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Lee VK, Ceschin R, Reynolds WT, Meyers B, Wallace J, Landsittel D, Joseph HM, Badaly D, Gaynor JW, Licht D, Greene NH, Brady KM, Hunter JV, Chu ZD, Wilde EA, Easley RB, Andropoulos D, Panigrahy A. Postnatal Brain Trajectories and Maternal Intelligence Predict Childhood Outcomes in Complex CHD. J Clin Med 2024; 13:2922. [PMID: 38792464 PMCID: PMC11121951 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13102922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2024] [Revised: 04/25/2024] [Accepted: 05/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
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Objective: To determine whether early structural brain trajectories predict early childhood neurodevelopmental deficits in complex CHD patients and to assess relative cumulative risk profiles of clinical, genetic, and demographic risk factors across early development. Study Design: Term neonates with complex CHDs were recruited at Texas Children's Hospital from 2005-2011. Ninety-five participants underwent three structural MRI scans and three neurodevelopmental assessments. Brain region volumes and white matter tract fractional anisotropy and radial diffusivity were used to calculate trajectories: perioperative, postsurgical, and overall. Gross cognitive, language, and visuo-motor outcomes were assessed with the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development and with the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence and Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration. Multi-variable models incorporated risk factors. Results: Reduced overall period volumetric trajectories predicted poor language outcomes: brainstem ((β, 95% CI) 0.0977, 0.0382-0.1571; p = 0.0022) and white matter (0.0023, 0.0001-0.0046; p = 0.0397) at 5 years; brainstem (0.0711, 0.0157-0.1265; p = 0.0134) and deep grey matter (0.0085, 0.0011-0.0160; p = 0.0258) at 3 years. Maternal IQ was the strongest contributor to language variance, increasing from 37% at 1 year, 62% at 3 years, and 81% at 5 years. Genetic abnormality's contribution to variance decreased from 41% at 1 year to 25% at 3 years and was insignificant at 5 years. Conclusion: Reduced postnatal subcortical-cerebral white matter trajectories predicted poor early childhood neurodevelopmental outcomes, despite high contribution of maternal IQ. Maternal IQ was cumulative over time, exceeding the influence of known cardiac and genetic factors in complex CHD, underscoring the importance of heritable and parent-based environmental factors.
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- Vincent K. Lee
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA;
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; (R.C.); (W.T.R.); (B.M.); (J.W.)
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; (R.C.); (W.T.R.); (B.M.); (J.W.)
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; (R.C.); (W.T.R.); (B.M.); (J.W.)
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; (R.C.); (W.T.R.); (B.M.); (J.W.)
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; (R.C.); (W.T.R.); (B.M.); (J.W.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Professions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA;
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA;
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- Learning and Development Center, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY 10022, USA;
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- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;
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- Perinatal Pediatrics Institute, Children’s National Hospital, Washinton, DC 20010, USA;
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- Anesthesiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA;
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- Department of Pediatrics and Department of Anesthesiology, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA;
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- Department of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; (J.V.H.); (Z.D.C.); (E.A.W.)
- H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; (J.V.H.); (Z.D.C.); (E.A.W.)
- H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; (J.V.H.); (Z.D.C.); (E.A.W.)
- H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; (R.B.E.); (D.A.)
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- Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; (R.B.E.); (D.A.)
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA;
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; (R.C.); (W.T.R.); (B.M.); (J.W.)
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
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Lee VK, Reynolds WT, Wallace J, Beluk N, Badaly D, Lo CW, Ceschin R, Panigrahy A. Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Cerebral Spinal Fluid Flow Properties and Executive Function Cognitive Outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2024.04.19.24306104. [PMID: 38699300 PMCID: PMC11065010 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.19.24306104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2024]
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulation has recently been shown to be important in nutrient distribution, waste removal, and neurogenesis. Increased CSF volumes are frequently observed in congenital heart disease (CHD) and are associated with neurodevelopmental deficits. This suggests prolonged perturbation to the CSF system and possible interference to its homeostatic function, which may contribute to the neurodevelopmental deficits in CHD. CSF flow has yet to be studied in CHD patients, but the pulsatile flow of CSF throughout the brain is driven mainly by cardiopulmonary circulation. Given the underlying heart defects in CHD, the cardiopulmonary circulatory mechanisms in CHD might be impaired with resultant perturbation on the CSF circulation. In this study, we determine whether CSF flow, using MRI measurements of static and dynamic pulsatile flow, is abnormal in youths with CHD compared to healthy controls in relation to executive cognitive function. CSF flow measurements were obtained on a total of 58 child and young adult participants (CHD=20, healthy controls = 38). The CSF flow was measured across the lumen of the Aqueduct of Sylvius using cardiac-gated phase-contrast MRI at 3.0T. Static pulsatility was characterized as anterograde and retrograde peak velocities, mean velocity, velocity variance measurements, and dynamic pulsatility calculated as each participant's CSF flow deviation from the study cohort's consensus flow measured with root mean squared deviation (RMSD) were obtained. The participants had neurocognitive assessments for executive function with focus on inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and working memory domains. The CHD group demonstrated greater dynamic pulsatility (higher overall flow RMSD over the entire CSF flow cycle) compared to controls (p=0.0353), with no difference detected in static pulsatility measures. However, lower static CSF flow pulsatility (anterograde peak velocity: p=0.0323) and lower dynamic CSF flow pulsatility (RMSD: p=0.0181) predicted poor inhibitory executive function outcome. Taken together, while the whole CHD group exhibited higher dynamic CSF flow pulsatility compared to controls, the subset of CHD subjects with relatively reduced static and dynamic CSF flow pulsatility had the worst executive functioning, specifically the inhibition domain. These findings suggest that altered CSF flow pulsatility may be central to not only brain compensatory mechanisms but can also drive cognitive impairment in CHD. Further studies are needed to investigate possible mechanistic etiologies of aberrant CSF pulsatility (i.e. primary cardiac hemodynamic disturbances, intrinsic brain vascular stiffness, altered visco-elastic properties of tissue, or glial-lymphatic disturbances), which can result in acquired small vessel brain injury (including microbleeds and white matter hyperintensities).
