Multiparametric MRI changes persist beyond recovery in concussed adolescent hockey players.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether multiparametric MRI data can provide insight into the acute and long-lasting neuronal sequelae after a concussion in adolescent athletes.

Methods

Players were recruited from Bantam hockey leagues in which body checking is first introduced (male, age 11-14 years). Clinical measures, diffusion metrics, resting-state network and region-to-region functional connectivity patterns, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy absolute metabolite concentrations were analyzed from an independent, age-matched control group of hockey players (n = 26) and longitudinally in concussed athletes within 24 to 72 hours (n = 17) and 3 months (n = 14) after a diagnosed concussion.

Results

There were diffusion abnormalities within multiple white matter tracts, funct

SUBMITTER: Manning KY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5696642 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature