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Abstract
Objective我们用磁化传递成像评估white matter tissue integrity in migraine, to explore whether white matter microstructure was more diffusely affected beyond visible white matter hyperintensities (WMHs), and to explore whether focal invisible microstructural changes precede visible focal WMHs in migraineurs.
MethodsWe included 137 migraineurs (79 with aura, 58 without aura) and 74 controls from the Cerebral Abnormalities in Migraine, an Epidemiological Risk Analysis (CAMERA) study, a longitudinal population-based study on structural brain lesions in migraine patients, who were scanned at baseline and at a 9-year follow-up. To assess microstructural brain tissue integrity, baseline magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) values were calculated for whole brain white matter. Baseline MTR values were determined for areas of normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) that had progressed into MRI-detectable WMHs at follow-up and compared to MTR values of contralateral NAWM.
ResultsMTR values for whole brain white matter did not differ between migraineurs and controls. In migraineurs, but not in controls, NAWM that later progressed to WMHs at follow-up had lower mean MTR (mean [SD] 0.354 [0.009] vs 0.356 [0.008],p= 0.047) at baseline as compared to contralateral white matter.
ConclusionsWe did not find evidence for widespread microstructural white matter changes in migraineurs compared to controls. However, our findings suggest that a gradual or stepwise process might be responsible for evolution of focal invisible microstructural changes into focal migraine-related visible WMHs.
Glossary
- BMI=
- body mass index;
- CAMERA=
- Cerebral Abnormalities in Migraine, an Epidemiological Risk Analysis;
- FLAIR=
- fluid-attenuated inversion recovery;
- FLIRT=
- FMRIB's linear image registration tool;
- HDL=
- high-density lipoprotein;
- MNI=
- Montreal Neurological Institute;
- MTI=
- magnetization transfer imaging;
- MTR=
- magnetization transfer ratio;
- NAWM=
- normal-appearing white matter;
- TE=
- echo time;
- TR=
- repetition time;
- WMH=
- white matter hyperintensities
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- ReceivedNovember 25, 2018.
- Accepted in final formMarch 21, 2019.
- © 2019 American Academy of Neurology
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