Preservation of Cerebellar Afferent Pathway May Be Related to Good Hand Function in Patients with Stroke.

ABSTRACT: Many chronic stroke patients suffer from worsened hand function, and functional recovery of the hand does not occur well after six months of stroke. Therefore, predicting final hand function after stroke through acute phase imaging would be an important issue in counseling with the patients or their family. Thus, we investigated the remaining white matter integrity in the corticospinal tract (CST) and cortico-ponto-cerebellar tract (CPCT) at the acute stage of stroke and chronic hand function after stroke, and present the cut-off value of fiber number (FN) and fractional anisotropy (FA) of CST and CPCT at the acute stage for predicting final hand function after the recovery period. This retrospective case-control study included 18 stroke patients who were classified into two groups: poor h

SUBMITTER: Shin BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9318318 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature