Multi-modal assessment of newborns at risk of neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy – the MONItOr study

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dc.contributor.advisorDempsey, Eugene M.
dc.contributor.advisorMurray, Deirdre M.
dc.contributor.advisorBoylan, Geraldine B.
dc.contributor.authorGarvey, Aisling A.
dc.contributor.funderNational Children’s Research Centre, Crumlin, Ireland
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-17T15:27:15Z
dc.date.available2023-05-17T15:27:15Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.submitted2022
dc.description.abstractBackground: Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) is the leading cause of acquired brain injury in term infants. At present, therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is the only approved therapy for infants with moderate-severe HIE. However, it must be commenced before 6 hours of age resulting in a clinical challenge to resuscitate, stabilize, identify and stratify infants in this narrow timeframe. Furthermore, a significant proportion of infants with mild HIE will have neurodevelopmental impairment. Improved, timely identification of infants at risk of brain injury is required. The aim of this study was to improve our knowledge of the early physiology of infants with HIE by describing the evolution of electroencephalography (EEG), near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and non-invasive cardiac output monitoring (NICOM) in infants with all grades of HIE and to determine whether these markers may be helpful in the identification of infants at risk of brain injury. Methods: This prospective observational study was set in a tertiary neonatal unit (November 2017-March 2020). Infants with all grades of HIE had multi-modal monitoring, including EEG, NIRS and NICOM, commenced after delivery and continued for up to 84 hours. All infants had an MRI performed in the first week of life. Healthy term controls were recruited after delivery and had NICOM monitoring at 6 and 24 hours of age. In this thesis, I also included infants recruited previously as part of four historic prospective cohorts that had early EEG monitoring. These infants were combined with infants with mild HIE from the current prospective cohort to examine the difference in EEG features between infants with mild HIE and healthy term controls. Results: Eighty-two infants were recruited in the prospective cohort (30 mild HIE, 25 moderate, 6 severe, 21 controls) and 60 infants were included from the historic cohorts. This study identified significant differences between EEG features of infants with mild HIE and controls in the first 6 hours after birth. Seventy-two percent of infants with mild HIE had some abnormal features on their continuous EEG and quantitative analysis revealed significant differences in spectral shape between the groups. In our cohort, cSO2 increased and FTOE decreased over the first 24 hours in all grades of HIE regardless of TH status. Compared to the moderate group, infants with mild HIE had significantly higher cSO2 at 6 hours (p=0.003), 9 hours (p=0.009) and 12 hours (p=0.032) and lower FTOE at 6 hours (p=0.016) and 9 hours (0.029). Beyond 18 hours, no differences were seen between the groups. NICOM was assessed in infants with HIE and compared with controls. Infants with mild HIE have a significantly higher heart rate at 6 hours of age compared with controls (p=0.034). Infants with moderate HIE undergoing TH have a significantly lower cardiac output compared with mild HIE (p=0.046) and control groups (p=0.040). Heart rate is significantly reduced (p<0.001) but stroke volume is maintained and gradually increases from 6-72 hours despite TH. Finally, we assessed the ability of EEG, NIRS and NICOM to predict short-term outcome (abnormal MRI +/- death in the first week of life). At 6 hours, none of the EEG, NIRS or NICOM measures predicted short-term outcome. At 12 hours of age, both qualitative and quantitative EEG features significantly predicted abnormal short-term outcome. Conclusion: Identification of infants at risk of brain injury immediately after birth is challenging. Objective, early biomarkers are required. This is the first study to combine EEG, NIRS and NICOM in infants with all grades of HIE. Multi-modal monitoring is feasible and this thesis provides novel insights into the underlying physiology and evolution of injury in infants with HIE. Furthermore, it reaffirms the importance of early continuous EEG in HIE.en
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dc.identifier.citationGarvey, A. A. 2022. Multi-modal assessment of newborns at risk of neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy – the MONItOr study. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.endpage308en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14481
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.relation.projectNational Children’s Research Centre (Clinical Fellowship)en
dc.rights© 2022, Aisling A. Garvey.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectEEGen
dc.subjectMRIen
dc.subjectBiomarkeren
dc.subjectHypoxic ischaemic encephalopathyen
dc.subjectNear-infrared spectroscopyen
dc.subjectNon-invasive cardiac output monitoringen
dc.subjectMulti-modal monitoringen
dc.titleMulti-modal assessment of newborns at risk of neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy – the MONItOr studyen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD - Doctor of Philosophyen
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