Diagnostic accuracy of neonatal structural MRI scores to predict 6-year motor outcomes of children born very preterm

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Mistry, Karen H
Bora, Samudragupta
Pannek, Kerstin
Pagnozzi, Alex M
Fiori, Simona
Guzzetta, Andrea
Ware, Robert S
Colditz, Paul B
Boyd, Roslyn N
George, Joanne M
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2025
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Aims This study aimed to (1) evaluate associations between Early and Term structural MRI (sMRI) brain abnormality scores and adverse motor outcomes at 6-years corrected age (CA), (2) determine their diagnostic accuracy in predicting adverse motor outcomes and cerebral palsy (CP) at 6-years CA.

Methods Infants born < 31-weeks gestational age (GA) returning for 6-year follow-up were included. Early and Term sMRI were scored using a validated method, deriving white matter, cortical grey matter, deep grey matter, cerebellar and global brain abnormality scores (GBAS). At 6-years CA, Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2nd Edition (MABC-2) was administered. Linear regression assessed associations between Early and Term GBAS/subscale scores and 6-year MABC-2 total score. For diagnostic accuracy, sMRI scores were categorised as none/mild vs moderate/severe, MABC-2 cut-off ≤ 5th percentile, and CP as present/absent.

Results Infants had Early MRI (n = 123) at mean PMA 32.5-weeks (median GA 28.4-weeks; mean birthweight 1101 g) and n = 114 had Term MRI (Mean PMA 40.8-weeks). Nine had CP and n = 116 had MABC-2 scores. Early (B: −1.92; p ≤ 0.001) and Term (B: −1.67; p ≤ 0.01) GBAS were negatively associated with MABC-2 scores. Both Early and Term GBAS had high specificity (Sp) and low sensitivity (Se) in predicting MABC-2 ≤ 5th percentile (Early: Se 36 %, Sp 82 %; Term: Se 28 %, Sp 93 %) and predicted CP with high Se and Sp (Early: Se 78 %, Sp 78 %; Term: Se 75 %, Sp 89 %).

Conclusion High Sp of Early and Term MRI predicting an outcome on MABC-2 may help accurately identify infants unlikely to develop motor impairments at 6-years CA.

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NeuroImage: Clinical

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45

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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Mistry, KH; Bora, S; Pannek, K; Pagnozzi, AM; Fiori, S; Guzzetta, A; Ware, RS; Colditz, PB; Boyd, RN; George, JM, Diagnostic accuracy of neonatal structural MRI scores to predict 6-year motor outcomes of children born very preterm, NeuroImage: Clinical, 2025, 45, pp. 103725

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