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Lee VK, Wallace J, Meyers B, Racki A, Shah A, Beluk NH, Cabral L, Beers S, Badaly D, Lo C, Panigrahy A, Ceschin R. Cerebral Spinal Fluid Volumetrics and Paralimbic Predictors of Executive Dysfunction in Congenital Heart Disease: A Machine Learning Approach Informing Mechanistic Insights. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2023:2023.10.16.23297055. [PMID: 37905005 PMCID: PMC10615017 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.16.23297055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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The relationship between increased cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) ventricular compartments, structural and microstructural dysmaturation, and executive function in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) is unknown. Here, we leverage a novel machine-learning data-driven technique to delineate interrelationships between CSF ventricular volume, structural and microstructural alterations, clinical risk factors, and sub-domains of executive dysfunction in adolescent CHD patients. We trained random forest regression models to predict measures of executive function (EF) from the NIH Toolbox, the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS), and the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) and across three subdomains of EF - mental flexibility, working memory, and inhibition. We estimated the best parameters for the random forest algorithm via a randomized grid search of parameters using 10-fold cross-validation on the training set only. The best parameters were then used to fit the model on the full training set and validated on the test set. Algorithm performance was measured using root-mean squared-error (RMSE). As predictors, we included patient clinical variables, perioperative clinical measures, microstructural white matter (diffusion tensor imaging- DTI), and structural volumes (volumetric magnetic resonance imaging- MRI). Structural white matter was measured using along-tract diffusivity measures of 13 inter-hemispheric and cortico-association fibers. Structural volumes were measured using FreeSurfer and manual segmentation of key structures. Variable importance was measured by the average Gini-impurity of each feature across all decision trees in which that feature is present in the model, and functional ontology mapping (FOM) was used to measure the degree of overlap in feature importance for each EF subdomain and across subdomains. We found that CSF structural properties (including increased lateral ventricular volume and reduced choroid plexus volumes) in conjunction with proximate cortical projection and paralimbic-related association white matter tracts that straddle the lateral ventricles and distal paralimbic-related subcortical structures (basal ganglia, hippocampus, cerebellum) are predictive of two-specific subdomains of executive dysfunction in CHD patients: cognitive flexibility and inhibition. These findings in conjunction with combined RF models that incorporated clinical risk factors, highlighted important clinical risk factors, including the presence of microbleeds, altered vessel volume, and delayed PDA closure, suggesting that CSF-interstitial fluid clearance, vascular pulsatility, and glymphatic microfluid dynamics may be pathways that are impaired in CHD, providing mechanistic information about the relationship between CSF and executive dysfunction.
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- Vince K. Lee
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
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Sahel A, Ceschin R, Badaly D, Lewis M, Lee VK, Wallace J, Weinberg J, Schmithorst V, Lo C, Panigrahy A. Increased Cerebello-Prefrontal Connectivity Predicts Poor Executive Function in Congenital Heart Disease. J Clin Med 2023; 12:5264. [PMID: 37629306 PMCID: PMC10455623 DOI: 10.3390/jcm12165264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Revised: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) are at risk for cognitive impairments, such as executive function deficits and motor delays, which can impact their academic and adaptive functioning as well as their quality of life. We investigated whether alterations in connectivity between the prefrontal and cerebellar brain structures exist between CHD and control cohorts and if these alterations could predict cognitive or motor impairment among youths with CHD. METHODS 53 participants with CHD and 73 healthy control participants completed multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, including high-resolution diffusion tensor imaging at 3T. We measured connectivity from masked regions of interest in the cerebellum to the frontal cortex using a probabilistic tractography method. Participants also completed neuropsychological tests of cognitive and motor skills using the NIH Toolbox. RESULTS In the CHD group, fractional anisotropy (FA) was increased in the cognitive loop connectivity pathways, including from the right cerebellum to the left thalamus (p = 0.0002) and from the left thalamus to the left medial frontal gyrus (MFG) (p = 0.0048) compared with the healthy control group. In contrast, there were no differences between CHD and controls in motor loop connectivity pathways. An increase in FA from the right thalamus to the MFG tract in the cognitive loop (posterior subdivision) predicted (p = 0.03) lower scores on the NIHTB tests, including those of executive functioning. A transient increase in connectivity of the cognitive loop in the adolescent group was observed relative to the child and adult groups. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that selective alteration of cerebellum-cerebral connectivity circuitry within the cognitive loops predicts cognitive dysfunction in CHD youth. Our study suggests a critical period of cerebellar circuitry plasticity in the adolescent period in CHD subjects that drives neurocognitive function. Further replication and validation in other pediatric CHD cohorts is warranted for future work.
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- Aurelia Sahel
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; (A.S.); (R.C.); (M.L.); (V.K.L.); (J.W.); (V.S.)
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; (A.S.); (R.C.); (M.L.); (V.K.L.); (J.W.); (V.S.)
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; (A.S.); (R.C.); (M.L.); (V.K.L.); (J.W.); (V.S.)
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; (A.S.); (R.C.); (M.L.); (V.K.L.); (J.W.); (V.S.)
