@article{ref1,
title="Diverging white matter trajectories in children after traumatic brain injury: the RAPBI study",
journal="Neurology",
year="2017",
author="Dennis, Emily L. and Rashid, Faisal and Ellis, Monica U. and Babikian, Talin and Vlasova, Roza M. and Villalon-Reina, Julio E. and Jin, Yan and Olsen, Alexander and Mink, Richard and Babbitt, Christopher J. and Johnson, Jeffrey and Giza, Christopher C. and Thompson, Paul M. and Asarnow, Robert F.",
volume="88",
number="15",
pages="1392-1399",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To examine longitudinal trajectories of white matter organization in pediatric moderate/severe traumatic brain injury (msTBI) over a 12-month period. <br><br>METHODS: We studied 21 children (16 M/5 F) with msTBI, assessed 2-5 months postinjury and again 13-19 months postinjury, as well as 20 well-matched healthy control children. We assessed corpus callosum function through interhemispheric transfer time (IHTT), measured using event-related potentials, and related this to diffusion-weighted MRI measures of white matter (WM) microstructure. At the first time point, half of the patients with TBI had significantly slower IHTT (TBI-slow-IHTT, n = 11) and half were in the normal range (TBI-normal-IHTT, n = 10). <br><br>RESULTS: The TBI-normal-IHTT group did not differ significantly from healthy controls, either in WM organization in the chronic phase or in the longitudinal trajectory of WM organization between the 2 evaluations. In contrast, the WM organization of the TBI-slow-IHTT group was significantly lower than in healthy controls across a large portion of the WM. Longitudinal analyses showed that the TBI-slow-IHTT group experienced a progressive decline between the 2 evaluations in WM organization throughout the brain. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: We present preliminary evidence suggesting a potential biomarker that identifies a subset of patients with impaired callosal organization in the first months postinjury who subsequently experience widespread continuing and progressive degeneration in the first year postinjury.<br><br>© 2017 American Academy of Neurology.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0028-3878",
doi="10.1212/WNL.0000000000003808",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000003808"
}