Lumír Hrabálek

All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess.

2. Materials and Methods Our single centre retrospective study included all paediatric patients (younger than 18 years of age) between July 2019 and April 2021, admitted to our centre in Olomouc, Czech Republic, who met one of the following criteria: ICP > 20 cmH2O due to hydrocephalus (1), original shunt failure (2) or newly diagnosed intracranial tumor (3). Children with an initial eye disorder unrelated to hydrocephalus or failure of the original shunt were excluded from this group.

Abstract Background Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is the most common cause of spinal cord dysfunction, potentially leading to severe disability. Abnormal cervical spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and motor evoked potentials (MEPs) are independent predictors of disease progression. Abnormal MRI is accompanied by various activation changes in functional brain MRI (fMRI), whereas preoperative and postoperative fMRI adaptations associated with abnormal preoperative MEP remain unknown.