Abstract #2859

White Matter Abnormalities in Perinatally HIV-Infected Youths: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

Manoj K. Sarma¹, Margaret Keller², Linda Chang³, Rajakumar Nagarajan¹, Judy Hayes², Karin Nielsen-Saines⁴, David E. Michalik⁵, Jaime Deville⁴, Joseph A. Church⁶, M. Albert Thomas¹

¹Radiological Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States; ²Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States; ³Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States; ⁴Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States; ⁵Department of Infectious disease-Pediatrics, Millers Childrens Hospital of Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, United States; ⁶Department of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Neuropathological examinations show white matter (WM) involvement in the brains of HIV-infected patients. In this study we have compared diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) derived fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD) across a group of perinatally HIV-infected youths and healthy controls. We performed structural DTI for six perinatally HIV-infected youths and five age-matched healthy controls. DTI analysis was done using the Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping (LDDMM) method. Our findings showed widespread brain regions of declined FA and increased AD values in perinatally HIV infected youths compared to healthy controls. Also we observed a trend of increasing MD and RD in HIV infected youths.