Extensive white matter hyperintensities may increase brain volume in cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy.

نویسندگان

  • Ming Yao
  • Eric Jouvent
  • Marco During
  • Ophélia Godin
  • Dominique Hervé
  • Jean Pierre Guichard
  • Yi-Cheng Zhu
  • Andreas Gschwendtner
  • Christian Opherk
  • Martin Dichgans
  • Hugues Chabriat
چکیده

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The extent of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) is associated with cerebral atrophy in elderly people. WMH is a radiological hallmark of cerebral autosomal-dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), but their relationship with brain volume remains poorly understood. The association between WMH and brain volume was analyzed in a large population of patients with CADASIL. METHODS Demographic and MRI data of 278 patients recruited from a prospective cohort study were analyzed. Volumes of WMH and lacunar infarcts, number of cerebral microbleeds, and brain parenchymal fraction were measured. Multivariate analysis was used to study the impact of WMH on brain volume at baseline. RESULTS In univariate analyses, brain parenchymal fraction was negatively associated with age, male sex, and all MRI markers. Multiple regression modeling showed that brain parenchymal fraction was inversely related to age, number of cerebral microbleeds, and normalized volume of lacunar infarcts but positively related to normalized volume of WMH (P<0.001). This positive relationship was independent of the presence/absence of lacunar infarcts or of cerebral microbleeds. Subgroup analysis showed that this association was significant in subjects having normalized volume of WMH ≥6.13 or brain parenchymal fraction ≥86.37% (median values, both P≤0.001). CONCLUSIONS The results of the present study suggest that extensive WMH may be associated with increase of brain volume in CADASIL. In this disorder, WMH may be related not only to loss of white matter components, but also to a global increase of water content in the cerebral tissue.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Stroke

دوره 43 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012