Assessment of Regional Functional Effects of Surgical Treatment in Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome via Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quantitative regional assessment of thoracic function would enable clinicians to better understand the regional effects of therapy and the degree of deviation from normality in patients with thoracic insufficiency syndrome (TIS). The purpose of this study was to determine the regional functional effects of surgical treatment in TIS via quantitative dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in comparison with healthy children.

Methods

Volumetric parameters were derived via 129 dynamic MRI scans from 51 normal children (November 2017 to March 2019) and 39 patients with TIS (preoperatively and postoperatively, July 2009 to May 2018) for the left and right lungs, the left and right hemi-diaphragms, and the left and right hemi-chest walls during tidal breathing. Paired

SUBMITTER: Tong Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11973546 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature