Li Zongfang,Zhang Zhenguang,Jiang Yuanming,Gao Wentao,Lu Yi,Zhang Fengrui,Liu Liu.1H-MRS in dorsal thalamus in patients with peripheral facial paralysis resulting from facial nerve injury[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2014,36(17):1842-1846.
Li Zongfang,Zhang Zhenguang,Jiang Yuanming,Gao Wentao,Lu Yi,Zhang Fengrui,Liu Liu.1H-MRS in dorsal thalamus in patients with peripheral facial paralysis resulting from facial nerve injury[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2014,36(17):1842-1846.DOI:
1H-MRS in dorsal thalamus in patients with peripheral facial paralysis resulting from facial nerve injury
Objective To investigate the metabolic alteration in the dorsal thalamus of the peripheral facial paralysis patients resulting from resection of acoustic neuroma in cerebellopontine angle with
1
H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (
1
H-MRS). Methods
1
H-MRS in the thalamus was performed by point-resolved
surface coil spectroscopy (PRESS) sequence in 24 patients with peripheral facial paralysis and 24 healthy controls (control group) in our department from January 2013 to February 2014. These patients were divided into 2 groups
facial nerve injury operation group and non-operation side group. Point-resolved surface coil spectroscopy (PRESS) was used to compute peak area of each metabolite
including N-acetyl aspartate (NAA)
choline (Cho)
creatine (Cr)
and their ratios to Cr. First
the NAA
Cho
NAA/Cr
Cho/Cr between the left side and the right side of control group was compared. Then
NAA
Cho
NAA/Cr
Cho/Cr between the operation side
non-operation side of facial nerve injury group and control group was compared respectively. Last
the correlation between the index of statistical difference and the duration of peripheral facial paralysis was evaluated. Results No statistical difference was observed in the level of NAA
Cho
NAA/Cr
and Cho/Cr between the left side and the right side of control group (P0.05)
and between the non-operation side of facial nerve injury group and control group (P0.05). In lateral posterior part (LP) (t=3.338
P0.05) and medial anterior part (MA) (t=2.944
P0.05) of the thalamus
compared with the controls
the operation side of facial nerve injury group showed significantly increased NAA/Cr. But correlation analysis displayed that there was no correlation between the index of statistical difference and the duration of peripheral facial paralysis. Conclusion Patients with peripheral facial paralysis resulting from resection of acoustic neuroma in cerebellopontine angle have abnormal metabolic changes in the thalamus
which may suggest there is a compensatory enhancement of proprioception afferent in facial non-paralysis side.