title: Long term motor function after neonatal stroke: Lesion localization above all.
abstract: Motor outcome is variable following neonatal arterial ischemic stroke (NAIS). We analyzed the relationship between lesion characteristics on brain MRI and motor function in children who had suffered from NAIS. Thirty eight full term born children with unilateral NAIS were investigated at the age of seven. 3D T1- and 3D FLAIR-weighted MR images were acquired on a 3T MRI scanner. Lesion characteristics were compared between patients with and without cerebral palsy (CP) using the following approaches: lesion localization either using a category-based analysis, lesion mapping as well as voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM). Using diffusion-weighted imaging the microstructure of the cortico-spinal tract (CST) was related to the status of CP by measuring DTI parameters. Whereas children with lesions sparing the primary motor system did not develop CP, CP was always present when extensive lesions damaged at least two brain structures involving the motor system. The VLSM approach provided a statistical map that confirmed the cortical lesions in the primary motor system and revealed that CP was highly correlated with lesions in close proximity to the CST. In children with CP, diffusion parameters indicated microstructural changes in the CST at the level of internal capsule and the centrum semiovale. White matter damage of the CST in centrum semiovale was a highly reproducible marker of CP. This is the first description of the implication of this latter region in motor impairment after NAIS. In conclusion, CP in childhood was closely linked to the location of the infarct in the motor system.
authors.affiliation: LUNAM, Université d'Angers, Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes (LARIS) - EA7315, F-49000, Angers, France.|LUNAM, CHU Angers, Université d'Angers, Département de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, F- 49933, Angers, France.
authors.forename: Mickael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dinomais
authors.affiliation: UNIACT, Neurospin, I2BM, DSV, CEA-Saclay, and INSERM U1129 Paris, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEA, F-91191, Gif sur Yvette, France.
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hertz-Pannier
authors.affiliation: Experimental Pediatric Neuroimaging, Department of Pediatric Neurology & Developmental Medicine, University Children's Hospital Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Groeschel
authors.affiliation: CHU Saint-Étienne, Centre national de référence de l'AVC de l'enfant and Inserm CIC1408, F-42055, Saint-Étienne, France.|Université de Saint-x000C9;tienne, Groupe de recherche sur la thrombose - EA3065, F-42023, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chabrier
authors.affiliation: LUNAM, CHU Angers, Université d'Angers, Département de Neurochirurgie, F-49933, Angers, France.|LUNAM, Université d'Angers, Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Faculté de Médecine F-49045, Angers, France.
authors.forename: Matthieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delion
authors.affiliation: Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, CHU Bicêtre, Service d'Imagerie Pédiatrique and Centre national de référence de l'AVC de l'enfant, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Béatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Husson
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Neurology Department and French Center for Pediatric Stroke, University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, F-75743, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Manoelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kossorotoff
authors.affiliation: CHU Saint-Étienne, Centre national de référence de l'AVC de l'enfant and Inserm CIC1408, F-42055, Saint-Étienne, France.
authors.forename: Cyrille
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Renaud
authors.affiliation: LUNAM, Université d'Angers, Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes (LARIS) - EA7315, F-49000, Angers, France.|LUNAM, CHU Angers, Université d'Angers, Département de Neuropédiatrie, F-49933, Angers, France.
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nguyen The Tich
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D011712:Pyramidal Tracts / Q000473:pathology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: brain lesion; cerebral palsy; morphometry; motor deficit; neonatal stroke