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Chen-Xing Qi1, Zhi Wen1,2, Xin Huang1
1Department of Ophthalmology, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital Affiliated to Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi.
Objectives:
Previous studies demonstrated that thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) patients were accompanied by cognitive decline. However, The exact neural mechanisms of cognitive decline in TAO patients remain unclear. Our study aimed to investigate the spontaneous brain activity alterations using amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) method and their relationships with clinical features in TAO patients.
Materials And Methods:
In total, twenty-one patients with TAO (14 men and 7 women) and 21 healthy control (HC) subjects (14 men and 7 women) were enrolled in this study. The ALFF method was used to assess the spontaneous brain activity changes. Meanwhile, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to distinguish TAO group and HCs group. And Pearson correlation was performed to calculate the relationship between the observed mean ALFF values of the altered regions in patients with TAO and their clinical features.
Results:
Compared with the HCs, TAO patients had significantly lower ALFF values in the right superior occipital gyrus (SOG) and bilateral precuneus (preCUN). In contrast, TAO patients showed higher ALFF values in the left cerebellum (CER) and left insula (INS).
Conclusion:
our result highlighted that TAO patients showed altered intrinsic brain activities in the preCUN, left CER, left INS and right SOG, which might provide useful information for explaining neural mechanisms in patients with TAO.
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