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Future Tools for Diagnosis and Monitoring mTBI. Maheen M. Adamson, PhD WRIISC Palo Alto VAHCS. Outline. TBI vs. mTBI Dissecting the injury Differences in structural MRI Why is standard clinical intervention not enough? Different types of neuroimaging that show promise. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Future Tools for Diagnosis and Monitoring mTBI
Maheen M. Adamson, PhDWRIISC Palo Alto VAHCS
Outline TBI vs. mTBI Dissecting the injury Differences in structural MRI Why is standard clinical intervention not
enough? Different types of neuroimaging that show
promise.
Definition of mild TBI - review
Loss of consciousness (LOC) duration is relatively short: less than 1 minute versus less than 10 minutes vs less than 30 minutes
Post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) less than 24 hours
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 13-15 (acutely) No penetrating brain injury No focal neurological findings (different groups use different definitions)
Complicated Mild TBI When clinical neuroimaging findings are
present following a mTBI, the classification changes to “complicated mTBI,” which has a 6-month outcome more similar to moderate TBI1,2
1Williams DH, Levin HS, Eisenberg HM. Mild head injury classification. Neurosurgery 1990;27(3):422-8.
2Kashluba S, Hanks RA, Casey JE, Millis SR. Neuropsychologic and functional outcome after complicated mild traumatic brain injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2008; 89(5): 904-11.
From Belanger, 2009
What are the injuries? Most Common Primary Injuries
Concussion (shaking of the brain caused by any violent blow the head, usually causing loss of consciousness)
Contusion (bruising) Subdural hematoma (a bleed immediately under the dura) Diffuse axonal injury
Most Common Secondary Injuries Excitotoxicity (release of calcium, binding of magnesium) Edema Ischemia
Every Traumatic Brain Injury is Unique
Severity of TBI Cases Treated at DVBIC Sites
Military Issues regarding TBI
Soldiers in Iraq are being exposed to a large number of blasts (IEDs), many soldiers exposed at the same time
Some soldiers are exposed to many blasts Soldiers wear body armor that protects vital organs Helmets protect against missile injuries, but not against
blast shock waves. It is difficult to identify the brain changes with mild TBI Consequently, many soldiers are getting brain damage
and experiencing functional deficits attributable to TBI
What are the forces?
Center of massTranslational force vector
Rotational force vector
(Figure adapted from Arciniegas and Beresford 2001)
TBI Pathology / Mechanisms Coup-contra-coup – contusion Collision of medial temporal lobe structures, orbito-frontal cortex with bones
of base of skull Breakage of blood vessels
Macro hemorrhages - injury to large blood vessels Subdural hematoma – local pressure Epidural hematoma – arterial pressure, rapidly progressing Subarachnoid bleeding – herniation; normal pressure hydrocephalus
Small hemorrhages – arterioles (30-150 um) Microbleeds at the gray-white matter junction
Disruption of blood flow, clotting Local edema, increased intracranial pressure Shear injury - breakage of axons (0.2 – 0.5 um)
Vulnerability at gray-white matter junctions (Not Diffuse??)
Maas et al, Lancet Neurology, 2008
The Mechanisms of Damage from TBI
ICP= Intracranial pressureCPP= Cerebral perfusion pressureSDH = Sub Dural HematomaDAI = Diffuse Axonal Injury
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Courtesy Dr. Gary Abrams
Complex Interactions of Trauma Sequelae
Courtesy Dr. Gary Abrams
Frontal and temporal pole contusions in two cases as reported by Gurdjian (1975). Note the extensiveness of the ventral surface contusions. From Impact head injury: Mechanistic, clinical and preventive correlation (pp. 242, 243), by E. S. Gurdjian, 1975, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
Parasagittal plane through the long axis of the hippocampus at post-mortem. Note how the temporal pole is “cradled” and “hugged” by the middle cranial fossa as well as the sharp edge of the sphenoid ridge, asit juts into the Sylvian fissure. The head of hippocampus is approximately 2 cm from the sphenoid ridge and, when brain compression occurs, can deform over the ridge. From Atlas of the Human Brain (2nd ed., p. 83), by J. K. Mai, G. Paxinos, and J. K. Assheuer, 2004, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Coronal views are presented on top from an older teenage patient who sustained a severe traumaticbrain injury (TBI). As visualized, the fornix has withered in comparison to the age-matched control. This isthought to represent downstream degeneration of this structure as a result of the hippocampal and medialtemporal lobe damage, including temporal horn dilation, that can be seen on the right in comparison with thecontrol subject, where the true inversion recovery sequence MRI scan provides exquisite anatomical detail of the brain. Also, note the marked reduction in the size of the temporal stem and overall reduction in the amount and integrity of the temporal lobe white matter in comparison to the control.
