Diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging in patients with consequences of obstetric brachial plexus palsy

Author:

Khodorovskaya Alina M.1ORCID,Efimtsev Aleksandr Yu.2ORCID,Agronovich Olga E.1ORCID,Savina Margarita V.1ORCID,Zorin Vyacheslav I.1ORCID,Braylov Sergey A.1ORCID,Arakelian Anastasiia I.1ORCID,Lukyanov Sergey A.1ORCID,Grishchenkov Aleksandr S.23ORCID,Filin Yana A.2ORCID,Vcherashniy Daniil B.4ORCID,Morozova Viktoria V.1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Сhildren’s Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery

2. Almazov National Medical Research Centre

3. Sokolov’ North-Western Regional Scientific and Clinical Center

4. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging allows visualizing the conductive pathways of the brain and spinal cord and assessing their structure and integrity and has found wide application in practical medicine. Currently, brachial plexus diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging is not a routine research technique, and very few studies have described its use in children and adolescents. AIM: This study aimed to evaluate the possibility of brachial plexus diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging application in pediatric patients with obstetric brachial plexus palsy sequelae and identify correlations between the diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging parameters of brachial plexus and parameters of electrophysiological study of the upper extremities in these patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A complex examination of 50 patients was performed. The main group included 30 patients aged 6–17 years, with contractures and secondary deformities of the bones of the shoulder girdle and upper limbs caused by unilateral obstetric brachial plexus palsy. The control group included 20 patients aged 7–17 (10.1 ± 2.1) years without clinical signs, and anamnestic data indicated the presence of damage to the brachial plexus and peripheral nerves of the upper limbs. RESULTS: No significant differences in diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging parameters of the right and left brachial plexus were found in the control group. Significant differences in fractional anisotropy of the C5–C8 tracts on the side of the damaged brachial plexus were detected compared with those on the side of the undamaged brachial plexus. On the side of the injured brachial plexus, nonlinear correlations were found between the fractional anisotropy of the tracts of the spinal nerve and its branches and the amplitude of sensory responses from the sensory nerve, which originated from the anterior branches of this spinal nerve, and between the volume of the branches of the tracts of the spinal nerve and the amplitude of соmpound motor responses from the muscles, which were innervated by the anterior branches of this spinal nerve. CONCLUSIONS: Diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging allows for the evaluation of the structural changes in the SNs that participate in the formation of the brachial plexus. The results can be used for further studies of diffusion-tensor magnetic resonance imaging of brachial plexuses in various pathologies in pediatric patients.

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ECO-Vector LLC

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