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In the past brain imaging of term infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) was performed with cranial ultrasound (cUS) and computed tomography (CT). Both techniques have several disadvantages sensitivity and specificity is limited compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and CT makes use of radiation. At present MRI including diffusion weighted MRI during the first week of life, has become the method of choice for imaging infants with HIE. In addition to imaging, blood vessels and blood flow can be visualized using MR angiography, MR venography, and arterial spin labeling. Since the use of these techniques additional lesions in infants with HIE, such as arterial ischemic stroke, sinovenous thrombosis, and subdural hemorrhages can be diagnosed, and the incidence appears to be higher than shown previously. Phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) has led to the concept of secondary energy failure in infants with HIE, but has not been widely used. Proton MRS of the basal ganglia and thalamus is one of the best predictors of neurodevelopmental outcome. cUS should still be used for screening infants admitted to a NICU with neonatal encephalopathy. In the future magnetic resonance techniques will be increasingly used as early biomarkers of neurodevelopmental outcome in trials of neuroprotective strategies.
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During the last 50 y research in term infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) has made a tremendous progress resulting in supportive care with mechanical ventilation, circulatory support, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in selected cases, improved neuromonitoring, and the use of hypothermia as a neuroprotective strategy.
Simultaneously, imaging of the brain in infants with HIE has provided insight to clinicians in timing, location, and severity of injury. These novel insights have led to the development of neuroprotective strategies, and imaging techniques are now used as biomarkers of neurodevelopmental outcome.
In this review we will highlight the brain imaging techniques that have been used in term infants with HIE during the last 50 y.
Postmortem Studies
Experimental studies in the 1950s have shown that severe perinatal hypoxia-ischemia could affect the brain resulting in cerebral palsy in surviving animals (1,2). In the 1970s Myers et al. have demonstrated that different patterns of brain injury could be invoked in newborn rhesus monkeys. Basically, two patterns were identified, based on the duration and severity of the hypoxic-ischemic insult (3). The first pattern, occurring after so-called “total asphyxia” or “anoxia” consisted of injury to the deep gray matter and brain stem. In the most severe cases the whole brain was swollen.
The second pattern occurred after “partial asphyxia” or “prolonged hypoxia”, and resulted in injury of the paracentral areas of the brain. At present, these lesions would be considered watershed lesions. In those days full intensive care could not be provided, and many animals died in the week after the hypoxic-ischemic insult. A few surviving animals showed signs of cerebral palsy.
These predominant patterns of injury could also be found in postmortem studies of human infants, and were described as “near-total brain injury”, “injury of the basal ganglia and thalamus”, and “watershed injury” (4,5). Although perinatal asphyxia and ensuing brain injury were considered an important pathology of term infants, imaging studies have been sparse until the first studies using positron-emission tomography.
Positron Emission Tomography
Regional cerebral blood flow and positron emission tomography (PET) studies were performed in the 1980s in full-term infants with perinatal asphyxia (6). Volpe et al. studied 17 infants, of whom 15 were studied between day 3 and 5 (ref. (7)). Abnormalities were seen in the parasagittal brain areas, which were followed by an abnormal neurodevelopment during the first year of life with spastic quadriparesis and delayed development.
A few years earlier Lou et al. studied cerebral blood flow using 133Xe, demonstrating that low cerebral perfusion coincided with brain injury (8).
In a later study increases in regional cerebral metabolic rate of glucose in the basal ganglia and thalamus were observed in infants who developed dyskinetic cerebral palsy (9,10).
PET has not been used extensively in asphyxiated infants, and has mostly been combined with computed tomography (CT), which was introduced in the same period.
Computed Tomography
In 1980, pneumoencephalographic findings in surviving infants with severe asphyxia were compared with CT-scans (11). In particular, cystic lesions in infants with multicystic encephalomalacia could be demonstrated with CT. Several other papers described abnormalities on CT scans and compared findings to postmortem examinations. Although detection of hemorrhages by CT was good, detection of ischemic brain damage noted at autopsy was poor (12). Only 49% were correctly diagnosed by CT prior to death. In severe cases diffuse hypodensity throughout the cerebral hemispheres, and subsequent areas of hypodensity in the cerebral cortex, as well as abnormalities in the subcortical white matter and basal ganglia were described (13). Interestingly, five out of six infants showed a thrombosis of the superior sagittal sinus on contrast enhancement. CT scans on the third day of life performed well compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) concerning severe lesions in the deep gray matter, but performed worse for white matter and cortical injury (14).
