Alex Mun-Ching Wong1, Chih-Hua Yeh2, Jainn-Jim Lin3, Ho-Ling Liu4, I-Jun Chou5, Kuang-Lin Lin5, Huei-Shyong Wang5. 1. Department of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung/Linkou, and Chang Gung University, 5 Fu-Hsing Street, Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan. alexmcwchop@yahoo.com. 2. Department of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung/Linkou, and Chang Gung University, 5 Fu-Hsing Street, Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan. 3. Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan. 4. Department of Imaging Physics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. 5. Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Children's Hospital and Chang Gung University, Linkou, Taiwan.
Abstract
PURPOSE: In childhood encephalitis, perfusion abnormalities have been infrequently reported to associate with clinical status. We investigated whether perfusion abnormalities correlated with seizure and clinical outcome in encephalitis. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the MR studies of 77 pediatric patients with encephalitis. Pseudo-continuous arterial spin-labeling (ASL) imaging was performed on a 3-T scanner. The patients were divided into five groups according to ASL perfusion imaging pattern: normal perfusion (NP), focal hypoperfusion (Lf), extreme global hypoperfusion (LE), focal hyperperfusion (Hf), and extreme global hyperperfusion (HE). Clinical outcome at 3 weeks was dichotomized to unfavorable or favorable outcome according to the Glasgow outcome scale. Multivariate logistic regression was conducted to predict unfavorable outcome and presence of seizure separately, based on explanatory variables including age, sex, and ASL pattern. RESULTS: Twenty-seven (35%) patients were designated as in group Hf, five (7%) in group Lf, 11 (14%) in group LE, none in group HE, and 34 (44%) in group NP. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that ASL pattern was significantly associated with unfavorable outcome (P = 0.005) and with presence of seizure (P = 0.005). For ASL pattern, group LE was 17.31 times as likely to have an unfavorable outcome as group NP (odds ratio confidence interval [CI] 3.084, 97.105; P = 0.001). Group Hf was 6.383 times as likely to have seizure as group NP (CI 1.765, 23.083; P = 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: In childhood encephalitis, patients with extreme global hypoperfusion had poor neurological outcome and those with focal hypoperfusion were more likely to have seizure.
PURPOSE: In childhood encephalitis, perfusion abnormalities have been infrequently reported to associate with clinical status. We investigated whether perfusion abnormalities correlated with seizure and clinical outcome in encephalitis. METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the MR studies of 77 pediatric patients with encephalitis. Pseudo-continuous arterial spin-labeling (ASL) imaging was performed on a 3-T scanner. The patients were divided into five groups according to ASL perfusion imaging pattern: normal perfusion (NP), focal hypoperfusion (Lf), extreme global hypoperfusion (LE), focal hyperperfusion (Hf), and extreme global hyperperfusion (HE). Clinical outcome at 3 weeks was dichotomized to unfavorable or favorable outcome according to the Glasgow outcome scale. Multivariate logistic regression was conducted to predict unfavorable outcome and presence of seizure separately, based on explanatory variables including age, sex, and ASL pattern. RESULTS: Twenty-seven (35%) patients were designated as in group Hf, five (7%) in group Lf, 11 (14%) in group LE, none in group HE, and 34 (44%) in group NP. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that ASL pattern was significantly associated with unfavorable outcome (P = 0.005) and with presence of seizure (P = 0.005). For ASL pattern, group LE was 17.31 times as likely to have an unfavorable outcome as group NP (odds ratio confidence interval [CI] 3.084, 97.105; P = 0.001). Group Hf was 6.383 times as likely to have seizure as group NP (CI 1.765, 23.083; P = 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: In childhood encephalitis, patients with extreme global hypoperfusion had poor neurological outcome and those with focal hypoperfusion were more likely to have seizure.
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