Imaging of meningitis and ventriculitis

S Mohan, KK Jain, M Arabi, GV Shah - Neuroimaging Clinics of North …, 2012 - Elsevier
Central nervous system infections account for 1% of primary hospital admissions and 2% of
nosocomial infections and when encountered require prompt diagnosis and initiation of …

Magnetic resonance imaging of infectious meningitis and ventriculitis in adults

S Hazany, JL Go, M Law - Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Magnetic resonance imaging findings of meningitis are usually nonspecific with respect to
the causative pathogen because the brain response to these insults is similar in most cases …

Identification and characterization of Huntington related pathology: an in vivo DKI imaging study

I Blockx, M Verhoye, J Van Audekerke, I Bergwerf… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
An important focus of Huntington Disease (HD) research is the identification of symptom-
independent biomarkers of HD neuropathology. There is an urgent need for reproducible …

IL-10 administration reduces PGE-2 levels and promotes CR3-mediated clearance of Escherichia coli K1 by phagocytes in meningitis

R Mittal, I Gonzalez-Gomez, A Panigrahy… - Journal of Experimental …, 2010 - rupress.org
Ineffectiveness of antibiotics in treating neonatal Escherichia coli K1 meningitis and the
emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains evidently warrants new prevention strategies. We …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical application of diffusion tensor imaging

R Trivedi, RKS Rathore, RK Gupta - The Indian Journal of …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Polymicrogyria (PMG): PMG, a surface area derivative anomaly, commonly manifests as a
seizure disorder. MRI is routinely used to study these patients in vivo. Though conventional …

Diffusion tensor imaging study of white matter damage in chronic meningitis

WC Lin, PC Chen, HC Wang, NW Tsai, KH Chou… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) and cryptococcal meningitis (CM) are two of the most
common types of chronic meningitis. This study aimed to assess whether chronic neuro …

Diffusion tensor and tensor metrics imaging in intracranial epidermoid cysts

K Santhosh, B Thomas… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To explore the utility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and diffusion tensor metrics
(DTM) in characterizing the structural pathology of epidermoid cysts. DTI gives information …

Can we differentiate true white matter fibers from pseudofibers inside a brain abscess cavity using geometrical diffusion tensor imaging metrics?

M Kumar, RK Gupta, K Nath… - NMR in Biomedicine …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
High fractional anisotropy (FA) usually reflects the orientation and integrity of white matter
(WM) fibers. Other regions of increased FA have been described, such as brain abscesses …

Correlation of CSF neuroinflammatory molecules with leptomeningeal cortical subcortical white matter fractional anisotropy in neonatal meningitis

A Yadav, GK Malik, R Trivedi, A Prasad, K Nath… - Magnetic resonance …, 2009 - Elsevier
It has been previously hypothesized that the high fractional anisotropy (FA) values in
leptomeningeal cortical subcortical white matter (LCSWM) regions of neonatal brain with …

Understanding changes in DTI metrics in patients with different stages of neurocysticercosis

RK Gupta, R Trivedi, R Awasthi, VK Paliwal… - Magnetic resonance …, 2012 - Elsevier
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was performed on 25 patients with neurocysticercosis (NCC).
The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in DTI measures during the …