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Levoy E, Sperber A, Poon D, Casazza M, Vargas J, Yang S, Grant G, Singer S, Srinivas N. A Multifaceted Intervention to Improve Teamwork on an Inpatient Pediatric Neurosurgery Service. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 2024; 50:104-115. [PMID: 37806797 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjq.2023.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Increased safety reports related to interprofessional teamwork on an acute care unit at a quaternary children's hospital prompted a teamwork-focused improvement effort on the pediatric neurosurgery service. METHODS An interprofessional workgroup was formed and met twice monthly throughout the project. A survey using modified validated items was disseminated to pediatric neurosurgery nurses, advanced practice providers (APPs), and physicians in March 2021 to identify opportunities for improvement. Structured debriefs on survey results promoted discourse on teamwork. The researchers implemented two interventions: (1) nursing-centered interprofessional education and (2) a rounding checklist before redistributing the survey in December 2021. RESULTS Baseline and follow-up survey response rates were 84.1% (58/69) and 71.4% (50/70), respectively. Nurses at baseline perceived lower teamwork scores for 12 items compared to physicians and APPs (p < 0.05). Nurse perceptions improved after interventions in: "using 'we' rather than 'they'" (21.3% vs. 51.2% agree, p = 0.003), "I am confident that this team works effectively" (46.8% vs. 80.5%, p = 0.001), "shared understanding of each other's role on the team" (48.9% vs. 73.2% agree, p = 0.02), and "getting others on the team to listen" (46.8% vs. 75.6%, p = 0.004). Mean teamwork effectiveness improved from 4.12 to 5.25 (out of 7; p < 0.0001). Nurses ranked three interventions as most effective: interprofessional training (35/41, 85.4%), educational clinical pearls (14/41, 34.1%), and structured opportunities to discuss teamwork (10/41, 24.4%). CONCLUSION Interprofessional training, a teamwork survey, and structured debriefing improved nurse perceptions of teamwork. Interventions targeting social components of change can improve teamwork even without process changes.
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Charles AJ, Seas A, Corley J, Duvall JB, Owolo E, Abu-Bonsrah N, Elsamadicy AA, Simpson V, Sanusi O, Holly LT, Rodriguez A, Nduom EK, Levi AD, Liau LM, Quiñones-Hinojosa A, Karikari I, Grant G, Fuller AT, Goodwin CR. Promoting diversity in neurosurgery through a virtual symposium. J Neurosurg 2023; 139:1101-1108. [PMID: 36905659 DOI: 10.3171/2023.1.jns221743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The rates of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (UREM) students successfully matching into neurosurgical residency are extremely low and do not reflect the makeup of the general population. As of 2019, only 17.5% of neurosurgical residents in the United States were women, 4.95% were Black or African American, and 7.2% were Hispanic or Latinx. Earlier recruitment of UREM students will help to diversify the neurosurgical workforce. Therefore, the authors developed a virtual educational event for undergraduate students entitled "Future Leaders in Neurosurgery Symposium for Underrepresented Students'' (FLNSUS). The primary objectives of the FLNSUS were to expose attendees to 1) neurosurgeons from diverse gender, racial, and ethnic backgrounds; 2) neurosurgical research; 3) opportunities for neurosurgical mentorship; and 4) information about life as a neurosurgeon. The authors hypothesized that the FLNSUS would increase student self-confidence, provide exposure to the specialty, and reduce perceived barriers to a neurosurgical career. METHODS To measure the change in participant perceptions of neurosurgery, pre- and postsymposium surveys were administered to attendees. Of the 269 participants who completed the presymposium survey, 250 participated in the virtual event and 124 completed the postsymposium survey. Paired pre- and postsurvey responses were used for analysis, yielding a response rate of 46%. To assess the impact of participant perceptions of neurosurgery as a field, pre- and postsurvey responses to questions were compared. The change in response was analyzed, and a nonparametric sign test was performed to check for significant differences. RESULTS According to the sign test, applicants showed increased familiarity with the field (p < 0.001), increased confidence in their abilities to become neurosurgeons (p = 0.014), and increased exposure to neurosurgeons from diverse gender, racial, and ethnic backgrounds (p < 0.001 for all categories). CONCLUSIONS These results reflect a significant improvement in student perceptions of neurosurgery and suggest that symposiums like the FLNSUS may promote further diversification of the field. The authors anticipate that events promoting diversity in neurosurgery will lead to a more equitable workforce that will ultimately translate to enhanced research productivity, cultural humility, and patient-centered care in neurosurgery.
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- Antoinette J Charles
- 1Equity and Justice in Neurosurgery, Durham
- 2Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham
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- 2Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham
- 3Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- 1Equity and Justice in Neurosurgery, Durham
- 2Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham
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- 1Equity and Justice in Neurosurgery, Durham
- 4Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- 2Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham
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- 5Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- 7Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- 8Department of Neurosurgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- 9Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California
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- 10Department of Neurosurgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas
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- 11Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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- 12Department of Neurosurgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami; and
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- 8Department of Neurosurgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- 2Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham
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Karimpoor M, Georgiadis M, Zhao MY, Goubran M, Moein Taghavi H, Mills BD, Tran D, Mouchawar N, Sami S, Wintermark M, Grant G, Camarillo DB, Moseley ME, Zaharchuk G, Zeineh MM. Longitudinal Alterations of Cerebral Blood Flow in High-Contact Sports. Ann Neurol 2023; 94:457-469. [PMID: 37306544 DOI: 10.1002/ana.26718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Repetitive head trauma is common in high-contact sports. Cerebral blood flow (CBF) can measure changes in brain perfusion that could indicate injury. Longitudinal studies with a control group are necessary to account for interindividual and developmental effects. We investigated whether exposure to head impacts causes longitudinal CBF changes. METHODS We prospectively studied 63 American football (high-contact cohort) and 34 volleyball (low-contact controls) male collegiate athletes, tracking CBF using 3D pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging for up to 4 years. Regional relative CBF (rCBF, normalized to cerebellar CBF) was computed after co-registering to T1-weighted images. A linear mixed effects model assessed the relationship of rCBF to sport, time, and their interaction. Within football players, we modeled rCBF against position-based head impact risk and baseline Standardized Concussion Assessment Tool score. Additionally, we evaluated early (1-5 days) and delayed (3-6 months) post-concussion rCBF changes (in-study concussion). RESULTS Supratentorial gray matter rCBF declined in football compared with volleyball (sport-time interaction p = 0.012), with a strong effect in the parietal lobe (p = 0.002). Football players with higher position-based impact-risk had lower occipital rCBF over time (interaction p = 0.005), whereas players with lower baseline Standardized Concussion Assessment Tool score (worse performance) had relatively decreased rCBF in the cingulate-insula over time (interaction effect p = 0.007). Both cohorts showed a left-right rCBF asymmetry that decreased over time. Football players with an in-study concussion showed an early increase in occipital lobe rCBF (p = 0.0166). INTERPRETATION These results suggest head impacts may result in an early increase in rCBF, but cumulatively a long-term decrease in rCBF. ANN NEUROL 2023;94:457-469.
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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Goubran M, Mills BD, Georgiadis M, Karimpoor M, Mouchawar N, Sami S, Dennis EL, Akers C, Mitchell L, Boldt B, Douglas D, DiGiacomo PS, Rosenberg J, Grant G, Wintermark M, Camarillo DB, Zeineh M. Microstructural Alterations in Tract Development in College Football and Volleyball Players: A Longitudinal Diffusion MRI Study. Neurology 2023; 101:e953-e965. [PMID: 37479529 PMCID: PMC10501097 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000207543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Repeated impacts in high-contact sports such as American football can affect the brain's microstructure, which can be studied using diffusion MRI. Most imaging studies are cross-sectional, do not include low-contact players as controls, or lack advanced tract-specific microstructural metrics. We aimed to investigate longitudinal changes in high-contact collegiate athletes compared with low-contact controls using advanced diffusion MRI and automated fiber quantification. METHODS We examined brain microstructure in high-contact (football) and low-contact (volleyball) collegiate athletes with up to 4 years of follow-up. Inclusion criteria included university and team enrollment. Exclusion criteria included history of neurosurgery, severe brain injury, and major neurologic or substance abuse disorder. We investigated diffusion metrics along the length of tracts using nested linear mixed-effects models to ascertain the acute and chronic effects of subconcussive and concussive impacts, and associations between diffusion changes with clinical, behavioral, and sports-related measures. RESULTS Forty-nine football and 24 volleyball players (271 total scans) were included. Football players had significantly divergent trajectories in multiple microstructural metrics and tracts. Longitudinal increases in fractional anisotropy and axonal water fraction, and decreases in radial/mean diffusivity and orientation dispersion index, were present in volleyball but absent in football players (all findings |T-statistic|> 3.5, p value <0.0001). This pattern was present in the callosum forceps minor, superior longitudinal fasciculus, thalamic radiation, and cingulum hippocampus. Longitudinal differences were more prominent and observed in more tracts in concussed football players (n = 24, |T|> 3.6, p < 0.0001). An analysis of immediate postconcussion scans (n = 12) demonstrated a transient localized increase in axial diffusivity and mean/radial kurtosis in the uncinate and cingulum hippocampus (|T| > 3.7, p < 0.0001). Finally, within football players, those with high position-based impact risk demonstrated increased intracellular volume fraction longitudinally (T = 3.6, p < 0.0001). DISCUSSION The observed longitudinal changes seen in football, and especially concussed athletes, could reveal diminished myelination, altered axonal calibers, or depressed pruning processes leading to a static, nondecreasing axonal dispersion. This prospective longitudinal study demonstrates divergent tract-specific trajectories of brain microstructure, possibly reflecting a concussive and repeated subconcussive impact-related alteration of white matter development in football athletes.
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- Maged Goubran
- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
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- From the Departments of Radiology (Maged Goubran, B.D.M., Marios Georgiadis, M.K., N.M., C.A., L.M., D.D., P.S.D., J.R., M.W., M.Z.), Neurosurgery (G.G.), and Bioengineering (D.B.C.), Stanford University, CA; Department of Medical Biophysics (Maged Goubran) and Physical Sciences Platform & Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program (Maged Goubran), Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; Stanford Center for Clinical Research (S.S.), CA; Department of Neurology (E.L.D.), University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; Department of Radiology (B.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Department of Radiology (B.B.), Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA.
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Cecchi NJ, Domel AG, Liu Y, Rice E, Lu R, Zhan X, Zhou Z, Raymond SJ, Sami S, Singh H, Rangel I, Watson LP, Kleiven S, Zeineh M, Camarillo DB, Grant G. Correction: Identifying Factors Associated with Head Impact Kinematics and Brain Strain in High School American Football via Instrumented Mouthguards. Ann Biomed Eng 2023; 51:456. [PMID: 36593307 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-022-03132-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Nicholas J Cecchi
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Stanford Center for Clinical Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Stanford Center for Clinical Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Stanford Center for Clinical Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Stanford Center for Clinical Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Dr Room R211, MC 5327, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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Kancherla V, Ma C, Purkey NJ, Hintz SR, Lee HC, Grant G, Carmichael SL. Factors Associated with Transfer Distance from Birth Hospital to Repair Hospital for First Surgical Repair among Infants with Myelomeningocele in California. Am J Perinatol 2023. [PMID: 36646096 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1760431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to examine factors associated with distance to care for first surgical repair among infants with myelomeningocele in California. STUDY DESIGN A total of 677 eligible cases with complete geocoded data were identified for birth years 2006 to 2012 using data from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative linked to hospital and vital records. The median distance from home to birth hospital among eligible infants was 9 miles, and from birth hospital to repair hospital was 15 miles. We limited our analysis to infants who lived close to the birth hospital, creating two study groups to examine transfer distance patterns: "lived close and had a short transfer" (i.e., lived <9 miles from birth hospital and traveled <15 miles from birth hospital to repair hospital; n = 92), and "lived close and had a long transfer" (i.e., lived <9 miles from birth hospital and traveled ≥15 miles from birth hospital to repair hospital; n = 96). Log-binomial regression was used to estimate crude and adjusted risk ratios (aRRs and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Selected maternal, infant, and birth hospital characteristics were compared between the two groups. RESULTS We found that low birth weight (aRR = 1.44; 95% CI = 1.04, 1.99) and preterm birth (aRR = 1.41; 95% CI = 1.01, 1.97) were positively associated, whereas initiating prenatal care early in the first trimester was inversely associated (aRR = 0.64; 95% CI = 0.46, 0.89) with transferring a longer distance (≥15 miles) from birth hospital to repair hospital. No significant associations were noted by maternal race-ethnicity, socioeconomic indicators, or the level of hospital care at the birth hospital. CONCLUSION Our study identified selected infant factors associated with the distance to access surgical care for infants with myelomeningocele who had to transfer from birth hospital to repair hospital. Distance-based barriers to care should be identified and optimized when planning deliveries of at-risk infants in other populations. KEY POINTS · Low birth weight predicted long hospital transfer distance.. · Preterm birth was associated with transfer distance.. · Prenatal care was associated with transfer distance..