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; (A.S.); (R.C.); (M.L.); (V.K.L.); (J.W.); (V.S.)
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA;
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; (A.S.); (R.C.); (M.L.); (V.K.L.); (J.W.); (V.S.)
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- Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, USA;
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; (A.S.); (R.C.); (M.L.); (V.K.L.); (J.W.); (V.S.)
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA
- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 45th Street and 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA
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Votava-Smith JK, Gaesser J, Harbison AL, Lee V, Tran N, Rajagopalan V, del Castillo S, Kumar SR, Herrup E, Baust T, Johnson JA, Gabriel GC, Reynolds WT, Wallace J, Meyers B, Ceschin R, Lo CW, Schmithorst VJ, Panigrahy A. Clinical factors associated with microstructural connectome related brain dysmaturation in term neonates with congenital heart disease. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:952355. [PMID: 36466162 PMCID: PMC9717392 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.952355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Objective Term congenital heart disease (CHD) neonates display abnormalities of brain structure and maturation, which are possibly related to underlying patient factors, abnormal physiology and perioperative insults. Our primary goal was to delineate associations between clinical factors and postnatal brain microstructure in term CHD neonates using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) magnetic resonance (MR) acquisition combined with complementary data-driven connectome and seed-based tractography quantitative analyses. Our secondary goal was to delineate associations between mild dysplastic structural brain abnormalities and connectome and seed-base tractography quantitative analyses. These mild dysplastic structural abnormalities have been derived from prior human infant CHD MR studies and neonatal mouse models of CHD that were collectively used to calculate to calculate a brain dysplasia score (BDS) that included assessment of subcortical structures including the olfactory bulb, the cerebellum and the hippocampus. Methods Neonates undergoing cardiac surgery for CHD were prospectively recruited from two large centers. Both pre- and postoperative MR brain scans were obtained. DTI in 42 directions was segmented into 90 regions using a neonatal brain template and three weighted methods. Clinical data collection included 18 patient-specific and 9 preoperative variables associated with preoperative scan and 6 intraoperative (e.g., cardiopulmonary bypass and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest times) and 12 postoperative variables associated with postoperative scan. We compared patient specific and preoperative clinical factors to network topology and tractography alterations on a preoperative neonatal brain MRI, and intra and postoperative clinical factors to network topology alterations on postoperative neonatal brain MRI. A composite BDS was created to score abnormal findings involving the cerebellar hemispheres and vermis, supratentorial extra-axial fluid, olfactory bulbs and sulci, hippocampus, choroid plexus, corpus callosum, and brainstem. The neuroimaging outcomes of this study included (1) connectome metrics: cost (number of connections) and global/nodal efficiency (network integration); (2) seed based tractography methods of fractional anisotropy (FA), radial diffusivity, and axial diffusivity. Statistics consisted of multiple regression with false discovery rate correction (FDR) comparing the clinical risk factors and BDS (including subcortical components) as predictors/exposures and the global connectome metrics, nodal efficiency, and seed based- tractography (FA, radial diffusivity, and axial diffusivity) as neuroimaging outcome measures. Results A total of 133 term neonates with complex CHD were prospectively enrolled and 110 had analyzable DTI. Multiple patient-specific factors including d-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) physiology and severity of impairment of fetal cerebral substrate delivery (i.e., how much the CHD lesion alters typical fetal circulation such that the highest oxygen and nutrient rich blood from the placenta are not directed toward the fetal brain) were predictive of preoperative reduced cost (p < 0.0073) and reduced global/nodal efficiency (p < 0.03). Cardiopulmonary bypass time predicted postoperative reduced cost (p < 0.04) and multiple postoperative factors [extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), seizures and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)] were predictive of postoperative reduced cost and reduced global/nodal efficiency (p < 0.05). Anthropometric measurements (weight, length, and head size) predicted tractography outcomes. Total BDS was not predictive of brain network topology. However, key subcortical components of the BDS score did predict key global and nodal network topology: abnormalities of the cerebellum predicted reduced cost (p < 0.0417) and of the hippocampus predicted reduced global efficiency (p < 0.0126). All three subcortical structures predicted unique alterations of nodal efficiency (p < 0.05), including hippocampal abnormalities predicting widespread reduced nodal efficiency in all lobes of the brain, cerebellar abnormalities predicting increased prefrontal nodal efficiency, and olfactory bulb abnormalities predicting posterior parietal-occipital nodal efficiency. Conclusion Patient-specific (d-TGA anatomy, preoperative impairment of fetal cerebral substrate delivery) and postoperative (e.g., seizures, need for ECMO, or CPR) clinical factors were most predictive of diffuse postnatal microstructural dysmaturation in term CHD neonates. Anthropometric measurements (weight, length, and head size) predicted tractography outcomes. In contrast, subcortical components (cerebellum, hippocampus, olfactory) of a structurally based BDS (derived from CHD mouse mutants), predicted more localized and regional postnatal microstructural differences. Collectively, these findings suggest that brain DTI connectome and seed-based tractography are complementary techniques which may facilitate deciphering the mechanistic relative contribution of clinical and genetic risk factors related to poor neurodevelopmental outcomes in CHD.
