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- The study aimed to assess mammillary body abnormalities in school-age children who underwent therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, comparing them to matched controls.
- Results showed a significant prevalence of mammillary body abnormalities in treated children (34%) compared to controls (0%), and these abnormalities were linked to lower cognitive performance and smaller hippocampi.
- The paper concludes that children who experienced therapeutic hypothermia and have mammillary body abnormalities are at greater risk for cognitive deficits, reduced hippocampal size, and altered brain microstructure compared to those without such abnormalities and to healthy peers.
Article Abstract
Aim: To evaluate mammillary body abnormalities in school-age children without cerebral palsy treated with therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (cases) and matched controls, and associations with cognitive outcome, hippocampal volume, and diffusivity in the mammillothalamic tract (MTT) and fornix.
Method: Mammillary body abnormalities were scored from T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 32 cases and 35 controls (median age [interquartile range] 7 years [6 years 7 months-7 years 7 months] and 7 years 4 months [6 years 7 months-7 years 7 months] respectively). Cognition was assessed using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition. Hippocampal volume (normalized by total brain volume) was measured from T1-weighted MRI. Radial diffusivity and fractional anisotropy were measured in the MTT and fornix, from diffusion-weighted MRI using deterministic tractography.
Results: More cases than controls had mammillary body abnormalities (34% vs 0%; p < 0.001). Cases with abnormal mammillary bodies had lower processing speed (p = 0.016) and full-scale IQ (p = 0.028) than cases without abnormal mammillary bodies, and lower scores than controls in all cognitive domains (p < 0.05). Cases with abnormal mammillary bodies had smaller hippocampi (left p = 0.016; right p = 0.004) and increased radial diffusivity in the right MTT (p = 0.004) compared with cases without mammillary body abnormalities.
Interpretation: Cooled children with mammillary body abnormalities at school-age have reduced cognitive scores, smaller hippocampi, and altered MTT microstructure compared with those without mammillary body abnormalities, and matched controls.
What This Paper Adds: Cooled children are at higher risk of mammillary body abnormalities than controls. Abnormal mammillary bodies are associated with reduced cognitive scores and smaller hippocampi. Abnormal mammillary bodies are associated with altered mammillothalamic tract diffusivity.
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