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- Vijaya Kancherla
- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, Stanford, California
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- Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, Stanford, California
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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Lilly JV, Rokita JL, Mason JL, Patton T, Stefankiewiz S, Higgins D, Trooskin G, Larouci CA, Arya K, Appert E, Heath AP, Zhu Y, Brown MA, Zhang B, Farrow BK, Robins S, Morgan AM, Nguyen TQ, Frenkel E, Lehmann K, Drake E, Sullivan C, Plisiewicz A, Coleman N, Patterson L, Koptyra M, Helili Z, Van Kuren N, Young N, Kim MC, Friedman C, Lubneuski A, Blackden C, Williams M, Baubet V, Tauhid L, Galanaugh J, Boucher K, Ijaz H, Cole KA, Choudhari N, Santi M, Moulder RW, Waller J, Rife W, Diskin SJ, Mateos M, Parsons DW, Pollack IF, Goldman S, Leary S, Caporalini C, Buccoliero AM, Scagnet M, Haussler D, Hanson D, Firestein R, Cain J, Phillips JJ, Gupta N, Mueller S, Grant G, Monje-Deisseroth M, Partap S, Greenfield JP, Hashizume R, Smith A, Zhu S, Johnston JM, Fangusaro JR, Miller M, Wood MD, Gardner S, Carter CL, Prolo LM, Pisapia J, Pehlivan K, Franson A, Niazi T, Rubin J, Abdelbaki M, Ziegler DS, Lindsay HB, Stucklin AG, Gerber N, Vaske OM, Quinsey C, Rood BR, Nazarian J, Raabe E, Jackson EM, Stapleton S, Lober RM, Kram DE, Koschmann C, Storm PB, Lulla RR, Prados M, Resnick AC, Waanders AJ. The children's brain tumor network (CBTN) - Accelerating research in pediatric central nervous system tumors through collaboration and open science. Neoplasia 2023; 35:100846. [PMID: 36335802 PMCID: PMC9641002 DOI: 10.1016/j.neo.2022.100846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Pediatric brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related death in children in the United States and contribute a disproportionate number of potential years of life lost compared to adult cancers. Moreover, survivors frequently suffer long-term side effects, including secondary cancers. The Children's Brain Tumor Network (CBTN) is a multi-institutional international clinical research consortium created to advance therapeutic development through the collection and rapid distribution of biospecimens and data via open-science research platforms for real-time access and use by the global research community. The CBTN's 32 member institutions utilize a shared regulatory governance architecture at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to accelerate and maximize the use of biospecimens and data. As of August 2022, CBTN has enrolled over 4700 subjects, over 1500 parents, and collected over 65,000 biospecimen aliquots for research. Additionally, over 80 preclinical models have been developed from collected tumors. Multi-omic data for over 1000 tumors and germline material are currently available with data generation for > 5000 samples underway. To our knowledge, CBTN provides the largest open-access pediatric brain tumor multi-omic dataset annotated with longitudinal clinical and outcome data, imaging, associated biospecimens, child-parent genomic pedigrees, and in vivo and in vitro preclinical models. Empowered by NIH-supported platforms such as the Kids First Data Resource and the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, the CBTN continues to expand the resources needed for scientists to accelerate translational impact for improved outcomes and quality of life for children with brain and spinal cord tumors.
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- Jena V Lilly
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- UPMC The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix AZ, USA; University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix AZ, USA
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- Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
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- University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, USA
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- Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia
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- Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia
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- University of California San Francisco & Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of California San Francisco & Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of California San Francisco & Benioff Children's Hospitals, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Lucille Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL, USA
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- China National Genebank (Beijing Genomics Institute), China
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Children's of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR, USA
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- Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR, USA
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- Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, Nutley, NJ, USA
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- Lucille Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA
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- Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA
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- C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, FL, USA
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- St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO
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- Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, High St, Randwick, NSW, Australia; Children's Cancer Institute, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia; School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; North Carolina Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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- University Children's Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Center for Genetic Medicine Research, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA; The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
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- UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; North Carolina Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of California San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital, San Franscisco, CA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Spiotta AM, Jankowitz BT, Heit JJ, Grant G, Baccin CE, Samaniego EA, Singh P. Correspondence on: 'Artificial intelligence aneurysm measurement tool finds growth in all aneurysms that ruptured during conservative management' by Sahlein et al. J Neurointerv Surg 2022:jnis-2022-019905. [PMID: 36597940 DOI: 10.1136/jnis-2022-019905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Alejandro M Spiotta
- Neurosurgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Radiology, Neuroadiology and Neurointervention Division, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Interventional Radiology, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Neurology, Radiology and Neurosurgery, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Neuroendovascular Surgery, MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Park J, Lancero H, Nasajpour E, Garcia C, Prolo L, Grant G, Petritsch C. STEM-15. THERAPY-INDUCED CHANGES BY BRAF AND MEK INHIBITORS IN BRAF V600E-MUTATED GLIOMA MODELS PROVIDE POTENTIAL NOVEL THERAPEUTIC OPPORTUNITIES. Neuro Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac209.132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Combinations of the MEK inhibitor trametinib, and BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib (BRAFi+MEKi) show rapid and sustained responses in patients with BRAF V600E-mutated low-grade glioma, but tumor rebound after treatment discontinuation is frequent. Moreover, a lack of response is common in patient with high-grade glioma raising the need for further research into BRAFi+MEKi effects on tumors. We showed previously that BRAF V600E-mutated glioma cells positive for CD133 (Prominin-1), a marker of brain tumor stem cells, show decreased sensitivity to BRAFi, indicative of their role in promoting therapy resistance. BRAF V600E-mutated murine and patient-derived glioma cell lines (STN-10049, SU-aGBM5) were generated and together with established BRAF V600E-mutated cell lines (DBTRG, AM38) were analyzed for changes in gene expression in response to 48 hrs treatment with BRAFi dabrafenib and MEKi trametinib. Cells were analyzed by RNA-seq and gene enrichment analyses while cell culture supernatant was analyzed for cytokine production using an ELISA. Syngeneic, orthotopic BRAF V600E-mutated tumor allograft-bearing mice were treated with BRAFi+MEKi, with therapeutic antibodies against immune checkpoint molecules (anti-PD-L1 and anti-CTLA-4) and with combination of all four agents, and tumors were analyzed by mass cytometry and immunofluorescence for stem and T cell markers. BRAFi+MEKi treatment induced an interferon gamma (IFNg) response gene signature in BRAF V600E-mutated glioma cells and increased HLA gene expression. The frequency of tumor-infiltrating CD4+ CD8+ T cells in syngeneic BRAF V600E-mutated tumor allografts increased with BRAFi+MEKi treatment. Combining BRAFi+MEKi with anti-PD-L1 and anti-CTLA-4 treatment decreased CD133+ cells more effectively than either therapy alone, and resulted in a T cell-dependent survival benefit of mice with orthotopic BRAF V600E-mutated high-grade glioma. Combination of BRAFi+MEKi with immune checkpoint inhibition should be further explored as a viable option to prevent tumor rebound and therapy resistance in patients with BRAF V600E-mutated glioma.
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine , Raleigh, NC , USA
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Nasajpour E, Lyle G, Lancero H, Garcia C, Learned K, Gibson E, Tran C, Schouten T, Vogel H, Mahaney K, Prolo L, Vaske O, Grant G, Petritsch C. EXTH-96. BIOPROCESSING OF SURGICAL PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR SPECIMENS FOR GENOME-GUIDED PERSONALIZED DRUG TESTING. Neuro Oncol 2022. [PMCID: PMC9661144 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac209.894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Novel treatment approaches for pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors are urgently needed. A lack of patient-derived tumor cells impedes progress towards developing such new therapies. We intended to overcome this challenge by establishing methods to create a biorepository of viable single cell suspensions of pediatric brain tumor surgical specimens. Quantitative and qualitative comparisons of tissue processing strategies were performed to preserve viability of heterogeneous tumor and immune cells. Novel drug targets were identified by analyzing pathways affected by RNA transcripts that are highly expressed (outliers) in a patients’ tumor; outliers for each patient were determined by RNA-seq data from individual patients’ tumors compared with a compendium of 12,747 pediatric and adult samples harmonized by the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative at the UCSC Genomics Institute. The predicted anti-tumor efficacy of small molecule inhibitors of the outlier pathways was tested in cell viability assays against short-term cultured cells from matched patients. Successful tissue collection required obtaining informed consent, standard operating procedures, and sample recording using a Laboratory Inventory Management Software (LIMS). Since 2020 we have banked 67 pediatric CNS brain tumor specimens at Stanford. Amongst those, 51 cases yielded sufficient tissue for RNA-seq and cryoprotection. The most common tumor histology was low-grade glioma (LGG, 26 of 67), the majority of which were pilocytic astrocytoma (18 of 26). The second and third most common tumor types are embryonal tumors (6 medulloblastoma, 3 AT/RT) and ependymoma (4), respectively. We identified significant differences in cell viability with different preservation media. An outlier pathway previously not implicated in LGG was identified and sensitivity to a small molecule inhibitor of this outlier pathway was demonstrated. Taken together, we established feasibility for validating therapeutic vulnerabilities identified by a genome-guided approach in short-term cultures from surgical specimens. This works facilitates the rapid development of personalized CNS tumor treatment.
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- Emon Nasajpour
- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- University of California Santa Cruz , Santa Cruz , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Stanford , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine , Palo Alto , USA
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- University of California Santa Cruz , Santa Cruz , USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine , Raleigh, NC , USA
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Rubery MS, Ose N, Schneider M, Moore AS, Carrera J, Mariscal E, Ayers J, Bell P, Mackinnon A, Bradley D, Landen OL, Thompson N, Carpenter A, Winters S, Ehrlich B, Sarginson T, Rendon A, Liebman J, Johnson K, Merril D, Grant G, Shingleton N, Taylor A, Ruchonnet G, Stanley J, Cohen M, Kohut T, Issavi R, Norris J, Wright J, Stevers J, Masters N, Latray D, Kilkenny J, Stolte WC, Conlon CS, Troussel P, Villette B, Emprin B, Wrobel R, Lejars A, Chaleil A, Bridou F, Delmotte F. A 2-4 keV multilayer mirrored channel for the NIF Dante system. Rev Sci Instrum 2022; 93:113502. [PMID: 36461505 DOI: 10.1063/5.0101695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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During inertial confinement fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a capsule filled with deuterium and tritium (DT) gas, surrounded by a DT ice layer and a high-density carbon ablator, is driven to the temperature and densities required to initiate fusion. In the indirect method, 2 MJ of NIF laser light heats the inside of a gold hohlraum to a radiation temperature of 300 eV; thermal x rays from the hohlraum interior couple to the capsule and create a central hotspot at tens of millions degrees Kelvin and a density of 100-200 g/cm3. During the laser interaction with the gold wall, m-band x rays are produced at ∼2.5 keV; these can penetrate into the capsule and preheat the ablator and DT fuel. Preheat can impact instability growth rates in the ablation front and at the fuel-ablator interface. Monitoring the hohlraum x-ray spectrum throughout the implosion is, therefore, critical; for this purpose, a Multilayer Mirror (MLM) with flat response in the 2-4 keV range has been installed in the NIF 37° Dante calorimeter. Precision engineering and x-ray calibration of components mean the channel will report 2-4 keV spectral power with an uncertainty of ±8.7%.
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- M S Rubery
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P. O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551-0808, USA
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- General Atomics, San Diego, California 92121, USA
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- MSTS, Mission Support and Test Services LLC, Livermore, California 94550-9239, USA
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- MSTS, Mission Support and Test Services LLC, Livermore, California 94550-9239, USA
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- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
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- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
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- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
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- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
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- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
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- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), DAM, DIF, F-91297 Arpajon, France
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- Laboratoire Charles Fabry, 2, Av. Augustin Fresnel, 91127 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire Charles Fabry, 2, Av. Augustin Fresnel, 91127 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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Lazaridis C, Ajith A, Mansour A, Okonkwo DO, Diaz-Arrastia R, Mayampurath A, Arrastia RD, Temkin N, Moore C, Shutter L, Madden C, Andaluz N, Okonkwo D, Chesnut R, Bullock R, McGregor J, Grant G, Shapiro M, Weaver M, LeRoux P, Jallo J. Prediction of Intracranial Hypertension and Brain Tissue Hypoxia Utilizing High-Resolution Data from the BOOST-II Clinical Trial. Neurotrauma Rep 2022; 3:473-478. [PMID: 36337077 PMCID: PMC9622207 DOI: 10.1089/neur.2022.0055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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The current approach to intracranial hypertension and brain tissue hypoxia is reactive, based on fixed thresholds. We used statistical machine learning on high-frequency intracranial pressure (ICP) and partial brain tissue oxygen tension (PbtO2) data obtained from the BOOST-II trial with the goal of constructing robust quantitative models to predict ICP/PbtO2 crises. We derived the following machine learning models: logistic regression (LR), elastic net, and random forest. We split the data set into 70–30% for training and testing and utilized a discrete-time survival analysis framework and 5-fold hyperparameter optimization strategy for all models. We compared model performances on discrimination between events and non-events of increased ICP or low PbtO2 with the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve. We further analyzed clinical utility through a decision curve analysis (DCA). When considering discrimination, the number of features, and interpretability, we identified the RF model that combined the most recent ICP reading, episode number, and longitudinal trends over the preceding 30 min as the best performing for predicting ICP crisis events within the next 30 min (AUC 0.78). For PbtO2, the LR model utilizing the most recent reading, episode number, and longitudinal trends over the preceding 30 min was the best performing (AUC, 0.84). The DCA showed clinical usefulness for wide risk of thresholds for both ICP and PbtO2 predictions. Acceptable alerting thresholds could range from 20% to 80% depending on a patient-specific assessment of the benefit-risk ratio of a given intervention in response to the alert.
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- Christos Lazaridis
- Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Chicago Medical Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Chicago Medical Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Hersh DS, Martin JE, Bristol RE, Browd SR, Grant G, Gupta N, Hankinson TC, Jackson EM, Kestle JRW, Krieger MD, Kulkarni AV, Madura CJ, Pindrik J, Pollack IF, Raskin JS, Riva-Cambrin J, Rozzelle CJ, Smith JL, Wellons JC. Hydrocephalus surveillance following CSF diversion: a modified Delphi study. J Neurosurg Pediatr 2022; 30:1-11. [PMID: 35901763 DOI: 10.3171/2022.5.peds22116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Long-term follow-up is often recommended for patients with hydrocephalus, but the frequency of clinical follow-up, timing and modality of imaging, and duration of surveillance have not been clearly defined. Here, the authors used the modified Delphi method to identify areas of consensus regarding the modality, frequency, and duration of hydrocephalus surveillance following surgical treatment. METHODS Pediatric neurosurgeons serving as institutional liaisons to the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network (HCRN), or its implementation/quality improvement arm (HCRNq), were invited to participate in this modified Delphi study. Thirty-seven consensus statements were generated and distributed via an anonymous electronic survey, with responses structured as a 4-point Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree). A subsequent, virtual meeting offered the opportunity for open discussion and modification of the statements in an effort to reach consensus (defined as ≥ 80% agreement or disagreement). RESULTS Nineteen pediatric neurosurgeons participated in the first round, after which 15 statements reached consensus. During the second round, 14 participants met virtually for review and discussion. Some statements were modified and 2 statements were combined, resulting in a total of 36 statements. At the conclusion of the session, consensus was achieved for 17 statements regarding the following: 1) the role of standardization; 2) preferred imaging modalities; 3) postoperative follow-up after shunt surgery (subdivided into immediate postoperative imaging, delayed postoperative imaging, routine clinical surveillance, and routine radiological surveillance); and 4) postoperative follow-up after an endoscopic third ventriculostomy. Consensus could not be achieved for 19 statements. CONCLUSIONS Using the modified Delphi method, 17 consensus statements were developed with respect to both clinical and radiological follow-up after a shunt or endoscopic third ventriculostomy. The frequency, modality, and duration of surveillance were addressed, highlighting areas in which no clear data exist to guide clinical practice. Although further studies are needed to evaluate the clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of hydrocephalus surveillance, the current study provides a framework to guide future efforts to develop standardized clinical protocols for the postoperative surveillance of patients with hydrocephalus. Ultimately, the standardization of hydrocephalus surveillance has the potential to improve patient care as well as optimize the use of healthcare resources.
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- David S Hersh
- 1Division of Neurosurgery, Connecticut Children's, Hartford
- 2Department of Surgery, UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut
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- 1Division of Neurosurgery, Connecticut Children's, Hartford
- 2Department of Surgery, UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut
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- 3Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona
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- 4Department of Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington
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- 5Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- 6Departments of Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California
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- 7Departments of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine/Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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- 8Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- 9Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City
- 10Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- 11Division of Neurological Surgery, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- 12Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- 13Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 14Section of Neurosurgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosciences, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan
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- 15Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus
- 16Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
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- 17Department of Neurosurgery, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- 18Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago
- 19Department of Neurosurgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- 20Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- 21Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children's of Alabama, Birmingham
- 22Department of Neurosurgery, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama
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- 23Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine, Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent Ascension, Indianapolis, Indiana; and
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- 24Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Majzner RG, Mahdi J, Ramakrishna S, Patel S, Chinnasamy H, Yeom K, Schultz L, Barsan V, Richards R, Campen C, Reschke A, Toland AMS, Baggott C, Mavroukakis S, Egeler E, Moon J, Jacobs A, Yamabe-Kwong K, Rasmussen L, Nie E, Green S, Kunicki M, Fujimoto M, Ehlinger Z, Reynolds W, Prabhu S, Warren KE, Cornell T, Partap S, Fisher P, Grant G, Vogel H, Sahaf B, Davis K, Feldman S, Monje M, Mackall CL. Abstract CT001: Major tumor regressions in H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline glioma (DMG) following sequential intravenous (IV) and intracerebroventricular (ICV) delivery of GD2-CAR T cells. Cancer Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-ct001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: H3K27M-mutated DMGs are universally lethal central nervous system tumors that express high levels of the disialoganglioside GD2. IV administered GD2-CAR T cells (GD2-CART) regress DMG in preclinical models, and locoregionally delivered CARs demonstrate enhanced activity in xenograft models of brain tumors.
Methods: NCT04196413 is a 3+3 Phase I dose escalation trial testing GD2-CART in patients with H3K27M DMG, with dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) considered independently for DIPG and spinal DMG (sDMG). Arm A tested escalating doses of IV GD2-CART (DL1: 1e6 GD2-CART/kg; DL2=3e6 GD2-CART/kg) following lymphodepletion (LD). After the DLT period, patients with clinical and/or radiographic benefit were eligible for subsequent ICV GD2-CART (10-30e6 GD2-CART) administered via Ommaya catheter without LD every 4-8 weeks for a maximum of 12 doses. We previously reported early results from 4 patients treated on DL1, which demonstrated clinical activity and manageable toxicity. Here we provide updated results for DL1 and DL2.
Results: Thirteen subjects were enrolled and 11 treated [n=4 DL1 (3 DIPG/1 sDMG); n=9 DL2 (7 DIPG/2 sDMG)]. Two subjects were removed prior to treatment due to rapid progression. No DLTs were observed on DL1. Three subjects experienced DLT on DL2 (2 DIPG/1 sDMG) due to grade 4 cytokine release syndrome (CRS), successfully managed with tocilizumab, anakinra, and corticosteroids. CRS occurred earlier on DL2 vs. DL1 (Day 3 vs 7). On both dose levels, all subjects exhibited transient symptoms related to on-tumor inflammation, termed Tumor Inflammation-Associated Neurotoxicity (TIAN), which was successfully managed with anakinra and, in some cases, CSF drainage and dexamethasone. No DLT due to TIAN has occurred.
Ten patients have had adequate follow-up to assess benefit. Nine experienced radiographic and/or clinical benefit after IV infusion, and they received subsequent ICV GD2-CART infusions (median= 4 ICV infusions/pt, range 1-6). ICV infusions were not associated with high-grade CRS, although some subjects developed transient fever, headache, meningismus, nausea, and/or vomiting, and several subjects developed TIAN. Four patients continue to receive ICV infusions on study and have experienced continued clinical and radiographic benefit at 11+, 9.5+, 8+ and 7+ months following enrollment. A 31-year-old with sDMG has experienced a near-complete (>95%) reduction in tumor volume and a 17-year-old with DIPG experienced a near-complete (>98%) reduction in volume of a pontine tumor.
Conclusions: IV treatment of DIPG and sDMG with GD2-CART is safe at a dose of 1e6/kg, but associated with unacceptable rates of high-grade CRS at 3e6/kg. ICV GD2-CART without LD, administered following a previous course of IV GD2-CART with LD, has been well tolerated and has mediated impressive sustained clinical benefit in some patients with DIPG/sDMG. Given these findings, we are launching a new arm to assess safety and activity and to define the recommended phase 2 dose for ICV delivery of GD2-CART without LD. Patients are eligible for up to 12 ICV infusions of GD2-CART administered every 4-6 weeks. Clinical benefit will be formally assessed using patient-reported outcomes. GD2-CART has the potential to transform therapy for patients with H3K27M+ DIPG/sDMG.
Citation Format: Robbie G. Majzner, Jasia Mahdi, Sneha Ramakrishna, Shabnum Patel, Harshini Chinnasamy, Kristen Yeom, Liora Schultz, Valentin Barsan, Rebecca Richards, Cynthia Campen, Agnes Reschke, Angus Martin Shaw Toland, Christina Baggott, Sharon Mavroukakis, Emily Egeler, Jennifer Moon, Ashley Jacobs, Karen Yamabe-Kwong, Lindsey Rasmussen, Esther Nie, Sean Green, Michael Kunicki, Michelle Fujimoto, Zach Ehlinger, Warren Reynolds, Snehit Prabhu, Katherine E. Warren, Tim Cornell, Sonia Partap, Paul Fisher, Gerald Grant, Hannes Vogel, Bita Sahaf, Kara Davis, Steven Feldman, Michelle Monje, Crystal L. Mackall. Major tumor regressions in H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline glioma (DMG) following sequential intravenous (IV) and intracerebroventricular (ICV) delivery of GD2-CAR T cells [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr CT001.
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- 1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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Monje M, Majzner R, Mahdi J, Ramakrishna S, Patel S, Chinnasamy H, Yeom K, Schultz L, Barsan V, Richards R, Campen C, Reschke A, Toland AM, Baggott C, Mavroukakis S, Egeler E, Moon J, Jacobs A, Yamabe-Kwong K, Rasmussen L, Nie E, Green S, Kunicki M, Fujimoto M, Ehlinger Z, Reynolds W, Prabhu S, Warren KE, Cornell T, Partap S, Fisher P, Grant G, Vogel H, Sahaf B, Davis K, Feldman S, Mackall C. DIPG-15. Major tumor regressions in H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline glioma (DMG) following sequential intravenous (IV) and intracerebroventricular (ICV) delivery of GD2-CAR T-cells. Neuro Oncol 2022. [PMCID: PMC9164854 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac079.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND: H3K27M-mutated DMGs express high levels of the disialoganglioside GD2 and GD2-CAR T-cells (GD2-CART) regress DMG in preclinical models. METHODS: NCT04196413 is a 3 + 3 Phase I dose escalation trial testing GD2-CART in patients with biopsy-proved H3K27M DMG, with dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) considered independently for DIPG and spinal DMG (sDMG). Arm A tested escalating doses of IV GD2-CART (DL1=1e6 GD2-CART/kg; DL2=3e6 GD2-CART/kg) following lymphodepletion (LD). After the DLT period, patients with clinical and/or radiographic benefit were eligible for subsequent ICV GD2-CART infusions (10-30e6 GD2-CART) administered via Ommaya without LD. RESULTS: Twelve subjects were treated after standard radiotherapy, 7 of whom began treatment at the time of progression [n=4 DL1 (3 DIPG/1 sDMG); n=8 DL2 (6 DIPG/2 sDMG)]. No DLTs were observed on DL1. Three subjects experienced DLT on DL2 (2 DIPG/1 sDMG) due to grade-4 cytokine release syndrome (CRS). On both dose levels, all subjects exhibited transient symptoms related to on-tumor inflammation, termed Tumor Inflammation-Associated Neurotoxicity (TIAN); no DLT due to TIAN has occurred. Ten subjects experienced radiographic and/or clinical benefit after IV infusion and received subsequent ICV infusions (median=4 ICV infusions/pt, range=1-7). ICV infusions were not associated with high-grade CRS. Four patients continue to receive ICV infusions on study and have experienced continued clinical and radiographic benefit, currently 7-11 months following enrollment. Two patients (one sDMG, one DIPG) have experienced near-complete (>95%) tumor volume reduction. CONCLUSIONS: IV treatment of DIPG and sDMG with GD2-CART is safe at a dose of 1e6/kg, but associated with frequent high-grade CRS at 3e6/kg. ICV GD2-CART has been well tolerated and has mediated impressive sustained clinical benefit in some patients with DIPG/sDMG. Given these findings, we are launching a new arm to assess safety and activity and to define the recommended phase 2 dose for ICV delivery of GD2-CART without LD.
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- Stanford University , Stanford, CA , USA
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- Stanford University , Stanford, CA , USA
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- Stanford University , Stanford, CA , USA
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- Stanford University , Stanford, CA , USA
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Sidpra J, Marcus AP, Löbel U, Toescu S, Yecies D, Grant G, Yeom K, Mirsky DM, Marcus HJ, Aquilina K, Mankad K. IMG-02. Improved prediction of postoperative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome using an artificial neural network. Neuro Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac079.279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND: Postoperative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome (pCMS) is a common but severe complication which may arise following the resection of posterior fossa tumours in children. Two previous studies have aimed to preoperatively predict pCMS, with varying results. In this work, we examine the generalisation of these models and determine if pCMS can be predicted more accurately using an artificial neural network (ANN). METHODS: An overview of reviews was performed to identify risk factors for pCMS, and a retrospective dataset collected as per these defined risk factors from children undergoing resection of primary posterior fossa tumours. The ANN was trained on this dataset and its performance evaluated in comparison to logistic regression and other predictive indices via analysis of receiver operator characteristic curves. Area under the curve (AUC) and accuracy were calculated and compared using a Wilcoxon signed rank test, with p<0.05 considered statistically significant. RESULTS: 204 children were included, of whom 80 developed pCMS. The performance of the ANN (AUC 0.949; accuracy 90.9%) exceeded that of logistic regression (p<0.05) and both external models (p<0.001). CONCLUSION: Using an ANN, we show improved prediction of pCMS in comparison to previous models and conventional methods.
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- Jai Sidpra
- Developmental Biology and Cancer Section, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N1EH, UK , London , United Kingdom
- Department of Neuroradiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK , London , United Kingdom
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- Department of Brain Sciences and Computing, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2BU, UK , London , United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK , London , United Kingdom
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- artment of Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK , London , United Kingdom
- Developmental Imaging and Biophysics Section, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N1EH, UK , London , United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford, CA , USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford, CA , USA
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford, CA , USA
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- Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine , Aurora, CO , USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, WC1N 3BG, UK , London , United Kingdom
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- Developmental Biology and Cancer Section, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N1EH, UK , London , United Kingdom
- artment of Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK , London , United Kingdom
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- Developmental Biology and Cancer Section, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N1EH, UK , London , United Kingdom
- Department of Neuroradiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK , London , United Kingdom
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Trudeau T, Prince E, Chatain O, Chee K, Jackson E, Limbrick D, Naftel R, Feldstein N, Grant G, Ginn K, Niazi T, Smith A, Kilburn L, Chern J, Drapeau A, Lam S, Johnston J, Dudley R, Staulcup S, Hankinson T. RARE-24. The use of novel in vitro models to study adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma disease biology and drug response. Neuro Oncol 2022. [PMCID: PMC9165211 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac079.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND: Challenges around the design and investigation of cell culture models of adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma (ACP) have arisen from the cellular heterogeneity of these tumors, with populations that harbor disparate requirements in culture. Novel approaches to in vitro modeling of ACP are needed. METHODS: Intraoperatively collected tumor specimens were mechanically digested and plated under conditions tailored to the cell population of interest. ACP tumor-derived fibroblasts and epithelial cells were isolated using serum-containing and keratinocyte-specific media respectively. ACP-derived epithelial cells were immortalized via SV40 virus transfection and puromycin treatment for stable cell-line generation. Cell line validation included immunofluorescence with markers appropriate for the cell population of interest. RNA sequencing of cell lines was compared to ACP transcriptome reference data. Cell typing was conducted using short tandem repeat sequencing. RESULTS: ACP fibroblasts and ACP epithelial cells maintained spindle-like and cobblestone morphologies respectively, even after 4 passages. Immunofluorescence staining confirmed high levels of Vimentin expression in ACP-derived fibroblasts, and panCK and B-catenin in ACP-derived epithelial cells. Point mutation in exon 3 of the CTNNB1 gene was identified in ACP-derived epithelial cells. CONCLUSION: Initial limits related to cell line development in ACP may be addressed through the isolation and culture-specific ACP cell populations. This experience demonstrates the maintenance of validated markers of the cell populations of interest ex vivo. While preliminary, such cell lines offer promise as tools for the identification and study of potential therapeutic vulnerabilities in ACP.
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- Tammy Trudeau
- University of Colorado, School of Medicine , Aurora, CO , USA
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- University of Colorado, School of Medicine , Aurora, CO , USA
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- University of Colorado, School of Medicine , Aurora, CO , USA
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- University of Colorado, School of Medicine , Aurora, CO , USA
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- Johns Hopkins Medicine, Neurosurgery Department , Baltimore, MD , USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis , MO , USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center , Nashville, TN , USA
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York , NY , USA
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- Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City , MO , USA
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- Nicklaus Children's Hospital , Miami, FL , USA
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- Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children , Orlando, FL , USA
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- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta , Atlanta, GA , USA
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- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Hospital of Chicago , Chicago, IL , USA
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- Montreal Children's Hospital , Montreal , Canada
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- University of Colorado, School of Medicine , Aurora, CO , USA
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Hawryluk GW, Selph S, Lumba-Brown A, Totten AM, Ghajar J, Aarabi B, Ecklund J, Shackelford S, Adams B, Adelson D, Armonda RA, Benjamin J, Boone D, Brody D, Dengler B, Figaji A, Grant G, Harris O, Hoffer A, Kitigawa R, Latham K, Neal C, Okonkwo DO, Pannell D, Rosenfeld JV, Rosenthal G, Rubiano A, Stein DM, Stippler M, Talbot M, Valadka A, Wright DW, Davis S, Bell R. Rationale and Methods for Updated Guidelines for the Management of Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurotrauma Rep 2022; 3:240-247. [PMID: 35919507 PMCID: PMC9279118 DOI: 10.1089/neur.2022.0008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) affects civilian and military populations resulting in significant morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. No up-to-date and evidence-based guidelines exist to assist modern medical and surgical management of these complex injuries. A preliminary literature search revealed a need for updated guidelines, supported by the Brain Trauma Foundation. Methodologists experienced in TBI guidelines were recruited to support project development alongside two cochairs and a diverse steering committee. An expert multi-disciplinary workgroup was established and vetted to inform key clinical questions, to perform an evidence review and the development of recommendations relevant to pTBI. The methodological approach for the project was finalized. The development of up-to-date evidence- and consensus-based clinical care guidelines and algorithms for pTBI will provide critical guidance to care providers in the pre-hospital and emergent, medical, and surgical settings.
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- Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Stanford Neuroscience Health Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- University of Maryland Neurosurgery Associates, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Inova Neuroscience and Spine Institute, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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- Joint Trauma System, Department of Defense, Center of Excellence for Trauma, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Independent Duty Medical Technician (IDMT), Hurlburt Field, Florida, USA
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- Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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- Anaethesia and Critical Care, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- McGovern Medical School, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Adult Outpatient Behavioral Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- INUB-Meditech Research Group, Neuroscience Institute, Universidad El Bosque, Bogota, Colombia
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Royal Canadian Medical Service, Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Forces Base Borden, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Bouchard HC, Sun D, Dennis EL, Newsome MR, Disner SG, Elman J, Silva A, Velez C, Irimia A, Davenport ND, Sponheim SR, Franz CE, Kremen WS, Coleman MJ, Williams MW, Geuze E, Koerte IK, Shenton ME, Adamson MM, Coimbra R, Grant G, Shutter L, George MS, Zafonte RD, McAllister TW, Stein MB, Thompson PM, Wilde EA, Tate DF, Sotiras A, Morey RA. Age-dependent white matter disruptions after military traumatic brain injury: Multivariate analysis results from ENIGMA brain injury. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 43:2653-2667. [PMID: 35289463 PMCID: PMC9057089 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Revised: 12/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Mild Traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a signature wound in military personnel, and repetitive mTBI has been linked to age-related neurogenerative disorders that affect white matter (WM) in the brain. However, findings of injury to specific WM tracts have been variable and inconsistent. This may be due to the heterogeneity of mechanisms, etiology, and comorbid disorders related to mTBI. Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a data-driven approach that detects covarying patterns (components) within high-dimensional data. We applied NMF to diffusion imaging data from military Veterans with and without a self-reported TBI history. NMF identified 12 independent components derived from fractional anisotropy (FA) in a large dataset (n = 1,475) gathered through the ENIGMA (Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis) Military Brain Injury working group. Regressions were used to examine TBI- and mTBI-related associations in NMF-derived components while adjusting for age, sex, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and data acquisition site/scanner. We found significantly stronger age-dependent effects of lower FA in Veterans with TBI than Veterans without in four components (q < 0.05), which are spatially unconstrained by traditionally defined WM tracts. One component, occupying the most peripheral location, exhibited significantly stronger age-dependent differences in Veterans with mTBI. We found NMF to be powerful and effective in detecting covarying patterns of FA associated with mTBI by applying standard parametric regression modeling. Our results highlight patterns of WM alteration that are differentially affected by TBI and mTBI in younger compared to older military Veterans.
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- Heather C. Bouchard
- Duke‐UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis CenterDuke UniversityDurhamNorth CarolinaUSA
- Mid‐Atlantic Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical CenterDurham VA Medical CenterDurhamNorth CarolinaUSA
- Center for Brain, Biology & BehaviorUniversity of Nebraska‐LincolnLincolnNebraskaUSA
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- Duke‐UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis CenterDuke UniversityDurhamNorth CarolinaUSA
- Mid‐Atlantic Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical CenterDurham VA Medical CenterDurhamNorth CarolinaUSA
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- Department of NeurologyUniversity of UtahSalt Lake CityUtahUSA
- Department of RadiologyStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical CenterHoustonTexasUSA
- H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationBaylor College of MedicineHoustonTexasUSA
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- Minneapolis VA Health Care SystemMinneapolisMinnesotaUSA
- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of Minnesota Medical SchoolMinneapolisMinnesotaUSA
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
- Center for Behavior Genetics of AgingUniversity of California, San DiegoSan DiegoCaliforniaUSA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging LaboratoryBrigham & Women's HospitalBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of NeurologyUniversity of UtahSalt Lake CityUtahUSA
- George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical CenterSalt Lake CityUtahUSA
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- Leonard Davis School of GerontologyUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of EngineeringUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Minneapolis VA Health Care SystemMinneapolisMinnesotaUSA
- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of Minnesota Medical SchoolMinneapolisMinnesotaUSA
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- Minneapolis VA Health Care SystemMinneapolisMinnesotaUSA
- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of Minnesota Medical SchoolMinneapolisMinnesotaUSA
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
- Center for Behavior Genetics of AgingUniversity of California, San DiegoSan DiegoCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
- Center for Behavior Genetics of AgingUniversity of California, San DiegoSan DiegoCaliforniaUSA
- Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental HealthVA San Diego Healthcare SystemSan DiegoCaliforniaUSA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging LaboratoryBrigham & Women's HospitalBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical CenterHoustonTexasUSA
- Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesBaylor College of MedicineHoustonTexasUSA
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity Medical CenterUtrechtNetherlands
- Brain Research & Innovation CentreMinistry of DefenceUtrechtNetherlands
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging LaboratoryBrigham & Women's HospitalBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging LaboratoryBrigham & Women's HospitalBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Rehabilitation ServiceVA Palo AltoPalo AltoCaliforniaUSA
- NeurosurgeryStanford School of MedicineStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of SurgeryUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of NeurosurgeryStanford University Medical CenterPalo AltoCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Critical Care MedicineUniversity of Pittsburgh School of MedicinePittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of PsychiatryMedical University of South CarolinaCharlestonSouth CarolinaUSA
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- Spaulding Rehabilitation HospitalMassachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
- Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity ScienceUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics InstituteKeck School of Medicine of USCMarina del ReyCaliforniaUSA
- Department of Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Radiology, Engineering, and OphthalmologyUniversity of Southern California (USC), Los AngelesCaliforniaUSA
- Department of PediatricsUSCLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
- Department of PsychiatryUSCLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
- Department of RadiologyUSCLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
- Department of EngineeringUSCLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
- Department of OphthalmologyUSCLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
- Department of Radiology and Institute for Informatics, School of MedicineWashington University St. LouisSt. LouisMissouriUSA
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- Department of NeurologyUniversity of UtahSalt Lake CityUtahUSA
- Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical CenterHoustonTexasUSA
- George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical CenterSalt Lake CityUtahUSA
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- Department of NeurologyUniversity of UtahSalt Lake CityUtahUSA
- George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical CenterSalt Lake CityUtahUSA
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- Department of Radiology and Institute for Informatics, School of MedicineWashington University St. LouisSt. LouisMissouriUSA
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- Duke‐UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis CenterDuke UniversityDurhamNorth CarolinaUSA
- Mid‐Atlantic Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical CenterDurham VA Medical CenterDurhamNorth CarolinaUSA
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Zhou Z, Li X, Domel AG, Dennis EL, Georgiadis M, Liu Y, Raymond SJ, Grant G, Kleiven S, Camarillo D, Zeineh M. The Presence of the Temporal Horn Exacerbates the Vulnerability of Hippocampus During Head Impacts. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:754344. [PMID: 35392406 PMCID: PMC8980591 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.754344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Hippocampal injury is common in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, but the underlying pathogenesis remains elusive. In this study, we hypothesize that the presence of the adjacent fluid-containing temporal horn exacerbates the biomechanical vulnerability of the hippocampus. Two finite element models of the human head were used to investigate this hypothesis, one with and one without the temporal horn, and both including a detailed hippocampal subfield delineation. A fluid-structure interaction coupling approach was used to simulate the brain-ventricle interface, in which the intraventricular cerebrospinal fluid was represented by an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian multi-material formation to account for its fluid behavior. By comparing the response of these two models under identical loadings, the model that included the temporal horn predicted increased magnitudes of strain and strain rate in the hippocampus with respect to its counterpart without the temporal horn. This specifically affected cornu ammonis (CA) 1 (CA1), CA2/3, hippocampal tail, subiculum, and the adjacent amygdala and ventral diencephalon. These computational results suggest that the presence of the temporal horn exacerbate the vulnerability of the hippocampus, highlighting the mechanobiological dependency of the hippocampus on the temporal horn.
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- Zhou Zhou
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- *Correspondence: Zhou Zhou, ; Michael Zeineh,
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- Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- TBI and Concussion Center, Department of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Department of Neurology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- *Correspondence: Zhou Zhou, ; Michael Zeineh,
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Majzner RG, Ramakrishna S, Yeom KW, Patel S, Chinnasamy H, Schultz LM, Richards RM, Jiang L, Barsan V, Mancusi R, Geraghty AC, Good Z, Mochizuki AY, Gillespie SM, Toland AMS, Mahdi J, Reschke A, Nie EH, Chau IJ, Rotiroti MC, Mount CW, Baggott C, Mavroukakis S, Egeler E, Moon J, Erickson C, Green S, Kunicki M, Fujimoto M, Ehlinger Z, Reynolds W, Kurra S, Warren KE, Prabhu S, Vogel H, Rasmussen L, Cornell TT, Partap S, Fisher PG, Campen CJ, Filbin MG, Grant G, Sahaf B, Davis KL, Feldman SA, Mackall CL, Monje M. GD2-CAR T cell therapy for H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas. Nature 2022; 603:934-941. [PMID: 35130560 PMCID: PMC8967714 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04489-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 330] [Impact Index Per Article: 165.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and other H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) are universally lethal paediatric tumours of the central nervous system1. We have previously shown that the disialoganglioside GD2 is highly expressed on H3K27M-mutated glioma cells and have demonstrated promising preclinical efficacy of GD2-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells2, providing the rationale for a first-in-human phase I clinical trial (NCT04196413). Because CAR T cell-induced brainstem inflammation can result in obstructive hydrocephalus, increased intracranial pressure and dangerous tissue shifts, neurocritical care precautions were incorporated. Here we present the clinical experience from the first four patients with H3K27M-mutated DIPG or spinal cord DMG treated with GD2-CAR T cells at dose level 1 (1 × 106 GD2-CAR T cells per kg administered intravenously). Patients who exhibited clinical benefit were eligible for subsequent GD2-CAR T cell infusions administered intracerebroventricularly3. Toxicity was largely related to the location of the tumour and was reversible with intensive supportive care. On-target, off-tumour toxicity was not observed. Three of four patients exhibited clinical and radiographic improvement. Pro-inflammatory cytokine levels were increased in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid. Transcriptomic analyses of 65,598 single cells from CAR T cell products and cerebrospinal fluid elucidate heterogeneity in response between participants and administration routes. These early results underscore the promise of this therapeutic approach for patients with H3K27M-mutated DIPG or spinal cord DMG.
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- Robbie G Majzner
- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. .,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. .,Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, San Francisco, CA, USA. .,Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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- Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. .,Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation & Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. .,Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. .,Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. .,Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. .,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Sidpra J, Marcus AP, Löbel U, Toescu SM, Yecies D, Grant G, Yeom K, Mirsky DM, Marcus HJ, Aquilina K, Mankad K. Improved prediction of postoperative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome using an artificial neural network. Neurooncol Adv 2022; 4:vdac003. [PMID: 35233531 PMCID: PMC8882257 DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdac003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Postoperative paediatric cerebellar mutism syndrome (pCMS) is a common but severe complication which may arise following the resection of posterior fossa tumours in children. Two previous studies have aimed to preoperatively predict pCMS, with varying results. In this work, we examine the generalisation of these models and determine if pCMS can be predicted more accurately using an artificial neural network (ANN).