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- Jodie K. Votava-Smith
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States,Department of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Fetal and Neonatal Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Anesthesiology, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Department of Critical Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, Department of Critical Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States,Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States,Department of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States,Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States,*Correspondence: Ashok Panigrahy,
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Reduced Cerebellar Volume in Term Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Correlation with Postnatal Growth Measurements. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:diagnostics12071644. [PMID: 35885549 PMCID: PMC9321214 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12071644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Aberrant cerebellar development and the associated neurocognitive deficits has been postulated in infants with congenital heart disease (CHD). Our objective is to investigate the effect of postnatal head and somatic growth on cerebellar development in neonates with CHD. We compared term-born neonates with a history of CHD with a cohort of preterm-born neonates, two cohorts at similar risk for neurodevelopment impairment, in order to determine if they are similarly affected in the early developmental period. Study Design: 51 preterms-born healthy neonates, 62 term-born CHD neonates, and 54 term-born healthy neonates underwent a brain MRI with volumetric imaging. Cerebellar volumes were extracted through an automated segmentation pipeline that was developed in-house. Volumes were correlated with clinical growth parameters at both the birth and time of MRI. Results: The CHD cohort showed significantly lower cerebellar volumes when compared with both the control (p < 0.015) and preterm (p < 0.004) groups. Change in weight from birth to time of MRI showed a moderately strong correlation with cerebellar volume at time of MRI (r = 0.437, p < 0.002) in the preterms, but not in the CHD neonates (r = 0.205, p < 0.116). Changes in birth length and head circumference showed no significant correlation with cerebellar volume at time of MRI in either cohort. Conclusions: Cerebellar development in premature-born infants is associated with change in birth weight in the early post-natal period. This association is not observed in term-born neonates with CHD, suggesting differential mechanisms of aberrant cerebellar development in these perinatal at-risk populations.
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Gumus M, Oommen KC, Squires JH. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the neonatal brain. Pediatr Radiol 2022; 52:837-846. [PMID: 34333692 DOI: 10.1007/s00247-021-05157-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 06/03/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Cranial US is an integral component of evaluating the neonatal brain, especially in the setting of critically ill infants and in the emergency setting, because cranial US can be performed portably at the bedside, is safe, and can be repeated whenever needed. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) involves intravenously injecting microbubbles to allow for improved visibility of large and small vessels to assess vascularity and is becoming a widespread technique to improve diagnostic performance of US across a broad spectrum of applications. CEUS has the potential to add value to routine brain US and become a useful adjunct to MRI in infants in need of bedside imaging. In this review we describe the basics of US contrast agents and CEUS technique, including safety considerations, and detail the potential clinical uses of brain CEUS.
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- Memduha Gumus
- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- Department of Pediatric Radiology, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2nd Floor Radiology, 4401 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15224, USA.
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Van der Veeken L, Russo FM, Litwinska E, Gomez O, Emam D, Lewi L, Basurto D, Van der Veeken S, De Catte L, Gratacos E, Eixarch E, Nicolaides K, Deprest J. Prenatal cerebellar growth is altered in congenital diaphragmatic hernia on ultrasound. Prenat Diagn 2021; 42:330-337. [PMID: 34216508 DOI: 10.1002/pd.5993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Revised: 05/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) are at risk for neurodevelopmental delay. Herein we report on prenatal changes in biometry and brain perfusion in fetuses with isolated CDH. STUDY DESIGN This retrospective study evaluated fetuses with isolated, left-sided CDH in three European referral centers. Abdominal circumference (AC), femur length (FL), head circumference (HC), transcerebellar diameter (TCD), middle cerebral artery (MCA) Doppler, and ventricular width (VW) were assessed during four gestational periods (<24 weeks, 25-28 weeks, 29-32 weeks, >33 weeks). Z-scores were calculated, and growth curves were created based on longitudinal data. RESULTS In 367 fetuses, HC, AC and FL were within normal ranges throughout gestation. The TCD diminished with advancing gestational age to fall below the fifth percentile after 32 weeks. A less pronounced but similar trend was seen in VW. The peak systolic velocity of the MCA was consistently approximately 10% lower than normal. Disease severity was correlated to TCD (p = 0.002) and MCA doppler values (p = 0.002). There were no differences between fetuses treated with FETO and those managed expectantly. CONCLUSION Fetuses with isolated left-sided CDH have a small cerebellum and reduced MCA peak systolic velocity. Follow up studies are necessary to determine the impact of these changes on neurodevelopment.
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- Lennart Van der Veeken
- Department of Development and Regeneration, Cluster Woman and Child, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Clinical Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Development and Regeneration, Cluster Woman and Child, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Clinical Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Harris Birthright Research Center for Fetal Medicine, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Fetal i+D Fetal Medicine Research Center, BCNatal - Barcelona Center for Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (Hospital Clínic and Hospital Sant Joan de Deu), Institut Clínic de Ginecologia, Obstetricia i Neonatologia, Barcelona, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Centre for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBER-ER), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Development and Regeneration, Cluster Woman and Child, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Tanta, Tanta, Egypt
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- Department of Development and Regeneration, Cluster Woman and Child, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Clinical Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Development and Regeneration, Cluster Woman and Child, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Development and Regeneration, Cluster Woman and Child, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Clinical Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Fetal i+D Fetal Medicine Research Center, BCNatal - Barcelona Center for Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (Hospital Clínic and Hospital Sant Joan de Deu), Institut Clínic de Ginecologia, Obstetricia i Neonatologia, Barcelona, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Centre for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBER-ER), Barcelona, Spain
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- Fetal i+D Fetal Medicine Research Center, BCNatal - Barcelona Center for Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (Hospital Clínic and Hospital Sant Joan de Deu), Institut Clínic de Ginecologia, Obstetricia i Neonatologia, Barcelona, Spain.,Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Centre for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBER-ER), Barcelona, Spain
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- Harris Birthright Research Center for Fetal Medicine, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Development and Regeneration, Cluster Woman and Child, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Clinical Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Institute for Women's Health, University College London, London, UK
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Motile cilia are highly complex hair-like organelles of epithelial cells lining the surface of various organ systems. Genetic mutations (usually with autosomal recessive inheritance) that impair ciliary beating cause a variety of motile ciliopathies, a heterogeneous group of rare disorders. The pathogenetic mechanisms, clinical symptoms and severity of the disease depend on the specific affected genes and the tissues in which they are expressed. Defects in the ependymal cilia can result in hydrocephalus, defects in the cilia in the fallopian tubes or in sperm flagella can cause female and male subfertility, respectively, and malfunctional motile monocilia of the left-right organizer during early embryonic development can lead to laterality defects such as situs inversus and heterotaxy. If mucociliary clearance in the respiratory epithelium is severely impaired, the disorder is referred to as primary ciliary dyskinesia, the most common motile ciliopathy. No single test can confirm a diagnosis of motile ciliopathy, which is based on a combination of tests including nasal nitric oxide measurement, transmission electron microscopy, immunofluorescence and genetic analyses, and high-speed video microscopy. With the exception of azithromycin, there is no evidence-based treatment for primary ciliary dyskinesia; therapies aim at relieving symptoms and reducing the effects of reduced ciliary motility.
