Comparing prognostic strength of acute corticospinal tract injury measured by a new diffusion tensor imaging based template approach versus common approaches.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term motor outcome of acute stroke patients with severe motor impairment is difficult to predict. While measure of corticospinal tract (CST) injury based on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in subacute stroke patients strongly predicts motor outcome, its predictive value in acute stroke patients is unclear. Using a new DTI-based, density-weighted CST template approach, we demonstrated recently that CST injury measured in acute stroke patients with moderately-severe to severe motor impairment of the upper limb strongly predicts motor outcome of the limb at 6 months.

New method

The current study compared the prognostic strength of CST injury measured in 10 acute stroke patients with moderately-severe to severe motor impairment of the upper limb by the new density

SUBMITTER: Hirai KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4666681 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature