Reduction in interhemispheric functional connectivity in the dorsal visual pathway in unilateral acute open globe injury patients: a resting-state fMRI study
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Yi Shao. Department of Ophthalmology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, No.17, Yongwaizheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi Province, China. freebee99@163.com; Fu-Qing Zhou. Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, No.17, Yongwaizheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi Province, China. Fq.chou@yahoo.com

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81660158; No.81400372); Natural

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    This study investigated the changes in interhemispheric functional connectivity (FC) of the whole brain in open globe injury (OGI) patients, using voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC), and their relationships with clinical features. Totally, 16 male and 2 female acute OGI patients and 18 sex, age, and education-matched healthy volunteers were enrolled in the study. All subjects were scanned through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves analyses had been used to identify the VMHC in these brain areas could be used as biomarkers to distinguish OGI and from healthy control (HC). The mean VMHC values in multiple brain areas and clinical OGI manifestations were evaluated with a Pearson correlation analysis. OGI patients had significantly decreased VMHC in the bilateral calcarine/lingual/cuneus (BA18, 19, 30) and middle occipital gyrus (BA18, 19). The OGI patients had abnormal interhemispheric FC in the dorsal visual pathway, which may represent the pathophysiological mechanism that underlies acute vision loss after OGI.

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Lei Ye, Ran Wei, Xin Huang, et al. Reduction in interhemispheric functional connectivity in the dorsal visual pathway in unilateral acute open globe injury patients: a resting-state fMRI study. Int J Ophthalmol, 2018,11(6):1056-1060

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  • Received:August 12,2017
  • Revised:April 12,2018
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  • Online: June 12,2018
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