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Heterotaxy is a generalized term for patients who have an abnormality of laterality that cannot be described as situs inversus. Infants with heterotaxy can have significant anatomic and medical complexity and require personalized, specialized care, including comprehensive anatomic assessment. Common and rare anatomic findings are reviewed by system to help guide a thorough phenotypic evaluation. General care guidelines and considerations unique to this patient population are included. Future directions for this unique patient population, particularly in light of improved neonatal survival, are discussed.
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- Gabrielle C Geddes
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA; Herma Heart Institute, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, 9000 West Wisconsin Avenue, MS#716, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
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- Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA; Herma Heart Institute, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, 9000 West Wisconsin Avenue, MS#716, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA; Section of Adult Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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Pierpont ME, Brueckner M, Chung WK, Garg V, Lacro RV, McGuire AL, Mital S, Priest JR, Pu WT, Roberts A, Ware SM, Gelb BD, Russell MW. Genetic Basis for Congenital Heart Disease: Revisited: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation 2019; 138:e653-e711. [PMID: 30571578 DOI: 10.1161/cir.0000000000000606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 328] [Impact Index Per Article: 65.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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This review provides an updated summary of the state of our knowledge of the genetic contributions to the pathogenesis of congenital heart disease. Since 2007, when the initial American Heart Association scientific statement on the genetic basis of congenital heart disease was published, new genomic techniques have become widely available that have dramatically changed our understanding of the causes of congenital heart disease and, clinically, have allowed more accurate definition of the pathogeneses of congenital heart disease in patients of all ages and even prenatally. Information is presented on new molecular testing techniques and their application to congenital heart disease, both isolated and associated with other congenital anomalies or syndromes. Recent advances in the understanding of copy number variants, syndromes, RASopathies, and heterotaxy/ciliopathies are provided. Insights into new research with congenital heart disease models, including genetically manipulated animals such as mice, chicks, and zebrafish, as well as human induced pluripotent stem cell-based approaches are provided to allow an understanding of how future research breakthroughs for congenital heart disease are likely to happen. It is anticipated that this review will provide a large range of health care-related personnel, including pediatric cardiologists, pediatricians, adult cardiologists, thoracic surgeons, obstetricians, geneticists, genetic counselors, and other related clinicians, timely information on the genetic aspects of congenital heart disease. The objective is to provide a comprehensive basis for interdisciplinary care for those with congenital heart disease.
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Long S, Zhou H, Li S, Wang T, Ma Y, Li C, Zhou Y, Zhou S, Wu B, Wang Y. The Clinical and Genetic Features of Co-occurring Epilepsy and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Chinese Children. Front Neurol 2019; 10:505. [PMID: 31139143 PMCID: PMC6527735 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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There is still no comprehensive description of the general population regarding clinical features and genetic etiology for co-occurring epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Chinese children. This study was a retrospective study of children diagnosed with epilepsy and ASD from January 1st, 2015, to May 1st, 2018, at the Children's Hospital of Fudan University. A total of 117 patients met the inclusion criteria, and 103 subjects were eligible. Among them, 88 underwent genetic testing, and 47 children (53.4%) were identified as having pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants: 39 had single gene mutations (83.0%, 39/47), and eight had copy number variants (17.0%, 8/47), with SCN1A (14.9%, 7/47) and MECP2 (10.6%, 5/47) gene mutations being the most common. Mutations in other genes encoding voltage-gated ion channels including SCN2A, CACNA1A, CACNA1H, CACNA1D, and KCNQ2 were also common, but the number of individual cases for each gene was small. Epilepsy syndrome and epilepsy-associated syndrome were more common (P = 0.014), and higher rates of poly-therapy (P = 0.01) were used in the positive genetic test group than in the negative group. There were no statistically significant differences in drug-refractory epilepsy, ASD severity, or intellectual disability between the positive genetic test group and the negative genetic group. These data strongly indicate the need for ASD screening in children with epilepsy with voltage-gated ion channel gene variants for better diagnosis and early intervention.