Methods
An overview of reviews was performed to identify risk factors for pCMS, and a retrospective dataset collected as per these defined risk factors from children undergoing resection of primary posterior fossa tumours. The ANN was trained on this dataset and its performance evaluated in comparison to logistic regression and other predictive indices via analysis of receiver operator characteristic curves. Area under the curve (AUC) and accuracy were calculated and compared using a Wilcoxon signed rank test, with p<0.05 considered statistically significant.
Results
204 children were included, of whom 80 developed pCMS. The performance of the ANN (AUC 0.949; accuracy 90.9%) exceeded that of logistic regression (p<0.05) and both external models (p<0.001).
Conclusion
Using an ANN, we show improved prediction of pCMS in comparison to previous models and conventional methods.
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- Jai Sidpra
- University College London Medical School, London, WC1E 6DE, UK
- Developmental Biology and Cancer Section, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
- Department of Neuroradiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK
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- Department of Brain Sciences and Computing, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2BU, UK
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK
- Developmental Imaging and Biophysics Section, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford, CA 94304, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford, CA 94304, USA
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford, CA 94304, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, WC1N 3BG, UK
- Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Developmental Biology and Cancer Section, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
- Department of Neurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK
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- Developmental Biology and Cancer Section, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
- Department of Neuroradiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N 3JH, UK
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Hwang EI, Sayour EJ, Flores CT, Grant G, Wechsler-Reya R, Hoang-Minh LB, Kieran MW, Salcido J, Prins RM, Figg JW, Platten M, Candelario KM, Hale PG, Blatt JE, Governale LS, Okada H, Mitchell DA, Pollack IF. The current landscape of immunotherapy for pediatric brain tumors. Nat Cancer 2022; 3:11-24. [PMID: 35121998 DOI: 10.1038/s43018-021-00319-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Pediatric central nervous system tumors are the most common solid malignancies in childhood, and aggressive therapy often leads to long-term sequelae in survivors, making these tumors challenging to treat. Immunotherapy has revolutionized prospects for many cancer types in adults, but the intrinsic complexity of treating pediatric patients and the scarcity of clinical studies of children to inform effective approaches have hampered the development of effective immunotherapies in pediatric settings. Here, we review recent advances and ongoing challenges in pediatric brain cancer immunotherapy, as well as considerations for efficient clinical translation of efficacious immunotherapies into pediatric settings.
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- Eugene I Hwang
- Division of Oncology, Brain Tumor Institute, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Tumor Initiation & Maintenance Program, NCI-Designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Departments of Neurosurgery and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, MCTN, Heidelberg University and CCU Brain Tumor Immunology, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Children's Brain Trust, Coral Springs, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Sato R, Ohmori K, Umetsu M, Takao M, Tano M, Grant G, Porter B, Bet A, Terasaki T, Uchida Y. An Atlas of the Quantitative Protein Expression of Anti-Epileptic-Drug Transporters, Metabolizing Enzymes and Tight Junctions at the Blood-Brain Barrier in Epileptic Patients. Pharmaceutics 2021; 13:pharmaceutics13122122. [PMID: 34959403 PMCID: PMC8708024 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13122122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Revised: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The purpose of the present study was to quantitatively elucidate the levels of protein expression of anti-epileptic-drug (AED) transporters, metabolizing enzymes and tight junction molecules at the blood–brain barrier (BBB) in the focal site of epilepsy patients using accurate SWATH (sequential window acquisition of all theoretical fragment ion spectra) proteomics. Brain capillaries were isolated from focal sites in six epilepsy patients and five normal brains; tryptic digests were produced and subjected to SWATH analysis. MDR1 and BCRP were significantly downregulated in the epilepsy group compared to the normal group. Out of 16 AED-metabolizing enzymes detected, the protein expression levels of GSTP1, GSTO1, CYP2E1, ALDH1A1, ALDH6A1, ALDH7A1, ALDH9A1 and ADH5 were significantly 2.13-, 6.23-, 2.16-, 2.80-, 1.73-, 1.67-, 2.47- and 2.23-fold greater in the brain capillaries of epileptic patients than those of normal brains, respectively. The protein expression levels of Claudin-5, ZO-1, Catenin alpha-1, beta-1 and delta-1 were significantly lower, 1.97-, 2.51-, 2.44-, 1.90- and 1.63-fold, in the brain capillaries of epileptic patients compared to those of normal brains, respectively. Consistent with these observations, leakage of blood proteins was also observed. These results provide for a better understanding of the therapeutic effect of AEDs and molecular mechanisms of AED resistance in epileptic patients.
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- Risa Sato
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan; (R.S.); (K.O.); (M.U.); (T.T.)
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan; (R.S.); (K.O.); (M.U.); (T.T.)
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan; (R.S.); (K.O.); (M.U.); (T.T.)
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- Department of Neurology and Brain Bank, Mihara Memorial Hospital, Isesaki 372-0006, Japan; (M.T.); (M.T.)
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, National Center Hospital, Kodaira 187-8551, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Brain Bank, Mihara Memorial Hospital, Isesaki 372-0006, Japan; (M.T.); (M.T.)
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; (G.G.); (A.B.)
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- Department of Neurology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; (G.G.); (A.B.)
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan; (R.S.); (K.O.); (M.U.); (T.T.)
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan; (R.S.); (K.O.); (M.U.); (T.T.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +81-22-795-6832
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Park JW, Grossauer S, Wang W, Daynac M, Pitteri S, Monje M, Grant G, Petritsch C. EXTH-42. COMBINATION OF MAPK PATHWAY INHIBITORS AND IMMUNE CHECKPOINT BLOCKADE IN BRAF-MUTANT HIGH-GRADE GLIOMA. Neuro Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noab196.681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Despite successes, clinical MAPK pathway inhibitors show limited anti-tumor activity in the majority of patients with BRAF-mutant high-grade glioma. Because of the presence of higher fraction of CD8+ tumor-infiltrating T cells in MAPK pathway-altered glioma, we explored the possibility that combined BRAF and MEK inhibition with immune checkpoint blockade enhances anti-tumor response.
METHODS
We engineered mice to carry BRAF V600E expression and CDKN2A deletion in various hemispheric areas. We treated syngeneic tumor-bearing mice with dabrafenib, trametinib, anti-PD-L1 and anti-CTLA-4 antibodies, and analyzed the tumor immune infiltrate by high-dimensional single-cell mass cytometry (CyTOF). RNA sequencing and Gene Set Enrichment Analysis were conducted using patient-derived BRAF-mutant glioma lines upon the inhibitor treatment.
RESULTS
The transcriptome analysis demonstrated that antigen processing and presentation feature is strongly enriched upon dual MAPK pathway inhibition. Consistent with these molecular changes, dabrafenib and trametinib treatment led to dynamic changes in tumor-infiltrating immune cells, including CD8+ and CD4+ T cells. In line with this, combination of MAPK pathway and immune checkpoint inhibitors elicit a significant survival benefit over MAPK pathway inhibition alone in mice with orthotopic BRAF-mutant glioma.
CONCLUSIONS
Clinically relevant molecular targeted therapy by dabrafenib and trametinib and immune checkpoint blockade synergize in pre-clinical models.
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- First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China (People's Republic)
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Charles Chen Z, Gary A, Gupta V, Grant G, Fan RE. Optimization of a Thermal Flow Meter for Failure Management of the Shunt in Pediatric Hydrocephalus Patients . Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2021; 2021:1551-1556. [PMID: 34891580 DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Hydrocephalus patients suffer from an abnormal buildup of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in their ventricles, and there is currently no known way to cure hydrocephalus. The most prevalent treatment for managing hydrocephalus is to implant a ventriculoperitoneal shunt, which diverts excess CSF out of the brain. However, shunts are prone to failure, resulting in vague symptoms. Our patient survey results found that the lack of specificity of symptoms complicates the management of hydrocephalus in the pediatric population. The consequences include persistent mental burden on caretakers and a significant amount of unnecessary utilization of emergency healthcare resources due to the false-positive judgement of shunt failure. In order to reliably monitor shunt failures for hydrocephalus patients and their caretakers, we propose an optimized design of the thermal flow meter for precise measurements of the CSF flow rate in the shunt. The design is an implantable device which slides onto the shunt and utilizes sinusoidal heating and temperature measurements to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of flow-rate measurements by orders of magnitude.Clinical Relevance- An implantable flow meter would be transformative to allow hydrocephalus patients to monitor their shunt function at home, resulting in reduced hospital visits, reduced exposure to radiation typically required to rule out shunt failure, and reduced caretaker anxiety.
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Toescu S, Bruckert L, Jabarkheel R, Yecies D, Grant G, Mankad K, Clark C, Aquilina K, Feldman H, Travis K, Yeom K. Spatiotemporal changes in along-tract profilometry of cerebellar peduncles in cerebellar mutism syndrome. Neuro Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noab195.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Cerebellar mutism syndrome occurs in 25% of children following resection of posterior fossa tumours. Characterised by mutism, emotional lability and cerebellar motor signs, the syndrome is usually reversible over weeks to months. Its pathophysiology remains unclear, but evidence from diffusion MRI studies has implicated damage to the superior cerebellar peduncles in the development of this condition. The objective of this study was to describe the application of automated tractography of the cerebellar peduncles to provide a high-resolution spatiotemporal profile of diffusion MRI changes in cerebellar mutism syndrome.
Method
A retrospective case-control study was performed at Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University. Thirty children with midline medulloblastoma (mean age ± standard deviation 8.8 ± 3.8 years) underwent volumetric T1-weighted and diffusion MRI at four timepoints over one year. Forty-nine healthy children (9.0 ± 4.2 years), scanned at a single timepoint, were included as age- and sex-matched controls. Cerebellar mutism syndrome status was determined by contemporaneous casenote review. Automated Fibre Quantification was used to segment each subject’s cerebellar peduncles (Figure 1), and fractional anisotropy was computed at 30 nodes along each tract. A non-parametric permutation-based method was used to generate a critical cluster size and p-value for by-node ANOVA group comparisons. Z-scores for patients’ fractional anisotropy at each node were calculated based on values from controls’ corresponding nodes; these were analysed using mixed ANOVA with post-hoc false discovery rate-corrected pairwise t-tests.
Results
13 patients developed cerebellar mutism syndrome. Automated fibre segmentation successfully identified the cerebellar peduncles in the majority of participants, but was more robust at follow-up timepoints (78.7% vs. 44.7% pre-operatively). Fractional anisotropy was significantly lower in the distal regions of the left superior cerebellar peduncle pre-operatively (p=0.0137) in patients compared to controls, although patients could not be distinguished pre-operatively with respect to cerebellar mutism syndrome status (Figure 2). Post-operative reductions in fractional anisotropy in children with cerebellar mutism syndrome were highly specific to the distal left superior cerebellar peduncle, and were most pronounced at follow-up timepoints (p=0.006; Figure 3). There were no significant differences in other cerebellar peduncles, either in along-tract fractional anisotropy or Z-scores, with respect to cerebellar mutism syndrome status.
Conclusion
A novel application of an automated tool to extract diffusion MRI data along the length of the cerebellar peduncles is described in a longitudinal retrospective cohort of paediatric medulloblastoma. Changes in fractional anisotropy in the cerebellar peduncles following tumour resection are described in a heretofore unprecedented level of spatiotemporal detail. In particular, children with post-operative cerebellar mutism syndrome show changes in the distal regions of the left superior cerebellar peduncle, and these changes persist up to a year post-operatively. These findings will have direct clinical implications for neurosurgeons performing resection of midline paediatric posterior fossa tumours.
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Zhou Z, Li X, Liu Y, Fahlstedt M, Georgiadis M, Zhan X, Raymond SJ, Grant G, Kleiven S, Camarillo D, Zeineh M. Toward a Comprehensive Delineation of White Matter Tract-Related Deformation. J Neurotrauma 2021; 38:3260-3278. [PMID: 34617451 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2021.0195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Finite element (FE) models of the human head are valuable instruments to explore the mechanobiological pathway from external loading, localized brain response, and resultant injury risks. The injury predictability of these models depends on the use of effective criteria as injury predictors. The FE-derived normal deformation along white matter (WM) fiber tracts (i.e., tract-oriented strain) recently has been suggested as an appropriate predictor for axonal injury. However, the tract-oriented strain only represents a partial depiction of the WM fiber tract deformation. A comprehensive delineation of tract-related deformation may improve the injury predictability of the FE head model by delivering new tract-related criteria as injury predictors. Thus, the present study performed a theoretical strain analysis to comprehensively characterize the WM fiber tract deformation by relating the strain tensor of the WM element to its embedded fiber tract. Three new tract-related strains with exact analytical solutions were proposed, measuring the normal deformation perpendicular to the fiber tracts (i.e., tract-perpendicular strain), and shear deformation along and perpendicular to the fiber tracts (i.e., axial-shear strain and lateral-shear strain, respectively). The injury predictability of these three newly proposed strain peaks along with the previously used tract-oriented strain peak and maximum principal strain (MPS) were evaluated by simulating 151 impacts with known outcome (concussion or non-concussion). The results preliminarily showed that four tract-related strain peaks exhibited superior performance than MPS in discriminating concussion and non-concussion cases. This study presents a comprehensive quantification of WM tract-related deformation and advocates the use of orientation-dependent strains as criteria for injury prediction, which may ultimately contribute to an advanced mechanobiological understanding and enhanced computational predictability of brain injury.
