Long-Term Effects of Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia on Structural and Physiological Integrity of the Eye and Visual Pathway by Multimodal MRI [Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging]

Conclusions. High-field, multimodal MRI demonstrated in vivo the long-term structural and physiological deficits in the eye and brain's visual pathways after unilateral neonatal hypoxic-ischemic injury. The remaining retinocollicular and retinogeniculate pathways appeared to be more vulnerable to anterograde degeneration from eye injury than retrograde, transsynaptic degeneration from visual cortex injury.

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Source: Investigative Ophthalmology - January 13, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Chan, K. C., Kancherla, S., Fan, S.-J., Wu, E. X. Tags: Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging Source Type: research