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- Shasha Long
- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Neurology, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, Medical College of Guizhou University, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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This chapter focuses on the development of the human olfactory system. In this system, function does not require full neuroanatomical maturity. Thus, discrimination of odorous molecules, including a number within the mother's diet, occurs in amniotic fluid after 28-30 weeks of gestation, at which time the olfactory bulbs are identifiable by MRI. Hypoplasia/aplasia of the bulbs is documented in the third trimester and postnatally. Interestingly, olfactory axons project from the nasal epithelium to the telencephalon before formation of the olfactory bulbs and lack a peripheral ganglion, but the synaptic glomeruli of the future olfactory bulb serves this function. Histologic lamination of the olfactory bulb is present by 14 weeks, but maturation remains incomplete at term for neuronal differentiation, synaptogenesis, myelination, and persistence of the normal transitory fetal ventricular recess. Myelination occurs postnatally. Although olfaction is the only sensory system without direct thalamic projections, the olfactory bulb and anterior olfactory nucleus are, in effect, thalamic surrogates. For example, many dendro-dendritic synapses occur within the bulb between GABAergic granular neurons and periglomerular neurons. Moreover, bulbar synaptic glomeruli are analogous to peripheral ganglia of other sensory cranial nerves. The olfactory tract contains much gray as well as white matter. The olfactory epithelium and bulb both incorporate progenitor cells at all ages. Diverse malformations of the olfactory bulb can be detected by clinical examination, imaging, and neuropathology; indeed, olfactory reflexes of the neonate can be reliably tested. We recommend that such testing be routine in the neonatal neurologic examination, especially in children with brain malformations, endocrinopathies, chromosomopathies, genetic/metabolic disorders, and perinatal hypoxic/ischemic encephalopathy.
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- Harvey B Sarnat
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, AB, Canada; Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, AB, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Neuropathology), University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, AB, Canada.
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- Department of Paediatrics, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, AB, Canada; Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Liamlahi R, Latal B. Neurodevelopmental outcome of children with congenital heart disease. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2019; 162:329-345. [PMID: 31324319 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-64029-1.00016-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Congenital heart disease (CHD) constitutes the most common congenital malformation, with moderate or severe CHD occurring in around 6 in 1000 live births. Due to advances in medical care, survival rates have increased significantly. Thus, the majority of children with CHD survive until adolescence and adulthood. Children with CHD requiring cardiopulmonary bypass surgery are at risk for neurodevelopmental impairments in various domains, including mild impairments in cognitive and neuromotor functions, difficulties with social interaction, inattention, emotional symptoms, and impaired executive function. The prevalence for these impairments ranges from 20% to 60% depending on age and domain ("high prevalence-low severity"). Domains are often affected simultaneously, leading to school problems with the need for learning support and special interventions. The etiology of neurodevelopmental impairments is complex, consisting of a combination of delayed intrauterine brain development and newly occurring perioperative brain injuries. Mechanisms include altered intrauterine hemodynamic flow as well as neonatal hypoxia and reduced cerebral blood flow. The surgical procedure and postoperative phase add to this cascade of factors interfering with normal brain development. Early identification of children at high risk through structured follow-up programs is mandated to provide individually tailored early interventions and counseling to improve developmental health.
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- Rabia Liamlahi
- Child Development Center, University Children's Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Child Development Center, University Children's Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Rajagopalan V, Votava-Smith JK, Zhuang X, Brian J, Marshall L, Panigrahy A, Paquette L. Fetuses with single ventricle congenital heart disease manifest impairment of regional brain growth. Prenat Diagn 2018; 38:1042-1048. [PMID: 30328635 DOI: 10.1002/pd.5374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Revised: 10/02/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Anomalous neurological development associated with congenital heart disease (CHD) has been reported as early as third trimester of fetal development. While several studies have characterized variations in CHD neurodevelopmental outcomes in early childhood, these reports are often confounded by postnatal factors such as surgical outcome. Recent studies have focused on the comparing neurological variations between fetuses with CHD and normal controls. In this work, we present a comparison of in utero variations in brain development between fetuses with different types of CHD, by analyzing them under categories of single ventricle versus biventricular cardiac anatomy. METHODS Using recent advances in fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we quantify the volumetric trajectories of various brain tissues (such as cortical plate, developing white matter, cerebrospinal fluid [CSF], and cerebellum). RESULTS Our study is the first to differentiate between intraventricular and extra-axial CSF thereby allowing us to better identify variations in brain composition of the fetuses. CONCLUSIONS Overall, our findings show that while total brain volume is similar between fetuses with single and biventricular anatomy, they exhibit statistically significant disparity in brain composition.
