Jodie K Votava-Smith, Jenna Gaesser, Anna Lonyai Harbison, Vince Lee, Nhu Tran, Vidya Rajagopalan, Sylvia Del Castillo, S Ram Kumar, Elizabeth Herrup, Tracy Baust, Jennifer A Johnson, George C Gabriel, William T Reynolds, Julia Wallace, Benjamin Meyers, Rafael Ceschin, Cecilia W Lo, Vanessa J Schmithorst, Ashok Panigrahy
OBJECTIVE: Term congenital heart disease (CHD) neonates display abnormalities of brain structure and maturation, which are possibly related to underlying patient factors, abnormal physiology and perioperative insults. Our primary goal was to delineate associations between clinical factors and postnatal brain microstructure in term CHD neonates using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) magnetic resonance (MR) acquisition combined with complementary data-driven connectome and seed-based tractography quantitative analyses...
2022: Frontiers in Neuroscience