Kugler, Alexa Viktoria; Deppe, Michael: Non-lesional cerebellar damage in patients with clinically isolated syndrome: DTI measures predict early conversion into clinically definite multiple [...]
Inhalt
- Subjects
- MRI
- DTI data post-processing
- Estimation of lesion load, cerebral, cerebellar and fourth ventricle volume
- Statistical analysis
- Results
- Initial cerebellar FA correlates with conversion latency to MS
- Cerebellar WM FA versus cerebral WM FA
- Relative cerebellar WM volume
- Cerebellar FA change between baseline and follow-up
- Cerebellar FA reproducibility
- EDSS and cerebellar white matter change
- No evidence for macroscopic MRI alterations
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Conflict of interest
- Acknowledgement
- References