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- Vidya Rajagopalan
- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.,Rudi Schulte Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.,Keck University School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children's Hospital Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.,University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Keck University School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.,Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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Bush A, Hogg C. The answer is cilia, whatever the question may be! ANNALS OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 2018; 6:S32. [PMID: 30613607 DOI: 10.21037/atm.2018.09.39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Andrew Bush
- Head of Section (Paediatrics), Imperial College, London, UK.,National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK.,Departments of Paediatrics and Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, NHLI at Imperial College, London, UK
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- Departments of Paediatrics and Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, NHLI at Imperial College, London, UK.,National PCD Diagnostic Service, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
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Gertsvolf N, Votava-Smith JK, Ceschin R, Del Castillo S, Lee V, Lai HA, Bluml S, Paquette L, Panigrahy A. Association between Subcortical Morphology and Cerebral White Matter Energy Metabolism in Neonates with Congenital Heart Disease. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14057. [PMID: 30232359 PMCID: PMC6145929 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32288-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 09/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Complex congenital heart disease (CHD) is associated with neurodevelopmental impairment, the mechanism of which is unknown. Cerebral cortical dysmaturation in CHD is linked to white matter abnormalities, including developmental vulnerability of the subplate, in relation to oxygen delivery and metabolism deficits. In this study, we report associations between subcortical morphology and white matter metabolism in neonates with CHD using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS). Multi-modal brain imaging was performed in three groups of neonates close to term-equivalent age: (1) term CHD (n = 56); (2) preterm CHD (n = 37) and (3) preterm control group (n = 22). Thalamic volume and cerebellar transverse diameter were obtained in relation to cerebral metrics and white matter metabolism. Short echo single-voxel MRS of parietal and frontal white matter was used to quantitate metabolites related to brain maturation (n-acetyl aspartate [NAA], choline, myo-inositol), neurotransmitter (glutamate), and energy metabolism (glutamine, citrate, creatine and lactate). Multi-variate regression was performed to delineate associations between subcortical morphological measurements and white matter metabolism controlling for age and white matter injury. Reduced thalamic volume, most pronounced in the preterm control group, was associated with increased citrate levels in all three group in the parietal white matter. In contrast, reduced cerebellar volume, most pronounced in the preterm CHD group, was associated with reduced glutamine in parietal grey matter in both CHD groups. Single ventricle anatomy, aortic arch obstruction, and cyanotic lesion were predictive of the relationship between reduced subcortical morphometry and reduced GLX (particularly glutamine) in both CHD cohorts (frontal white matter and parietal grey matter). Subcortical morphological associations with brain metabolism were also distinct within each of the three groups, suggesting these relationships in the CHD groups were not directly related to prematurity or white matter injury alone. Taken together, these findings suggest that subplate vulnerability in CHD is likely relevant to understanding the mechanism of both cortical and subcortical dysmaturation in CHD infants. Future work is needed to link this potential pattern of encephalopathy of CHD (including the constellation of grey matter, white matter and brain metabolism deficits) to not only abnormal fetal substrate delivery and oxygen conformance, but also regional deficits in cerebral energy metabolism.
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- Nina Gertsvolf
- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA.
- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Ceschin R, Zahner A, Reynolds W, Gaesser J, Zuccoli G, Lo CW, Gopalakrishnan V, Panigrahy A. A computational framework for the detection of subcortical brain dysmaturation in neonatal MRI using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks. Neuroimage 2018; 178:183-197. [PMID: 29793060 PMCID: PMC6503677 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2018] [Revised: 05/04/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in both supervised learning for classification tasks and unsupervised learning to derive complex patterns from the input data. However, the successful implementation of deep neural networks using neuroimaging datasets requires adequate sample size for training and well-defined signal intensity based structural differentiation. There is a lack of effective automated diagnostic tools for the reliable detection of brain dysmaturation in the neonatal period, related to small sample size and complex undifferentiated brain structures, despite both translational research and clinical importance. Volumetric information alone is insufficient for diagnosis. In this study, we developed a computational framework for the automated classification of brain dysmaturation from neonatal MRI, by combining a specific deep neural network implementation with neonatal structural brain segmentation as a method for both clinical pattern recognition and data-driven inference into the underlying structural morphology. We implemented three-dimensional convolution neural networks (3D-CNNs) to specifically classify dysplastic cerebelli, a subset of surface-based subcortical brain dysmaturation, in term infants born with congenital heart disease. We obtained a 0.985 ± 0. 0241-classification accuracy of subtle cerebellar dysplasia in CHD using 10-fold cross-validation. Furthermore, the hidden layer activations and class activation maps depicted regional vulnerability of the superior surface of the cerebellum, (composed of mostly the posterior lobe and the midline vermis), in regards to differentiating the dysplastic process from normal tissue. The posterior lobe and the midline vermis provide regional differentiation that is relevant to not only to the clinical diagnosis of cerebellar dysplasia, but also genetic mechanisms and neurodevelopmental outcome correlates. These findings not only contribute to the detection and classification of a subset of neonatal brain dysmaturation, but also provide insight to the pathogenesis of cerebellar dysplasia in CHD. In addition, this is one of the first examples of the application of deep learning to a neuroimaging dataset, in which the hidden layer activation revealed diagnostically and biologically relevant features about the clinical pathogenesis. The code developed for this project is open source, published under the BSD License, and designed to be generalizable to applications both within and beyond neonatal brain imaging.
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- Rafael Ceschin
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Kempeneers C, Chilvers MA. To beat, or not to beat, that is question! The spectrum of ciliopathies. Pediatr Pulmonol 2018; 53:1122-1129. [PMID: 29938933 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.24078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2018] [Accepted: 05/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Cilia are widely distributed throughout the human body, and have numerous roles in physiology, development, and disease. Ciliary ultrastructure is complex, consisting of nine parallel microtubules doublets, with or without motor dynein arms and a central pair of microtubules. Classification of cilia has evolved over time, and currently, four main classes are described: motile and non-motile cilia with a "9 + 2" structure, and motile and non-motile cilia with a "9 + 0" structure, which depend on the presence or absence of dynein arms and a central pair. Ciliopathies are inherited multisystem disorders of cilia, and may present with a varied spectrum of genotypes and phenotypes. Motor and sensory ciliopathies were historically considered as distinct dysfunctions of motile and non-motile cilia, but recent data indicate that the classical features of motor and sensory cilia may overlap.
