OBJECTIVE: Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a serious complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study is designed to determine the feasibility of using multiparametric MRI endpoints to predict differences in seizure susceptibility after experimental TBI. METHODS: MRI imaging and behavioral measurements were performed at multiple time points after lateral fluid percussion injury (FPI) in rats. Seizure susceptibility was determined by video-electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring and off-line signal analysis after chemoconvulsant challenge. RESULTS: Multiple MRI endpoints, including measures of injury-related brain swelling (normalized interhemispheric volume difference, NIVD) and T1-weighted signal change with contrast enhancement (a measure of blood-brain barrier disruption, BBBD), reliably distinguished between injured and sham-injured animals at 72 hours after injury. ADC (apparent diffusion coefficient) values (a measure of water diffusivity) in injured cortex at 72 hours and 1 week after injury, BBBD in injured cortex at 72 hours after injury and NIVD at 72 hours after injury were significantly correlated with EEG-based measures of seizure susceptibility to chemoconvulsant challenge at 3 months after injury. CONCLUSIONS: The correlations between our MRI quantitative endpoints and EEG-based measures of seizure susceptibility to chemoconvulsant challenge in injured animals versus sham-injured animals support the feasibility of these MRI endpoints as potential biomarkers for post-traumatic epileptogenesis.
OBJECTIVE: Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a serious complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study is designed to determine the feasibility of using multiparametric MRI endpoints to predict differences in seizure susceptibility after experimental TBI. METHODS: MRI imaging and behavioral measurements were performed at multiple time points after lateral fluid percussion injury (FPI) in rats. Seizure susceptibility was determined by video-electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring and off-line signal analysis after chemoconvulsant challenge. RESULTS: Multiple MRI endpoints, including measures of injury-related brain swelling (normalized interhemispheric volume difference, NIVD) and T1-weighted signal change with contrast enhancement (a measure of blood-brain barrier disruption, BBBD), reliably distinguished between injured and sham-injured animals at 72 hours after injury. ADC (apparent diffusion coefficient) values (a measure of water diffusivity) in injured cortex at 72 hours and 1 week after injury, BBBD in injured cortex at 72 hours after injury and NIVD at 72 hours after injury were significantly correlated with EEG-based measures of seizure susceptibility to chemoconvulsant challenge at 3 months after injury. CONCLUSIONS: The correlations between our MRI quantitative endpoints and EEG-based measures of seizure susceptibility to chemoconvulsant challenge in injured animals versus sham-injured animals support the feasibility of these MRI endpoints as potential biomarkers for post-traumatic epileptogenesis.
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