Detection of preclinically latent hyperperfusion due to stroke-like episodes by arterial spin-labeling perfusion MRI in MELAS patients.
2013
Abstract In stroke-like episodes (SEs) of patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), the detection of preclinically latent lesions is a challenge. We report regional cerebral hyperperfusion observed on arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the preclinical phase more than 3 months before the clinical onset of SEs in 3 MELAS patients. These hyperperfused areas were not detected by conventional MRI in the preclinical phase and developed into acute lesions at the clinical onset of SEs, suggesting that ASL imaging has the potential for predicting the emergence of SEs.
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- Molecular biology
- Lactic acidosis
- Biology
- Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging
- Mitochondrial myopathy
- Encephalopathy
- Stroke
- Perfusion scanning
- Site-directed spin labeling
- Cardiology
- Internal medicine
- Perfusion
- Cerebral blood flow
- Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery
- Magnetic resonance angiography
- Magnetic resonance imaging
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