CT has however several disadvantages. Poor spatial resolution, use of radiation, and movement of the patient away from the intensive care unit have led to increased use of cranial ultrasound (cUS). For the detection of hemorrhages, CT can be replaced by susceptibility weighted MRI. CT is still used in an acute situation, when neurosurgical intervention is considered (15). However, in many hospitals MRI can also be obtained in acute situations.
Cranial Ultrasound
In the 1980s cUS has been used extensively in preterm infants enabling clinicians to detect germinal matrix-intraventricular hemorrhage and cystic periventricular leukomalacia.
In the early days of cUS the reported sensitivity for lesions in term neonates with HIE was good when imaging was performed beyond the first week of life (16). Abnormalities that could be identified with these first generation real-time sector scanners with a 5-MHz mechanical sector transducer were changes in ventricular size, periventricular echogenicity, extra-axial fluid collections or intracranial hemorrhage. Also increased echogenicity in the thalami was detected (17) ( Figure 1 ). When comparing cUS and MRI the incidence of changes in the basal ganglia/thalami and periventricular white matter was higher with MRI than with cUS, but cranial ultrasound scans identified all infants with a poor outcome (18).
Changes in cerebral blood flow were noted using Doppler techniques. A very low resistance index, corresponding to the “luxury hyperperfusion” described in animal experiments was associated with an adverse outcome (19).
Sensitivity and specificity of cUS were studied in a group of 34 full-term infants with HIE of whom 15 had a normal outcome. Sensitivity and specificity of cUS used within 6 h after birth for an adverse outcome were 42 and 60%, respectively (20). However, with the use of high resolution transducers the value of cUS for detecting intracranial abnormalities in infants with HIE who died was good (21).
More recent studies emphasized the importance of cUS in the term infant with HIE (22,23). cUS immediately after birth can demonstrate congenital structural cerebral abnormalities, fetal brain injury, and detects abnormalities due to other causes of neonatal encephalopathy such as hypoplastic corpus callosum in cases of nonketotic hyperglycinemia, germinolytic cysts in mitochondrial or peroxisomal disorders, severe white matter echogenicity in molybdenum cofactor deficiency, also referred to as “HIE-mimics” (24).
In addition, several other forms of pathology leading to encephalopathy could be identified. Thalamic hemorrhages associated with an intraventricular hemorrhage in term infants could be identified easily, which can be caused by thrombosis of the deep venous system (25,26). Ischemic infarcts in the vascular distribution of the middle cerebral artery could be detected, but recognition was not so good in the first days after birth and smaller cortical infarcts were missed (27,28).
It has been suggested that cUS should be used for screening infants admitted to a NICU with neonatal encephalopathy (15). Increased echogenicity in the white matter seen on day of birth does suggest antenatal onset of neonatal encephalopathy. Abnormalities of the central gray nuclei and PAIS will be first recognized in the second half of the first week.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MRI has been used in infants with HIE since the late 1980s (29,30). After the development of MR sequences for newborn infants, detailed images of the brain structure could be obtained, and a scoring system for abnormalities after HIE was introduced (31). Injury to the basal ganglia and thalamus could be demonstrated, and the signal change in the posterior limb of the internal capsule became an important predictor of adverse outcome in term infants with perinatal asphyxia (32). Of important additional value was the introduction of diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), enabling detection of cell swelling (“cytotoxic edema”) (33). Using DWI, changes in the thalamus during the first days after HIE, and basal ganglia slightly thereafter could be demonstrated, days before they could be identified with conventional T1 and T2 weighted imaging (34) ( Figure 2 ). Furthermore, quantification of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values helped to further improve prediction of outcome after HIE (35). However, ADC values pseudonormalize after the first week, which restricts the value of DWI to the first week (36,37,38).
Different patterns of injury after perinatal asphyxia that were seen with pathology such as watershed lesions of basal ganglia/thalamic lesions could now be visualized in vivo (39,40). Use of MRI has helped to identify lesions in infants with HIE, emphasizing the role of perinatal asphyxia as a causal pathway for brain injury (41).
In addition, other lesions due to cerebral infections, and metabolic disorders (e.g., symptomatic hypoglycemia and molybdenum cofactor deficiency) leading to encephalopathy could be demonstrated. MRI might even be used as a biomarker of neurodevelopmental outcome in studies of neuroprotective strategies (42), and novel techniques such as tract based spatial statistics are currently explored (43).
