Limbic Encephalitis in Patients with Epilepsy-is Quantitative MRI Diagnostic?

Clinical Neuroradiology
Arndt-Hendrik SchievelkampElke Hattingen

Abstract

Limbic encephalitis (LE) is an immune-related disease with limbic symptoms, variable and asymmetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) aspects and antibody profiles. This study investigated the diagnostic value of quantitative relaxation times T2 (qT2) and MRI signal intensities (SI) in LE. The prospective 3T-MRI study included 39 epilepsy patients with initially suspected LE and 20 healthy controls. Values and asymmetry indices of qT2, T2-weighted (T2-w) and proton density (PD)-w SI of manually delineated and automatically segmented amygdala and hippocampus were measured. Additionally, two raters made a blinded visual analysis on FLAIR (fluid attenuation inversion recovery) and T2-w images. According to diagnostic guidelines, 22 patients had probable LE and 17 patients had possible LE. The qT2 was higher (p < 0.01) in patients than in controls (mean ± SD, amygdala 98 ± 7 ms vs. 90 ± 5 ms, hippocampus 101 ± 7 ms vs. 92 ± 3 ms), but was not different between probable and possible LE or between sides (left and right). The PD-w SI and T2-w SI were lower in patients than in controls but were not different between patient subgroups or between sides. Diagnostic performance of visual analysis was relatively poor. Epilepsy patients with ...Continue Reading

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