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- Zhou Zhou
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,Department of Neurology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,Department of Neurology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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Kancherla V, Ma C, Grant G, Lee HC, Hintz SR, Carmichael SL. Factors Associated with Early Neonatal and First-Year Mortality in Infants with Myelomeningocele in California from 2006 to 2011. Am J Perinatol 2021; 38:1263-1270. [PMID: 32473597 PMCID: PMC7704777 DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1712165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to examine factors associated with early neonatal (death within first 7 days of birth) and infant (death during the first year of life) mortality among infants born with myelomeningocele. STUDY DESIGN We examined linked data from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, vital records, and hospital discharge records for infants born with myelomeningocele from 2006 to 2011. Survival probability was calculated using Kaplan-Meier Product Limit method and 95% confidence intervals (CI) using Greenwood's method; Cox proportional hazard models were used to estimate unadjusted and adjusted hazard ratios (HR) and 95% CI. RESULTS Early neonatal and first-year survival probabilities among infants born with myelomeningocele were 96.0% (95% CI: 94.1-97.3%) and 94.5% (95% CI: 92.4-96.1%), respectively. Low birthweight and having multiple co-occurring birth defects were associated with increased HRs ranging between 5 and 20, while having congenital hydrocephalus and receiving hospital transfer from the birth hospital to another hospital for myelomeningocele surgery were associated with HRs indicating a protective association with early neonatal and infant mortality. CONCLUSION Maternal race/ethnicity and social disadvantage did not predict early neonatal and infant mortality among infants with myelomeningocele; presence of congenital hydrocephalus and the role of hospital transfer for myelomeningocele repair should be further examined. KEY POINTS · Mortality in myelomeningocele is a concern. · Social disadvantage was not associated with death. · Hospital-based factors should be further examined.
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- Vijaya Kancherla
- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California,California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, Stanford, California
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- Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California,California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, Stanford, California
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- Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California,Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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McAllister D, Akers C, Boldt B, Mitchell LA, Tranvinh E, Douglas D, Goubran M, Rosenberg J, Georgiadis M, Karimpoor M, DiGiacomo P, Mouchawar N, Grant G, Camarillo D, Wintermark M, Zeineh MM. Neuroradiologic Evaluation of MRI in High-Contact Sports. Front Neurol 2021; 12:701948. [PMID: 34456852 PMCID: PMC8385770 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.701948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background and Purpose: Athletes participating in high-contact sports experience repeated head trauma. Anatomical findings, such as a cavum septum pellucidum, prominent CSF spaces, and hippocampal volume reductions, have been observed in cases of mild traumatic brain injury. The extent to which these neuroanatomical findings are associated with high-contact sports is unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are subtle neuroanatomic differences between athletes participating in high-contact sports compared to low-contact athletic controls. Materials and Methods: We performed longitudinal structural brain MRI scans in 63 football (high-contact) and 34 volleyball (low-contact control) male collegiate athletes with up to 4 years of follow-up, evaluating a total of 315 MRI scans. Board-certified neuroradiologists performed semi-quantitative visual analysis of neuroanatomic findings, including: cavum septum pellucidum type and size, extent of perivascular spaces, prominence of CSF spaces, white matter hyperintensities, arterial spin labeling perfusion asymmetries, fractional anisotropy holes, and hippocampal size. Results: At baseline, cavum septum pellucidum length was greater in football compared to volleyball controls (p = 0.02). All other comparisons were statistically equivalent after multiple comparison correction. Within football at baseline, the following trends that did not survive multiple comparison correction were observed: more years of prior football exposure exhibited a trend toward more perivascular spaces (p = 0.03 uncorrected), and lower baseline Standardized Concussion Assessment Tool scores toward more perivascular spaces (p = 0.02 uncorrected) and a smaller right hippocampal size (p = 0.02 uncorrected). Conclusion: Head impacts in high-contact sport (football) athletes may be associated with increased cavum septum pellucidum length compared to low-contact sport (volleyball) athletic controls. Other investigated neuroradiology metrics were generally equivalent between sports.
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- Derek McAllister
- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States.,Department of Radiology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.,Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Honolulu, HI, United States.,John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program and Physical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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Cecchi NJ, Domel AG, Liu Y, Raymond SJ, Zeineh M, Camarillo D, Grant G. Identifying Risk Factors For Head Impact Exposure In High School Football Using A Validated Instrumented Mouthguard. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2021. [DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000760836.87607.b6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Majzner RG, Ramakrishna S, Mochizuki A, Patel S, Chinnasamy H, Yeom K, Schultz L, Richards R, Campen C, Reschke A, Mahdi J, Toland AMS, Baggott C, Mavroukakis S, Egeler E, Moon J, Landrum K, Erickson C, Rasmussen L, Barsan V, Tamaresis JS, Marcy AC, Kunicki M, Fujimoto M, Ehlinger Z, Kurra S, Cornell T, Partap S, Fisher P, Grant G, Vogel H, Sahaf B, Davis K, Feldman S, Mackall CL, Monje M. Abstract CT031: GD2 CAR T cells mediate clinical activity and manageable toxicity in children and young adults with DIPG and H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas. Cancer Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2021-ct031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and other H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) are universally lethal central nervous system tumors. We previously discovered that the disialoganglioside GD2 is highly and homogenously expressed on H3K27M+ gliomas and demonstrated that GD2 CAR T cells are effective in preclinical models (Mount/Majzner et al., Nat Med, 2018).
Methods: Four subjects (3 DIPG, 1 spinal cord DMG; 4-25 yr; 1M/3F) were enrolled at DL1. Three subjects with H3K27M+ DIPG received 1e6 autologous GD2 CAR T cells/kg intravenously (IV) on study. One patient, a 25 y/o with spinal cord DMG, developed rapidly progressive disease after enrollment, resulting in complete paraparesis that led to removal from the study prior to cell infusion; she was treated on a single patient eIND with the same treatment regimen as DL1. We utilized a retroviral vector expressing a 14g2a.4-1BB.z CAR construct and an inducible iCasp9 safety switch. Manufacturing was performed in the Miltenyi Prodigy on CD4/CD8 enriched apheresis product. CAR T cells were cultured in the presence of dasatinib to improve T cell fitness (Weber et al., Science, 2021). An Ommaya reservoir was placed in all patients for monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP).
Results: We generated GD2 CAR T cell products meeting release criteria for all four patients. All subjects received lymphodepletion with cyclophosphamide and fludarabine and remained inpatient for 14+ days after infusion. All patients developed cytokine release syndrome (Grade 1-3) manifested by fever, tachycardia and hypotension, beginning 6-7 days after infusion. Due to concern for tumoral edema and increased ICP, patients were managed with conservative fluid resuscitation, and early intervention with tocilizumab and anakinra +/- corticosteroids. Other toxicities included ICANS (Grade 1-2) and neurotoxicity mediated by inflammation in sites of disease which we have termed Tumor Inflammation-Associated Neurotoxicity (TIAN). TIAN most often manifested as worsening of existing deficits, but one patient developed symptoms of increased ICP which quickly resolved upon removal of CSF via the Ommaya. No evidence of on-target, off-tumor toxicity was observed in any patients. No dose-limiting toxicities occurred.CAR T cells trafficked to the CNS and were detected in both the CSF and peripheral blood. Inflammatory cytokines including IL-6 were elevated in the CSF and blood. 3/4 patients exhibited marked improvement or resolution of neurological deficits and some radiographic improvement. The patient treated on a single patient eIND exhibited a >90% reduction in her spinal cord DMG tumor volume at two months post-infusion. Durability of the therapeutic benefit remains to be determined.
Conclusions: This is the first report of GD2 CAR T cell therapy for DIPG and spinal cord DMG. Toxicities are similar to other CAR T cells with additional, manageable complications due to inflammation at CNS sites of tumor. Treatment at DL1 demonstrated a tolerable safety profile and clear signs of T cell expansion and activity including clinical responses. This approach has the potential to transform therapy for patients with H3K27M+ DIPG/DMG. Further correlative studies, including single-cell RNAseq, longer-term outcomes and results from patients on subsequent dose levels will also be presented.
Citation Format: Robbie G. Majzner, Sneha Ramakrishna, Aaron Mochizuki, Shabnum Patel, Harshini Chinnasamy, Kristen Yeom, Liora Schultz, Rebecca Richards, Cynthia Campen, Agnes Reschke, Jasia Mahdi, Angus Martin Shaw Toland, Christina Baggott, Sharon Mavroukakis, Emily Egeler, Jennifer Moon, Kayla Landrum, Courtney Erickson, Lindsey Rasmussen, Valentin Barsan, John S. Tamaresis, Anne Cunniffe Marcy, Michael Kunicki, Michelle Fujimoto, Zach Ehlinger, Sreevidya Kurra, Timothy Cornell, Sonia Partap, Paul Fisher, Gerald Grant, Hannes Vogel, Bita Sahaf, Kara Davis, Steven Feldman, Crystal L. Mackall, Michelle Monje. GD2 CAR T cells mediate clinical activity and manageable toxicity in children and young adults with DIPG and H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2021; 2021 Apr 10-15 and May 17-21. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2021;81(13_Suppl):Abstract nr CT031.
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
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Fernandez-Miranda JC, Hwang P, Grant G. Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery for Resection of Giant Craniopharyngioma in a Toddler-Multimodal Presurgical Planning, Surgical Technique, and Management of Complications: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown) 2021; 19:E68-E69. [PMID: 31814025 DOI: 10.1093/ons/opz384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A 2-yr-old patient with a giant craniopharyngioma presented with seizures and panhypopituitarism. The lesion was initially approached at an outside institution with a transfrontal cyst fenestration, but progressive growth occurred later. Multiple management options were considered; we recommended an endoscopic endonasal approach with the goal of maximal safe resection. Virtual reality simulation and 3-dimensional printing were employed to evaluate whether the absence of pneumatization of the sinuses and the overall size of the nasal cavity could preclude effective surgical access. Our lab results suggested the binostril approach was feasible. A wide surgical exposure was performed from planum sphenoidale to clivus and from orbit to orbit. After removing the large calcified tumor portion, we found an accurate plane of dissection between tumor capsule, hypothalami, and visual pathways. By the end of resection, arterial bleeding was encountered secondary to an avulsion of the posterior communicating artery from the posterior cerebral artery. An angled aneurysm clip was placed with a single-shaft applier to secure the site of injury without narrowing the parent artery. Immediate and delayed magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography angiography studies showed gross total resection, no stroke, and no pseudoaneurysm formation. On postoperative day 9, patient developed neurological decline and pneumocephalus secondary to necrotic nasoseptal flap. Two endonasal repairs with a lateral nasal wall flap were attempted with no success. A temporoparietal fascia flap was then harvested and transposed from the temporal to the pterygopalatine fossa to successfully repair the skull base defect. The patient has made an extraordinary recovery with no neurological sequalae. The patient's parents provided consent for the procedure and use of intraoperative photos and videos for academic purposes. Institutional Review Board approval was not required.
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- Juan C Fernandez-Miranda
- Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California.,Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Stanford, California
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- Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California.,Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Stanford, California
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- Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California.,Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Stanford, California
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King J, Swinton M, Grant G, Buckley L, Lavin V, Alam N, Saunders MP. Is it Time to Look for Better Prognostic Markers and Reconsider Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Anal Cancers? Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2021; 33:e465-e466. [PMID: 34127351 DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2021.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- J King
- The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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Mochizuki A, Ramakrishna S, Good Z, Patel S, Chinnasamy H, Yeom K, Schultz L, Richards R, Campen C, Reschke A, Mahdi J, Toland A, Baggot C, Mavroukakis S, Egeler E, Moon J, Landrum K, Erickson C, Rasmussen L, Barsan V, Tamaresis J, Marcy A, Kunicki M, Celones M, Ehlinger Z, Kurra S, Cornell T, Partap S, Fisher P, Grant G, Vogel H, Davis K, Feldman S, Sahaf B, Majzner R, Mackall C, Monje M. OMIC-11. SINGLE CELL RNA SEQUENCING FROM THE CSF OF SUBJECTS WITH H3K27M+ DIPG/DMG TREATED WITH GD2 CAR T-CELLULAR THERAPY. Neuro Oncol 2021. [PMCID: PMC8168255 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noab090.158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Introduction We are conducting a Phase I clinical trial utilizing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells targeting GD2 (NCT04196413) for H3K27M-mutant diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and spinal cord diffuse midline glioma (DMG). Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is collected for correlative studies at the time of routine intracranial pressure monitoring via Ommaya catheter. Here we present single cell RNA-sequencing results from the first 3 subjects. Methods Single cell RNA-sequencing was performed utilizing 10X Genomics on cells isolated from CSF at various time points before and after CAR T-cell administration and on the CAR T-cell product. Output was aligned with Cell Ranger and analyzed in R. Results As detailed in the Majzner et al. abstract presented at this meeting, three of four subjects treated at dose-level one exhibited clear radiographic and/or clinical benefit. We have to date completed single cell RNA-sequencing for three of these four subjects (two with benefit, one without). After filtering out low-quality signals and doublets, 89,604 cells across 3 subjects were analyzed. Of these, 4,122 cells represent cells isolated from CSF and 85,482 cells represent CAR T-cell product. Two subjects who demonstrated clear clinical and radiographic improvement exhibited fewer S100A8+S100A9+ myeloid suppressor-cells and CD25+FOXP3+ regulatory T-cells in the CSF pre-infusion compared to the subject who did not derive a therapeutic response. In one subject with DIPG who demonstrated improvement, polyclonal CAR T-cells detectable in CSF at Day +14 demonstrated enrichment of CD8A, GZMA, GNLY and PDCD1 compared to the pre-infusion CAR T-cells by trajectory analysis, suggesting differentiation toward a cytotoxic phenotype; the same subject exhibited increasing numbers of S100A8+S100A9+ myeloid cells and CX3CR1+P2RY12+ microglia over time. Further analyses will be presented as data become available. Conclusions The presence of immunosuppressive myeloid populations, detectable in CSF, may correlate to clinical response in CAR T cell therapy for DIPG/DMG.
