represents only 64% of the acute thermal ablation volume (ATAV), and reports only 60% (53% instead of 88% achieved) of the reduction in viable prostate tissue volume at 12 months. • MR-thermometry-based predictions of 12-month prostate volume reduction based on 240 cumulative equivalent minute thermal dose volume are in excellent agreement with reduction in viable prostate tissue volume measured on pre- and 12-month post-treatment T2w-MRI.