Pancreatic Shear Wave Elastography in Children with Type 1 Diabetes: Relation to Diabetes Duration, Glycemic Indices, Fasting C-peptide and Diabetic Complications

Overview

Journal Pediatr Radiol

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2022 Apr 23

PMID 35460036

Authors

Nouran Yousef Salah

Sherihane Said Madkour

Khaled Sayed Soliman

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Abstract

Background: Little is known about changes in the pancreas as the course of type 1 diabetes progresses. Recently, shear wave elastography (SWE) emerged as a tool for assessing pancreatic stiffness in chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer with a few studies assessing it in diabetes.

Objective: To compare pancreatic SWE in children with recent-onset and long-standing type 1 diabetes to healthy controls and to correlate it with diabetes duration, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C), functional B cell reserve (fasting C-peptide) and diabetic complications.

Materials And Methods: Fifty children with type 1 diabetes (25 with recent-onset and 25 with long-standing type 1 diabetes) and 50 controls were enrolled. Diabetes duration, insulin therapy, fundoscopic examination of the eyes and the neuropathy disability score were assessed. Fasting C-peptide, lipids, HbA1C and urinary albumin-creatinine ratio were measured. Pancreatic SWE was measured using the General Electric Logiq P9 ultrasound system.

Results: The mean SWE of the studied children with recent-onset type 1 diabetes was 4.81±0.62 kilopascals (Kpa), those with long-standing type 1 diabetes was 7.10±1.56Kpa and for controls was 5.57±0.27 Kpa (P<0.001). SWE was positively correlated to diabetes duration (P<0.001) and negatively correlated to fasting C-peptide (P<0.001). Regarding diabetes complications, SWE was positively correlated to frequency of severe hypoglycemia (P=0.005), HbA1C (P=0.03), low-density lipoproteins (P<0.001) and cholesterol (P<0.001) and significantly related to diabetic neuropathy (P=0.04) and nephropathy (P=0.05). Diabetes duration, fasting C-peptide, HbA1C and frequency of severe hypoglycemia were the significant independent variables related to SWE increase by multivariable regression analysis.

Conclusion: Pancreatic SWE changes significantly with duration of type 1 diabetes, being lowest in those with recent-onset type 1 diabetes and highest in those with long-standing type 1 diabetes, particularly those with diabetic nephropathy and neuropathy.

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