高强度
失智症
萎缩
医学
痴呆
神经心理学
心脏病学
疾病
认知
神经影像学
白质
心理学
听力学
病理
内科学
作者
Katharine Huynh,Olivier Piguet,John B.J. Kwok,Carol Dobson-Stone,Glenda M. Halliday,John R. Hodges,Ramon Landin-Romero
出处
期刊:Neurology
[Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer)]
日期:2021-03-30
卷期号:96 (13): e1743-e1754
被引量:9
标识
DOI:10.1212/wnl.0000000000011638
摘要
Objective To test the hypothesis that white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer disease (AD) are associated with disease variables such as disease severity, cortical atrophy, and cognition, we conducted a cross-sectional brain MRI study with volumetric and voxel-wise analyses. Methods A total of 129 patients (64 bvFTD, 65 AD) and 66 controls underwent high-resolution brain MRI and clinical and neuropsychological examination. Genetic screening was conducted in 124 cases (54 bvFTD, 44 AD, 26 controls) and postmortem pathology was available in 18 cases (13 bvFTD, 5 AD). WMH were extracted using an automated segmentation algorithm and analyses of total volumes and spatial distribution were conducted. Group differences in total WMH volume and associations with vascular risk and disease severity were examined. Syndrome-specific voxel-wise associations between WMH, cortical atrophy, and performance across different cognitive domains were assessed. Results Total WMH volumes were larger in patients with bvFTD than patients with AD and controls. In bvFTD, WMH volumes were associated with disease severity but not vascular risk. Patients with bvFTD and patients with AD showed distinct spatial patterns of WMH that mirrored characteristic patterns of cortical atrophy. Regional WMH load correlated with worse cognitive performance in discrete cognitive domains. WMH-related cognitive impairments were shared between syndromes, with additional associations found in bvFTD. Conclusion Increased WMH are common in patients with bvFTD and patients with AD. Our findings suggest that WMH are partly independent of vascular pathology and associated with the neurodegenerative process. WMH occur in processes independent of and related to cortical atrophy. Furthermore, increased WMH in different regions contributes to cognitive deficits.
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