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- Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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Majzner R, Ramakrishna S, Mochizuki A, Patel S, Chinnasamy H, Yeom K, Schultz L, Richards R, Campen C, Reschke A, Mahdi J, Toland AMS, Baggott C, Mavroukakis S, Egeler E, Moon J, Landrum K, Erickson C, Rasmussen L, Barsan V, Tamaresis J, Marcy A, Kunicki M, Fujimoto M, Ehlinger Z, Kurra S, Cornell T, Partap S, Fisher P, Grant G, Vogel H, Sahaf B, Davis K, Feldman S, Mackall C, Monje M. EPCT-14. GD2 CAR T-CELLS MEDIATE CLINICAL ACTIVITY AND MANAGEABLE TOXICITY IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH H3K27M-MUTATED DIPG AND SPINAL CORD DMG. Neuro Oncol 2021. [PMCID: PMC8168142 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noab090.200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background
We previously discovered high expression of the disialoganglioside GD2 on H3K27M+ gliomas and demonstrated preclinical efficacy of intravenous (IV) GD2-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells in preclinical models of H3K27M-mutated diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs). We are now conducting a Phase I clinical trial (NCT04196413) of autologous GD2-targeting CAR T-cells for H3K27M+ DIPG and spinal cord DMG. Here we present the results of subjects treated at dose level 1 (DL1; 1 million GD2-CAR T-cells/kg IV).
Methods
Four patients (3 DIPG, 1 spinal DMG; ages 4–25; 1M/3F) were enrolled at DL1. Three subjects with H3K27M+ DIPG received 1e6 GD2-CAR T-cells/kg IV on study. One patient with spinal DMG enrolled but became ineligible after manufacturing and was treated on an eIND at DL1. An Ommaya reservoir was placed in all subjects for therapeutic monitoring of intracranial pressure. Subjects underwent lymphodepletion with fludarabine/cyclophosphamide and remained inpatient for at least two weeks post-infusion.
Results
All subjects developed cytokine release syndrome (Grade 1–3) manifested by fever, tachycardia and hypotension. Other toxicities included ICANS (Grade 1–2) and neurological symptoms/signs mediated by intratumoral inflammation which we have termed Tumor Inflammation-Associated Neurotoxicity (TIAN). No evidence of on-target, off-tumor toxicity was observed in any patients. No dose-limiting toxicities occurred. CAR T cells trafficked to the CNS and were detected in CSF and blood. 3/4 patients exhibited marked improvement or resolution of neurological deficits and radiographic improvement. The patient treated on an eIND exhibited >90% reduction in spinal DMG volume but progressed by month 3. Re-treatment of this subject via intracerebroventricular administration resulted in a second reduction in spinal DMG volume by ~80%.
Conclusions
GD2-CAR T-cells at DL1 demonstrate a tolerable safety profile in patients with H3K27M+ DIPG/DMG with clear signs of T-cell expansion and activity including clinical responses.
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- Robbie Majzner
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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Park JW, Barrette AM, Wang W, Grossauer S, Grant G, Lau K, Pitteri S, Monje M, Petritsch C. BIOL-05. MAPK PATHWAY INHIBITION SENSITIZES TO IMMUNOTHERAPY IN BRAF-MUTANT GLIOMAS. Neuro Oncol 2021. [PMCID: PMC8168157 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noab090.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background BRAF alterations frequently occur in pediatric low-grade gliomas. Previously, we showed that dabrafenib and trametinib (D+T) that target MAPK pathway can mediate the antitumor effect in a preclinical model of BRAF-mutant glioma (PMC5342782). Here, we further investigate the effect of MAPK pathway inhibitors on cancer cells and tumor-infiltrating immune cells to maximize the therapeutic efficacy in malignant gliomas. Methods Drug concentrations in tumor, brain and plasma were assessed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). RNA sequencing and Gene Set Enrichment Analysis were performed using patient-derived BRAF-mutant glioma lines upon D+T treatment. Molecular profiles of drug-resistant clones were assessed for understanding of glioma heterogeneity and exploring new therapeutic targets. Results. BRAF-mutant stem-like glioma cells were particularly resistant to BRAF or MAPK inhibitor, along with aggressive phenotype in mice. LC-MS/MS showed effective D+T drug delivery in tumor regions. The transcriptome analysis demonstrated that D+T upregulate HLA molecules and downregulate immunosuppressive factors in patient-derived BRAF-mutant glioma lines. Consistent with these molecular changes, D+T led to changes in the proportions of tumor-infiltrating immune cells, including CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes and FOXP3+ regulatory T cells. Furthermore, the therapeutic effect of D+T was further enhanced in combination with immune checkpoint inhibition. Conclusions The present study highlights the immunomodulatory activity of MAPK pathway inhibitors in BRAF-mutant gliomas.
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- Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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- Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Zhan X, Liu Y, Raymond S, Vahid Alizadeh H, Domel A, Gevaert O, Zeineh M, Grant G, Camarillo D. Rapid Estimation of Entire Brain Strain Using Deep Learning Models. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2021; 68:3424-3434. [PMID: 33852381 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2021.3073380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Many recent studies have suggested that brain deformation resulting from a head impact is linked to the corresponding clinical outcome, such as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Even though several finite element (FE) head models have been developed and validated to calculate brain deformation based on impact kinematics, the clinical application of these FE head models is limited due to the time-consuming nature of FE simulations. This work aims to accelerate the process of brain deformation calculation and thus improve the potential for clinical applications. METHODS We propose a deep learning head model with a five-layer deep neural network and feature engineering, and trained and tested the model on 2511 total head impacts from a combination of head model simulations and on-field college football and mixed martial arts impacts. RESULTS The proposed deep learning head model can calculate the maximum principal strain (Green Lagrange) for every element in the entire brain in less than 0.001s with an average root mean squared error of 0.022, and with a standard deviation of 0.001 over twenty repeats with random data partition and model initialization. CONCLUSION Trained and tested using the dataset of 2511 head impacts, this model can be applied to various sports in the calculation of brain strain with accuracy, and its applicability can even further be extended by incorporating data from other types of head impacts. SIGNIFICANCE In addition to the potential clinical application in real-time brain deformation monitoring, this model will help researchers estimate the brain strain from a large number of head impacts more efficiently than using FE models.
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Wang C, Sinha S, Jiang X, Murphy L, Fitch S, Wilson C, Grant G, Yang F. Matrix Stiffness Modulates Patient-Derived Glioblastoma Cell Fates in Three-Dimensional Hydrogels. Tissue Eng Part A 2021; 27:390-401. [PMID: 32731804 PMCID: PMC7984937 DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2020.0110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Cancer progression is known to be accompanied by changes in tissue stiffness. Previous studies have primarily employed immortalized cell lines and 2D hydrogel substrates, which do not recapitulate the 3D tumor niche. How matrix stiffness affects patient-derived cancer cell fate in 3D remains unclear. In this study, we report a matrix metalloproteinase-degradable poly(ethylene-glycol)-based hydrogel platform with brain-mimicking biochemical cues and tunable stiffness (40-26,600 Pa) for 3D culture of patient-derived glioblastoma xenograft (PDTX GBM) cells. Our results demonstrate that decreasing hydrogel stiffness enhanced PDTX GBM cell proliferation, and hydrogels with stiffness 240 Pa and below supported robust PDTX GBM cell spreading in 3D. PDTX GBM cells encapsulated in hydrogels demonstrated higher drug resistance than 2D control, and increasing hydrogel stiffness further enhanced drug resistance. Such 3D hydrogel platforms may provide a valuable tool for mechanistic studies of the role of niche cues in modulating cancer progression for different cancer types.
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- Christine Wang
- Department of Bioengineering, Schools of Engineering and Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Schools of Engineering and Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Schools of Engineering and Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Schools of Engineering and Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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Zhou Z, Domel AG, Li X, Grant G, Kleiven S, Camarillo D, Zeineh M. White Matter Tract-Oriented Deformation Is Dependent on Real-Time Axonal Fiber Orientation. J Neurotrauma 2021; 38:1730-1745. [PMID: 33446060 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2020.7412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Traumatic axonal injury (TAI) is a critical public health issue with its pathogenesis remaining largely elusive. Finite element (FE) head models are promising tools to bridge the gap between mechanical insult, localized brain response, and resultant injury. In particular, the FE-derived deformation along the direction of white matter (WM) tracts (i.e., tract-oriented strain) has been shown to be an appropriate predictor for TAI. The evolution of fiber orientation in time during the impact and its potential influence on the tract-oriented strain remains unknown, however. To address this question, the present study leveraged an embedded element approach to track real-time fiber orientation during impacts. A new scheme to calculate the tract-oriented strain was proposed by projecting the strain tensors from pre-computed simulations along the temporal fiber direction instead of its static counterpart directly obtained from diffuse tensor imaging. The results revealed that incorporating the real-time fiber orientation not only altered the direction but also amplified the magnitude of the tract-oriented strain, resulting in a generally more extended distribution and a larger volume ratio of WM exposed to high deformation along fiber tracts. These effects were exacerbated with the impact severities characterized by the acceleration magnitudes. Results of this study provide insights into how best to incorporate fiber orientation in head injury models and derive the WM tract-oriented deformation from computational simulations, which is important for furthering our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of TAI.
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- Zhou Zhou
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,Department of Neurology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Neuronic Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.,Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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Liu Y, Domel AG, Yousefsani SA, Kondic J, Grant G, Zeineh M, Camarillo DB. Correction to: Validation and Comparison of Instrumented Mouthguards for Measuring Head Kinematics and Assessing Brain Deformation in Football Impacts. Ann Biomed Eng 2021; 49:1119-1120. [PMID: 33725223 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-020-02701-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Yuzhe Liu
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Department of Neurology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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Vahid Alizadeh H, Fanton MG, Domel AG, Grant G, Camarillo DB. A Computational Study of Liquid Shock Absorption for Prevention of Traumatic Brain Injury. J Biomech Eng 2021; 143:1091613. [PMID: 33210108 DOI: 10.1115/1.4049155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), more colloquially known as concussion, is common in contact sports such as American football, leading to increased scrutiny of head protective gear. Standardized laboratory impact testing, such as the yearly National Football League (NFL) helmet test, is used to rank the protective performance of football helmets, motivating new technologies to improve the safety of helmets relative to existing equipment. In this work, we hypothesized that a helmet which transmits a nearly constant minimum force will result in a reduced risk of mTBI. To evaluate the plausibility of this hypothesis, we first show that the optimal force transmitted to the head, in a reduced order model of the brain, is in fact a constant force profile. To simulate the effects of a constant force within a helmet, we conceptualize a fluid-based shock absorber system for use within a football helmet. We integrate this system within a computational helmet model and simulate its performance on the standard NFL helmet test impact conditions. The simulated helmet is compared with other helmet designs with different technologies. Computer simulations of head impacts with liquid shock absorption predict that, at the highest impact speed (9.3 m/s), the average brain tissue strain is reduced by 27.6% ± 9.3 compared to existing helmet padding when tested on the NFL helmet protocol. This simulation-based study puts forth a target benchmark for the future design of physical manifestations of this technology.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Bioengineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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Feng AY, Garcia CA, Jin MC, Ho AL, Li G, Grant G, Ratliff J, Skirboll SL. An Analysis of Public Interest in Elective Neurosurgical Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Online Search Engine Trends. World Neurosurg 2021; 148:e282-e293. [PMID: 33412316 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.12.143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Revised: 12/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/26/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recommended the temporary cessation of all elective surgeries. The effects on patients' interest of elective neurosurgical procedures are currently unexplored. METHODS Using Google Trends, search terms of 7 different neurosurgical procedure categories (trauma, spine, tumor, movement disorder, epilepsy, endovascular, and miscellaneous) were assessed in terms of relative search volume (RSV) between January 2015 and September 2020. Analyses of search terms were performed for over the short term (February 18, 2020, to April 18, 2020), intermediate term (January 1, 2020, to May 31, 2020), and long term (January 2015 to September 2020). State-level interest during phase I reopening (April 28, 2020, to May 31, 2020) was also evaluated. RESULTS In the short term, RSVs of 4 categories (epilepsy, movement disorder, spine, and tumor) were significantly lower in the post-CMS announcement period. In the intermediate term, RSVs of 5 categories (miscellaneous, epilepsy, movement disorder, spine, and tumor) were significantly lower in the post-CMS announcement period. In the long term, RSVs of nearly all categories (endovascular, epilepsy, miscellaneous, movement disorder, spine, and tumor) were significantly lower in the post-CMS announcement period. Only the movement disorder procedure category had significantly higher RSV in states that reopened early. CONCLUSIONS With the recommendation for cessation of elective surgeries, patient interests in overall elective neurosurgical procedures have dropped significantly. With gradual reopening, there has been a resurgence in some procedure types. Google Trends has proven to be a useful tracker of patient interest and may be used by neurosurgical departments to facilitate outreach strategies.
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- Austin Y Feng
- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
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Tam L, Yecies D, Han M, Toescu S, Wright J, Mankad K, Ho C, Lober R, Cheshier S, Vitanza N, Fisher P, Hargrave D, Jacques T, Aquilina K, Grant G, Taylor M, Mattonen S, Ramaswamy V, Yeom K. IMG-13. MRI-BASED RADIOMICS PROGNOSTIC MARKERS OF POSTERIOR FOSSA EPENDYMOMA. Neuro Oncol 2020. [PMCID: PMC7715588 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa222.348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Posterior fossa ependymomas (PFE) are common pediatric brain tumors often assessed with MRI before surgery. Advanced radiomic analysis show promise in stratifying risk and outcome in other pediatric brain tumors. Here, we extracted high-dimensional MRI features to identify prognostic, image-based, radiomics markers of PFE and compared its performance to clinical variables. METHODS 93 children from five centers (median age=3.3yrs; 59 males; mean PFS=50mos) were included. Tumor volumes were manually contoured on T1-post contrast and T2-weighted MRI for PyRadiomics feature extraction. Features include first-order statistics, size, shape, and texture metrics calculated on the original, log-sigma, and wavelet transformed images. Progression free survival (PFS) served as outcome. 10-fold cross-validation of a LASSO Cox regression was used to predict PFS. Model performance was analyzed and concordance metric (C) was determined using clinical variable (age at diagnosis and sex) only, radiomics only, and radiomics plus clinical variable. RESULTS Six radiomic features were selected (all T1): 1 first-order kurtosis (log-sigma) and 5 texture features (3 wavelet, 2 original). This model demonstrated significantly higher performance than a clinical model alone (C: 0.69 vs 0.58, p<0.001). Adding clinical features to the radiomic features didn’t improve prediction (p=0.67). For patients with molecular subtyping (n=48), adding this feature to the clinical plus radiomics models significantly improved performance over clinical features alone (C = 0.79 vs. 0.66, p=0.02). Further validation and model refinement with additional datasets are ongoing. CONCLUSION Our pilot study shows potential role for MRI-based radiomics and machine learning for PFE risk stratification and as radiographic biomarkers.
