MRI Predicts Outcome After HIE Treated with Hypothermia

Abstract

Investigators from Children’s National Medical Center and George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, studied the correlation between white matter tract changes and developmental outcomes in a series of infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) treated with whole body cooling.

Keywords

• hypothermia
• corpus callosum
• magnetic resonance imaging
• diffusion tensor imaging