Abstract
Moyamoya is a progressive, non-atherosclerotic cerebral arteriopathy that may present in childhood and currently has no cure. Early diagnosis is critical to prevent a lifelong risk of neurological morbidity. Blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) MRI cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) imaging provides a non-invasive, in vivo measure of autoregulatory capacity and cerebrovascular reserve. However, non-compliant or younger children require general anesthesia to achieve BOLD-CVR imaging. To determine the same-day repeatability of BOLD-CVR imaging under general anesthesia in children with moyamoya. Twenty-eight examination pairs were included (mean patient age = 7.3 ± 4.0years). Positive and negatively reacting voxels were averaged over signals and counted over brain tissue and vascular territory. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and Bland-Altman plots were used to assess the variability between the scans. There was excellent-to-good (≥ 0.59) within-day repeatability in 18 out of 28 paired studies (64.3%). Wilcoxon signed-rank tests demonstrated no significant difference in the grey and white matter CVR estimates, between repeat scans (all p-values > 0.05). Bland-Altman plots of differences in mean magnitude of positive and negative and fractional positive and negative CVR estimates illustrated a reasonable degree of agreement between repeat scans and no systematic bias. BOLD-CVR imaging provides repeatable assessment of cerebrovascular reserve in children with moyamoya imaged under general anesthesia.
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