8th Baltic Congress of Radiology

08.10.2022 Tallinn, Estonia

FMRI in perinatal stroke, correlations with outcome

Nigul Ilves (Estonia)

Medical physicist, Engineer, PhD student, Tartu University Hospital, University of Tartu

Biography: Nigul Ilves is a fourth year PhD student at the University of Tartu Department of Radiology. He is also medical physicist at the Tartu University Hospital. His research field focuses on functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in perinatal stroke patients.

Pilvi Ilves (Estonia)

Head of the Radiology Clinic, Tartu University Hospital

Biography: Pilvi Ilves is internationally known as an expert in pediatric neuroimaging, especially stroke imaging. Her current research focus is perinatal and genetic risk factors in pediatric stroke, acute and chronic radiological findings of stroke predictive in outcome of pediatric stroke patients. Her resarch groups includes several doctoral students interested in reorganization and brain plasticity after pediatric stroke. The focus of research is to find correlations between functional magnetic resonance imaging findings and neurocognitive and language outcome of stroke patients. The aim of the research is to find radiological signs which provide child neurologists and other rehabilitation specialists with a better understanding about the need for rehabilitation, as well as about prognosis of stroke patients.

Presentation

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Synopsis: The language outcome and language network lateralization in children with perinatal stroke depends on vascular type and lesion size. Language reorganizes to the contralesional right hemisphere in children with perinatal stroke in case of large left side proximal artery arterial ischemic stroke and in large periventricular venous infarction. However, reorganization of the language center does not ensure normal language outcome. Radiologists need to evaluate the size and the location of the brain damage after perinatal stroke to give information for rehabilitation plans.

This agenda item is presented in the following session: S8-1 Neuroradiology and Stroke

Plenary session

08.10.2022 15:30 - 17:00