皮质发育不良
部分各向异性
磁共振弥散成像
医学
神经组阅片室
病理
癫痫持续状态
癫痫
磁共振成像
有效扩散系数
放射科
神经学
精神科
作者
Antonio Giulio Gennari,Dorottya Cserpán,Ilona Stefanos‐Yakoub,Raimund Kottke,Ruth L. O’Gorman,Georgia Ramantani
标识
DOI:10.1186/s13244-023-01368-y
摘要
Although diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) may facilitate the identification of cytoarchitectural changes associated with focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), the predominant aetiology of paediatric structural epilepsy, its potential has thus far remained unexplored in this population. Here, we investigated whether DTI indices can differentiate FCD from contralateral brain parenchyma (CBP) and whether clinical features affect these indices.In this single-centre, retrospective study, we considered children and adolescents with FCD-associated epilepsy who underwent brain magnetic resonance (MRI), including DTI. Fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity, and radial diffusivity, were calculated in both FCD and CBP. The DTI indices best discriminating between FCD and CBP were subsequently used to assess the link between DTI and selected clinical and lesion-related parameters.We enrolled 32 patients (20 male; median age at MRI 4 years), including 15 with histologically confirmed FCD. FA values were lower (p = 0.03), whereas MD values were higher in FCD than in CBP (p = 0.04). The difference in FA values between FCD and CBP was more pronounced for a positive vs. negative history of status epilepticus (p = 0.004). Among histologically confirmed cases, the difference in FA values between FCD and CBP was more pronounced for type IIb versus type I FCD (p = 0.03).FA and MD discriminate between FCD and CBP, while FA differentiates between FCD types. Status epilepticus increases differences in FA, potentially reflecting changes induced in the brain. Our findings support the potential of DTI to serve as a non-invasive biomarker to characterise FCD in the paediatric population.
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