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ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Cerebral White Matter Connectivity in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.

David C Noriega-Gonzalez, Jesús Crespo, Francisco Ardura, Juan Calabia-Del Campo, Carlos Alberola-Lopez, Rodrigo de Luis-García, Alberto Caballero-García, Alfredo Córdova

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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David C Noriega-GonzalezDepartment of Surgery, Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain.
Jesús CrespoTraumatology and Orthopaedics Department, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain.
Francisco ArduraTraumatology and Orthopaedics Department, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain.
Juan Calabia-Del CampoDepartment of Radiology Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain.
Carlos Alberola-LopezETSI Telecomunicación, Image Processing Laboratory. University of Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3684-0055
Rodrigo de Luis-GarcíaETSI Telecomunicación, Image Processing Laboratory. University of Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain.
Alberto Caballero-GarcíaDepartment of Anatomy and Radiology, Health Sciences Faculty, GIR: "Physical Exercise and Aging", University of Valladolid, Campus Universitario "Los Pajaritos", 42004 Soria, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9131-0615
Alfredo CórdovaDepartment of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Physiology, Health Sciences Faculty, GIR: "Physical Exercise and Aging", University of Valladolid, Campus Universitario "Los Pajaritos", 42004 Soria, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is characterized by the radiographic presence of a frontal plane curve, with a magnitude greater than 10° (Cobb technique). Diffusion MRI can be employed to assess the cerebral white matter. The aim of this study was to analyze, by means of MRI, the presence of any alteration in the connectivity of cerebral white matter in AIS patients. In this study, 22 patients with AIS participated. The imaging protocol consisted in T1 and diffusion-weighted acquisitions. Based on the information from one of the diffusion acquisitions, a whole brain tractography was performed with the MRtrix tool. Tractography is a method to deduce the trajectory of fiber bundles through the white matter based on the diffusion MRI data. By combining cortical segmentation with tractography, a connectivity matrix of size 84 × 84 was constructed using FA (fractional anisotropy), and the number of streamlines as connectomics metrics. The results obtained support the hypothesis that alterations in cerebral white matter connectivity in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) exist. We consider that the application of diffusion MRI, together with transcranial magnetic stimulation neurophysiologically, is useful to search the etiology of AIS.

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adolescent idiopathic scoliosisAISconnectomics techniquesfractional anisotropymagnetic resonance imagingMRIMRtrixtractography

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PMCPMC9320696

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