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- Céline Kempeneers
- Pediatric Respirology, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Division of Respirology, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia and British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Chronic Blockade of Brain Endothelin Receptor Type-A (ET A) Reduces Blood Pressure and Prevents Catecholaminergic Overactivity in the Right Olfactory Bulb of DOCA-Salt Hypertensive Rats. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19030660. [PMID: 29495426 PMCID: PMC5877521 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19030660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Revised: 02/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system and central endothelins (ETs) are involved in the development of hypertension. Besides the well-known brain structures involved in the regulation of blood pressure like the hypothalamus or locus coeruleus, evidence suggests that the olfactory bulb (OB) also modulates cardiovascular function. In the present study, we evaluated the interaction between the endothelinergic and catecholaminergic systems in the OB of deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive rats. Following brain ET receptor type A (ETA) blockade by BQ610 (selective antagonist), transcriptional, traductional, and post-traductional changes in tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) were assessed in the OB of normotensive and DOCA-salt hypertensive rats. Time course variations in systolic blood pressure and heart rate were also registered. Results showed that ETA blockade dose dependently reduced blood pressure in hypertensive rats, but it did not change heart rate. It also prevented the increase in TH activity and expression (mRNA and protein) in the right OB of hypertensive animals. However, ETA blockade did not affect hemodynamics or TH in normotensive animals. Present results support that brain ETA are not involved in blood pressure regulation in normal rats, but they significantly contribute to chronic blood pressure elevation in hypertensive animals. Changes in TH activity and expression were observed in the right but not in the left OB, supporting functional asymmetry, in line with previous studies regarding cardiovascular regulation. Present findings provide further evidence on the role of ETs in the regulation of catecholaminergic activity and the contribution of the right OB to DOCA-salt hypertension.
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Trakas E, Domnina Y, Panigrahy A, Baust T, Callahan PM, Morell VO, Munoz R, Bell MJ, Sanchez-de-Toledo J. Serum Neuronal Biomarkers in Neonates With Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Cardiac Surgery. Pediatr Neurol 2017; 72:56-61. [PMID: 28571730 DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2017.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2016] [Revised: 04/09/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Newborns with congenital heart disease have associated brain damage that affects short-and long-term neurodevelopment. Several neuronal biomarkers exist that could predict brain damage. We investigated the pattern of neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and s100B levels after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery in neonates with congenital heart disease. METHODS We completed a prospective observational study of neonates with congenital heart disease who were undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. NSE and s100B levels were measured from serum samples obtained preoperatively, immediately postoperatively, and once daily on postoperative days one to seven. Cranial ultrasounds were obtained preoperatively and postoperatively and findings were scored using an internally developed scoring system. RESULTS Eighteen neonates were included. Immediate postoperative and peak levels of both NSE (58.0 [21.6] and 68.1 [55.7] μg/L) and s100B (0.14 [0.3] and 0.14 [0.3] μg/L) were significantly increased when compared with preoperative levels (34.0 [21.6] μg/L; P < 0.01 and 0.08 [0.1] μg/L; P < 0.02). By postoperative day seven, NSE and s100B levels were lower than preoperative levels: NSE (18 [5.7]; P = 0.09) and s100B (0.03 [0.05]; P < 0.01). Postoperative s100B levels were negatively correlated with age at surgery and positively correlated with circulatory arrest time. Although there was no significant correlation between either NSE or s100B levels and intensive care unit length of stay, hospital length of stay, and pediatric cerebral performance category score, there was a negative correlation between postoperative levels of NSE and ventriculomegaly. CONCLUSIONS NSE and s100B levels increase after bypass surgery and return below preoperative baseline levels by postoperative day seven. The levels of s100B were positively correlated with circulatory arrest time and negatively correlated with age at time of surgery. This finding may be supportive of pre-existing prenatal brain injury that could be enhanced by longer surgical times but also of some brain protection effect associated with longer wait until surgery.
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- Erin Trakas
- Division of Cardiac Intensive Care, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Golisano Children's Hospital, Rochester, New York
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- Division of Cardiac Intensive Care, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Cardiac Intensive Care, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Cardiac Intensive Care, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Cardiac Intensive Care, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
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Amirav I, Goez H. Brain dysplasia and ciliary dysfunction. J Pediatr 2017; 185:253. [PMID: 28279434 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.02.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Department of Pediatrics University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada
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Sarnat HB, Flores-Sarnat L, Wei XC. Olfactory Development, Part 1: Function, From Fetal Perception to Adult Wine-Tasting. J Child Neurol 2017; 32:566-578. [PMID: 28424010 DOI: 10.1177/0883073817690867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Discrimination of odorous molecules in amniotic fluid occur after 30 weeks' gestation; fetuses exhibit differential responses to maternal diet. Olfactory reflexes enable reliable neonatal testing. Olfactory bulbs can be demonstrated reliably by MRI after 30 weeks' gestation, and their hypoplasia or aplasia also documented by late prenatal and postnatal MRI. Olfactory axons project from nasal epithelium to telencephalon before olfactory bulbs form. Fetal olfactory maturation remains incomplete at term for neuronal differentiation, synaptogenesis, myelination, and persistence of the transitory fetal ventricular recess. Immaturity does not signify nonfunction. Olfaction is the only sensory system without thalamic projection because of its own intrinsic thalamic equivalent. Diverse malformations of the olfactory bulb can be diagnosed by clinical examination, imaging, and neuropathology. Some epileptic auras might be primarily generated in the olfactory bulb. Cranial nerve 1 should be tested in all neonates and especially in patients with brain malformations, endocrinopathies, chromosomopathies, and genetic/metabolic diseases.
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- Harvey B Sarnat
- 1 Department of Paediatrics, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,2 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,3 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Neuropathology), University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,5 Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- 1 Department of Paediatrics, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,2 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,3 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Neuropathology), University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,5 Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- 4 Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,5 Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Li YJ, Yang YQ. An update on the molecular diagnosis of congenital heart disease: focus on loss-of-function mutations. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2017; 17:393-401. [PMID: 28274167 DOI: 10.1080/14737159.2017.1300062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Yan-Jie Li
- Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, and Central Laboratory, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, and Central Laboratory, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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