Routine use of MRI has shown that small subdural hemorrhages are common. In a newborn with relatively mild HIE, these may contribute to seizures. In addition, techniques such as MR angiography and MR venography can visualize the vascular system noninvasively without the use of contrast. Use of MR venography has led to an increased detection of neonatal sinovenous thrombosis. Use of diffusion tensor imaging with or without tractography may help in identifying an asymmetry of the corticospinal tracts, and predict hemiplegia as has been shown in preterm infants (44) ( Figure 3 ).
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
The first studies of brain metabolism were performed using phosphorous MR spectroscopy (31P-MRS) (45). Alterations could be detected in brain tissue, with rapid improvement and secondary deterioration in brain energy metabolism after 6–8 h. The concept of “secondary energy failure” was based on this phenomenon (46). Due to the limited spatial resolution at 1.5 and 3.0 Tesla of 31P-MRS no detailed images of brain metabolism could be obtained (31).P-MRS is still important in animal experiments of HIE, but the clinical value is limited at present. In contrast proton MR spectroscopy is still very important. Since its first use in the early 1990s (1),H-MRS of the basal ganglia and thalamus in HIE has been used to predict an adverse outcome (47,48) ( Figure 4 ).1H-MRS is among the most powerful predictors after HIE (49). MR spectroscopy has also shown that metabolic derangements may persist for weeks after HIE (50). Using chemical shift imaging, also known as spectroscopic imaging, metabolites such as lactate could be demonstrated in vivo in neonatal stroke (51).
Arterial Spin Labeling
Recently, we, and others studied brain perfusion in infants with HIE using arterial spin labeling. Arterial hydrogen protons are inverted in the neck region and a labeled image is acquired after a certain time delay allowing the labeled spins to reach the brain tissue. Higher arterial spin labeling perfusion values in neonates with HIE, especially when seen in the basal ganglia and thalami, are associated with a worse neurodevelopmental outcome (52,53) ( Figure 5 ). The addition of arterial spin labeling to the scanning protocol might further improve prediction of outcome.
Effects of Temperature on Imaging
Hypothermia has been introduced ~10 y ago, and has become a standard neuroprotective strategy for full-term infants with severe perinatal asphyxia. Hypothermia has been shown to reduce injury to the basal ganglia and thalami and white matter, but in the presence of the known patterns of injury, the predictive value remained the same as prior to hypothermia. Hypothermia can modify imaging parameters, such as ADC values. The predictive value of DWI has been influenced by hypothermia. Although the predictive value for an adverse outcome is still excellent, cut-off values of ADC are lower, and pseudo-normalization slower after hypothermia. In addition, ADC values will be lower when imaging is performed during therapeutic hypothermia. Therapeutic hypothermia may also have an effect on results of 1H-MRS (54). Further studies are needed to specify these effects.
Future Developments
Recent studies have demonstrated that several PET techniques may be able to identify human stem cells in stroke patients (55), and discriminate between nonviable and viable (penumbra) tissue, which may be relevant for future trials studying neuroprotective strategies (56).
Whereas DWI and diffusion tensor imaging have become routine techniques to identify hypoxic-ischemic changes, diffusion kurtosis imaging, an extension to diffusion tensor imaging, which has enhanced sensitivity to microstructural changes compared with conventional diffusion tensor imaging parameters, is potentially more effective in cerebral gray matter changes (57).
A novel technique, which can be applied is quantitative sodium MRI. Sodium MRI could give spatial information on tissue viability and time information about onset of cerebral hypoxia-ischemia (58).
Besides these very sophisticated techniques, simple 2D measurements of T1 and T2 MR images can provide information relevant for neurodevelopmental outcome (59).
In conclusion, brain imaging during and after HIE has led to new insights in timing, location, and severity of injury. Cranial ultrasound should still be used for screening purposes during the first 5 d after resuscitation. MRI, in combination with proton MR spectroscopy has become the most specific and sensitive technique to identify lesions and predict outcome. In particular diffusion weighted MRI during the first week after resuscitation, can demonstrate patterns of injury comparable with postmortem examinations. A combination of cUS performed on admission and MRI during the first week allows distinguishing perinatal injury from antenatal injury. The changes in brain metabolism, and the concept of secondary energy failure have contributed to defining the therapeutic window of moderate hypothermia. Novel MR techniques, including tract-based spatial statistics and arterial spin labeling, may be used as biomarkers of outcome.
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Groenendaal, F., de Vries, L. Fifty years of brain imaging in neonatal encephalopathy following perinatal asphyxia. Pediatr Res 81, 150–155 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/pr.2016.195
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