Adapted from Bigler, 2007
Adapted from Bigler, 2007
A patient who sustained a head injury from a fall, where the focal impact was to the back of the patient’s head, with the resulting contra coup injury to fronto-temporal regions. Axial CT toward the base of the skull depicting acute inferior frontal and anterior temporal lobe contusions, with associated edema. Notethe close proximity of the contusions to the sphenoid.
3-D spiral CT coregistered with 3-D thin-slice MRI
A middle-aged individual who sustained a significant temporal lobe contusion as a consequence of a high speed, side-impact MVA. This patient did sustain a significant left temporal lobe contusion, where the follow-up MRI approximately 2 years post-injury demonstrates significant temporal horn dilation, hippocampal atrophy (compare left and right hippocampal size), and general volume loss of the temporal lobe.
Adapted from Bigler, 2007
Bigler, Neuropsychology, 2007
Note variations in: Location Volume Depth
What does the future hold? Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion (clinical and
research applications) Susceptibility weighted imaging (enhanced
contrast magnitude image which is exquisitely sensitive to venous blood, hemorrhage and iron storage)
Functional MRI (functional correlate of cognition) Resting states of the brain
Arterial spin labeling perfusion
Group activation maps obtained during letter 2-back working memory task from control subjects (left)and patients with traumatic brain injury studied following either placebo (middle) or methylphenidate (MPH) (right). Frontal activation in patients is reduced on placebo when compared with activation in controls, but normal-appearing activation is restored after MPH administration. Source: Unpublished data courtesy of Junghoon Kim and John Whyte, Moss Rehabilitation Institute.
Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI)
Regions of venous vascular content and hemorrhage in a tumor, which are not seen in the conventional postcontrast T1-weighted image (left) (Sehgal et al., 2005).
Functional MRI
Working Memory in mTBI
McAllister et al., 2001
Longitudinal Functional MRI in Severe TBI
Increased activation observed after 6-month evolution in TBI patients during the 3-back condition.
The most striking changes were seen in the bilateral prefrontal cortex, with left hemisphere predominance.
The second region that showed statistical significant changes was the bilateral parietal posterior region.
Both regions are involved in working memory processes. Statistical Parametric Maps with left as left.
Kim et al., 2009
Conventional MRI and resting-state fMRI correlation analysis in a 21-year-old with
verbal memory deficits following traumatic brain injury
MacDonald et al., 2008
(A) Conventional MRI (FLAIR) revealed bilateral superior frontal lesions but no abnormalities that would explain the patient’sverbal memory deficit (left to right: transverse slices at the level of hippocampus, thalamus, fornix, cingulum).
Resting state fMRI
Spatial map of resting BOLD correlations with the left hippocampus. Yellow arrows indicate absence of significant correlations between the left hippocampus and anterior cingulate or between left hippocampus and anterior thalamus.White arrows point to areas of abnormally increased correlation with the left hippocampus, of unknown importance. (C)Normal right hippocampal functional connectivity. Top panel: BOLD signal time course in the right hippocampus (green line)and anterior cingulate (blue line) were normally correlated (r 0.40). Bottom panel: spatial map of resting BOLD correlationswith right hippocampus. Significant correlations were observed between the right hippocampus and anterior cingulateas well as anterior thalamus (yellow arrows). Images displayed in anatomic space; patient’s left side on the left side ofthe images.
MacDonald et al., 2008
Conclusions High resolution MRI PET Amyloid imaging Separating PTSD from TBI Understanding the long term effects of
mTBI in OEF/OIF population in the context of neural, behavior and cognitive changes