Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in High School Football Players: Brain and Cervical Spine
| Autor: | Hon J, Yu, Lara, Wadi, Irene, Say, Annlia, Paganini-Hill, Daniel, Chow, Arash Hosseini, Jafari, Saifal-Deen, Farhan, Shane Rayos, Del Sol, Osama, Mobayed, Andrew, Alvarez, Anton, Hasso, Scott Shunshan, Li, Hung, Do, Dawn, Berkeley, Yu-Po, Lee, Lydia Min-Ying, Su, Charles, Rosen, Mark, Fisher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Pediatric
football screening and diagnosis Physical Injury - Accidents and Adverse Effects traumatic brain injury sport-related injury Neurosciences General Medicine Neurodegenerative spinal cord injury Brain Disorders 4.1 Discovery and preclinical testing of markers and technologies Detection Clinical Research adolescent Neurological concussion disc degeneration Biomedical Imaging Traumatic Head and Spine Injury MRI |
| Zdroj: | Neurotrauma reports, vol 3, iss 1 |
| Popis: | Football exposes its players to traumatic brain, neck, and spinal injury. It is unknown whether the adolescent football player develops imaging abnormalities of the brain and spine that are detectable on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The objective of this observational study was to identify potential MRI signatures of early brain and cervical spine (c-spine) injury in high school football players. Eighteen football players (mean age, 17.0 ± 1.5 years; mean career length, 6.3 ± 4.0 years) had a baseline brain MRI, and 7 had a follow-up scan 9-42 months later. C-spine MRIs were performed on 11 of the 18 subjects, and 5 had a follow-up scan. C-spine MRIs from 12 age-matched hospital controls were also retrospectively retrieved. Brain MRIs were reviewed by a neuroradiologist, and no cerebral microbleeds were detected. Three readers (a neuroradiologist, a neurosurgeon, and an orthopedic spine surgeon) studied the cervical intervertebral discs at six different cervical levels and graded degeneration using an established five-grade scoring system. We observed no statistically significant difference in disc degeneration or any trend toward increased disc degeneration in the c-spine of football players as compared with age-matched controls. Further research is needed to validate our findings and better understand the true impact of contact sports on young athletes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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