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- Lydia Tam
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Lilly J, Mason J, Appert E, Heath A, Zhu Y, Zhang B, Koptyra M, Santi M, Pollack I, Goldman S, Leary S, Buccoliero A, Scagnet M, Haussler D, Hanson D, Zhang J, Wan W, Li C, Firestein R, Cain J, Phillips J, Gupta N, Mueller S, Grant G, Monje-Deisseroth M, Partap S, Greenfield J, Rood B, Nazarian J, Raabe E, Jackson E, Stapleton S, Lober R, Kram D, Storm P, Lulla R, Prados M, Resnick A, Waanders A. MODL-26. CHILDREN’S BRAIN TUMOR NETWORK: ACCELERATING RESEARCH THROUGH COLLABORATION AND OPEN-SCIENCE. Neuro Oncol 2020. [PMCID: PMC7715173 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa222.599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The Children’s Brain Tumor Network (formerly known as Children’s Brain Tumor Consortium- CBTTC) is a global organization pioneering a model of open-science medical research to improve treatment and discover cures. Started in 2011, our objective was to utilize a regulatory, agreement, and governance architecture to remove existing research barriers that slowed down the pace of research and collaboration. Our network now includes 17 institutions working together to empower research. As of December 2019, over 3,600 subjects have been enrolled resulting in collection of over 45,000 specimens. Clinical data collection is longitudinal and includes medical history, diagnosis, treatment, pathology slides and reports, radiology imaging and reports, and outcome data. The tissue is collected flash-frozen, in freezing media, and fresh for the generation of pre-clinical models including cell lines. Blood is collected from the subject, with blood or saliva collected from the parents for germline comparison. Additionally, the Children’s Brain Tumor Network- Pediatric Brain Tumor Atlas has generated 952 WGS and RNAseq, 221 proteomics, with annotated clinical data. All of this data, both generated raw and processed data, has been made available broadly to the scientific community via cloud-based platforms, including the Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Portal, Cavatica, and PedCbioportal. As of January 2020, we have 45 approved biospecimen requests and 80 genomic/molecular data requests. In summary, the Children’s Brain Tumor Network’s goal is to accelerate the pace of discovery by providing resources and expanding the network of scientists working towards a cure.
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- Jena Lilly
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Joseph M, Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical, Hackensack, NJ, USA
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- Beijing Tiantan Hospital Neurosurgery Center, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Tiantan Hospital Neurosurgery Center, Beijing, China
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- Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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- University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Stanford University/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Stanford University/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Pediatric Brain and Spine Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Children’s National Health System, Washington DC, USA
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- Wake Forest Baptist Health- Brenner Children’s Hospital, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, RI, USA
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- University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA
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Tam L, Han M, Wright J, Toescu S, Campion A, Shpanskaya K, Mankad K, Ho C, Lober R, Cheshier S, Hargrave D, Jacques T, Aquilina K, Monje M, Grant G, Mattonen S, Vitanza N, Yeom K. IMG-10. MRI-BASED RADIOMIC PROGNOSTIC MARKERS OF DIFFUSE MIDLINE GLIOMA. Neuro Oncol 2020. [PMCID: PMC7715677 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa222.346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND
Diffuse midline gliomas (DMG) are lethal pediatric brain tumors with dismal prognoses. Presently, MRI is the mainstay of disease diagnosis and surveillance. We aimed to identify prognostic image-based radiomics markers of DMG and compare its performance to clinical variables at presentation.
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104 treatment-naïve DMG MRIs from five centers were used (median age=6.5yrs; 18 males, median OS=11mos). We isolated tumor volumes of T1-post-contrast (T1gad) and T2-weighted (T2) MRI for PyRadiomics high-dimensional feature extraction. 900 features were extracted on each image, including first order statistics, 2D/3D Shape, Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix, Gray Level Run Length Matrix, Gray Level Size Zone Matrix, Neighboring Gray tone Difference Matrix, and Gray Level Dependence Matrix, as defined by Imaging Biomarker Standardization Initiative. Overall survival (OS) served as outcome. 10-fold cross-validation of LASSO Cox regression was used to predict OS. We analyzed model performance using clinical variable (age at diagnosis and sex) only, radiomics only, and radiomics plus clinical variable. Concordance metric was used to assess the Cox model.
RESULTS
Nine radiomic features were selected from T1gad (2 texture wavelet) and T2 (5 first-order features (1 original, 4 wavelet), 2 texture features (1 wavelet, 1 log-sigma). This model demonstrated significantly higher performance than a clinical model alone (C: 0.68 vs 0.59, p<0.001). Adding clinical features to radiomic features slightly improved prediction, but was not significant (C=0.70, p=0.06).
CONCLUSION
Our pilot study shows a potential role for MRI-based radiomics and machine learning for DMG risk stratification and as image-based biomarkers for clinical therapy trials.
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- Lydia Tam
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Mirsky D, Prince E, Staulcup S, Hengartner A, Vijmasi T, Johnston J, Massimi L, Anderson R, Souweidane M, Naftel R, Limbrick D, Grant G, Niazi T, Dudley R, Kilburn L, Jackson E, Jallo G, Ginn K, Smith A, Chern J, Lee A, Drapeau A, Krieger M, Handler M, Hankinson T. RARE-11. QUANTITATIVE MR IMAGING FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH UNIQUE TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS IN PEDIATRIC ADAMANTINOMATOUS CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA: A POTENTIAL GUIDE FOR THERAPY. Neuro Oncol 2020. [PMCID: PMC7715942 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa222.722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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METHODS Through the Advancing Treatment for Pediatric Craniopharyngioma (ATPC) consortium we accumulated preoperative MRIs and tumor RNA for 50 unique ACP patients. MRIs were assessed quantitatively for 28 different features and analyzed using Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) and optimal clustering was determined via maximization of Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC). Following bulk RNAseq, differential expression and pathway enrichment were performed using standard methodologies (i.e., DESeq2 and GSEA). RESULTS MRI features were well represented in the first 3 dimensions of MFA (variance explained=67.32%); specifically tumor/cyst size, ventricular size, and cyst fluid diffusivity. Using this three-way axis, we identified 3 patient subgroups. Transcriptional differences between these subgroups indicated one group was enriched for DNA damage response and MYC related pathways, one group enriched for SHH, and one group enriched for WNT/β-catenin and EMT-related pathways. CONCLUSION This preliminary work suggests that there may be unique gene expression variants within ACP, which may be identified preoperatively using easily quantifiable MRI parameters. These radiogenomic signatures could provide prognostic information and/or guidance in the selection of antitumor therapies for children with ACP.
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- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
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- Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Arnold Palmer Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Tam L, Lee E, Han M, Wright J, Chen L, Quon J, Lober R, Poussaint T, Grant G, Taylor M, Ramaswamy V, Ho C, Cheshier S, Said M, Vitanza N, Edwards M, Yeom K. IMG-22. A DEEP LEARNING MODEL FOR AUTOMATIC POSTERIOR FOSSA PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION: A MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL STUDY. Neuro Oncol 2020. [PMCID: PMC7715226 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa222.357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Brain tumors are the most common solid malignancies in childhood, many of which develop in the posterior fossa (PF). Manual tumor measurements are frequently required to optimize registration into surgical navigation systems or for surveillance of nonresectable tumors after therapy. With recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), automated MRI-based tumor segmentation is now feasible without requiring manual measurements. Our goal was to create a deep learning model for automated PF tumor segmentation that can register into navigation systems and provide volume output. METHODS 720 pre-surgical MRI scans from five pediatric centers were divided into training, validation, and testing datasets. The study cohort comprised of four PF tumor types: medulloblastoma, diffuse midline glioma, ependymoma, and brainstem or cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma. Manual segmentation of the tumors by an attending neuroradiologist served as “ground truth” labels for model training and evaluation. We used 2D Unet, an encoder-decoder convolutional neural network architecture, with a pre-trained ResNet50 encoder. We assessed ventricle segmentation accuracy on a held-out test set using Dice similarity coefficient (0–1) and compared ventricular volume calculation between manual and model-derived segmentations using linear regression. RESULTS Compared to the ground truth expert human segmentation, overall Dice score for model performance accuracy was 0.83 for automatic delineation of the 4 tumor types. CONCLUSIONS In this multi-institutional study, we present a deep learning algorithm that automatically delineates PF tumors and outputs volumetric information. Our results demonstrate applied AI that is clinically applicable, potentially augmenting radiologists, neuro-oncologists, and neurosurgeons for tumor evaluation, surveillance, and surgical planning.
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- Lydia Tam
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Centre International Carthage Médicale, Monastir, Tunisia
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Hengartner AC, Prince E, Staulcup S, Vijmasi T, Souweidane M, Jackson EM, Johnston JM, Anderson RCE, Naftel RP, Grant G, Niazi TN, Dudley R, Limbrick DD, Ginn K, Smith A, Kilburn L, Jallo G, Wilkening G, Hankinson T. QOL-22. MACHINE-LEARNING INFERENCE MAY PREDICT QUALITY OF LIFE SUBGROUPS OF ADAMANTINOMATOUS CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA. Neuro Oncol 2020. [PMCID: PMC7715913 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa222.684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Due to disease and/or treatment-related injury, such as hypothalamic, visual, and endocrine damage, quality of life (QoL) scores after childhood-onset Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma (ACP) are among the lowest of all pediatric brain tumors. Decision-making regarding management would be aided by more complete understanding of a patients likely QoL trajectory following intervention. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed caregiver and patient-reported QoL-instruments from the first 50 patients (ages 1–17 years at diagnosis) enrolled in the international Advancing Treatment for Pediatric Craniopharyngioma (ATPC) consortium. Surveys included 205 pediatric-relevant questions and were completed at diagnosis, and 1- and 12-months following diagnosis. Using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), these categorical QoL surveys were interrogated to identify time-dependent patient subgroups. Additionally, custom deep learning classifiers were developed using Google’s TensorFlow framework. RESULTS By representing QoL data in the reduced dimensionality of MCA-space, we identified QoL subgroups that either improved or declined over time. We assessed differential trends in QoL responses to identify variables that were subgroup specific (Kolmogorov-Smirnov p-value < 0.1; n=20). Additionally, our optimized deep learning classifier achieved a mean 5-fold cross-validation area under precision-recall curve score > 0.99 when classifying QoL subgroups at 12 month follow-up, using only baseline data. CONCLUSIONs This work demonstrates the existence of time-dependent QoL-based ACP subgroups that can be inferred at time-of-diagnosis via machine learning analyses of baseline survey responses. The ability to predict an ACP patient’s QoL trajectory affords caregivers valuable information that can be leveraged to maximize that patient’s psychosocial state and therefore improve overall therapy.
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- Astrid C Hengartner
- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Neurosurgery, New York, NY, USA
- Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Neurological Surgery, New York, NY, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Columbia University, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, Department of Neurosurgery, New York, NY, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Monroe Carell Jr, Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Department of Neurological Surgery, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Miami, FL, USA
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- McGill University, Department of Neurosurgery, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, St, Louis, MO, USA
- Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, St, Louis, MO, USA
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- Children’s Mercy Hospital, The Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, the Department of Pediatrics, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Arnold Palmer Hospital, Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Children’s National Health System, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Washington DC, USA
- Children’s National Health System, Brain Tumor Institute, Washington DC, USA
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- Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Institute of Brain Protection Sciences, St, Petersburg, FL, USA
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- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Department of Pediatric Neuropsychology, Aurora, CO, USA
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics-Neurology, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Aurora, CO, USA
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Wang C, Sinha S, Jiang X, Fitch S, Wilson C, Caretti V, Ponnuswami A, Monje M, Grant G, Yang F. A comparative study of brain tumor cells from different age and anatomical locations using 3D biomimetic hydrogels. Acta Biomater 2020; 116:201-208. [PMID: 32911104 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2020.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 08/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Brain tumors exhibit vast genotypic and phenotypic diversity depending on patient age and anatomical location. Hydrogels hold great promise as 3D in vitro models for studying brain tumor biology and drug screening, yet previous studies were limited to adult glioblastoma cells, and most studies used immortalized cell lines. Here we report a hydrogel platform that supports the proliferation and invasion of patient-derived brain tumor cell cultures (PDCs) isolated from different patient age groups and anatomical locations. Hydrogel stiffness was tuned by varying poly(ethylene-glycol) concentration. Cell adhesive peptide (CGRDS), hyaluronic acid, and MMP-cleavable crosslinkers were incorporated to facilitate cell adhesion and cell-mediated degradation. Three PDC lines were compared including adult glioblastoma cells (aGBM), pediatric glioblastoma cells (pGBM), and diffuse pontine intrinsic glioma (DIPG). A commonly used immortalized adult glioblastoma cell line U87 was included as a control. PDCs displayed stiffness-dependent behavior, with 40 Pa hydrogel promoting faster tumor proliferation and invasion. Adult GBM cells exhibited faster proliferation than pediatric GBM, and DIPG showed slowest proliferation. These results suggest both patient age and tumor location affects brain tumor behaviors. Adult GBM PDCs also exhibited very different cell proliferation and morphology from U87. The hydrogel reported here can provide a useful tool for future studies to better understand how age and anatomical locations impacts brain tumor progression using 3D in vitro models.
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