在多发性硬化症中出现正常的白质和残疾
Valentin N Stepanov1,2, Santiago Coelho1,2, Benjamin Ades-Aron1,2
1Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
|November 24, 2025
概括
扩散MRI (dMRI) 显示多发性硬化症 (MS) 中出现正常的白质损伤 (NAWM),与残疾相关. 像标准模型成像 (SMI) 这样的先进的dMRI指标为轴突损失和炎症提供了具体的见解.
科学领域:
- 神经成像是一种神经成像.
- 放射学 放射学是一门学科.
- 神经学 神经学
背景情况:
- 多发性硬化症 (MS) 常规MRI显示病变和缩,但这些并不能完全解释患者的残疾.
- 扩散核磁共振 (dMRI) 技术,如扩散张力成像 (DTI) 和形成像 (DKI) 检测微观结构损伤.
- 标准模型成像 (SMI) 从dMRI提供了生物学上可解释的参数.
研究的目的:
- 评估临床上可行的dMRI指标是否与体积和病变测量之外的MS残疾相关.
- 为了确定正常出现的白质 (NAWM) 中的微观结构损伤是否有助于MS相关的残疾.
- 评估SMI参数的附加值,以了解MS病理生理学.
主要方法:
- 在92名多发性硬化患者的横截面研究中,使用3TMRI和多dMRI协议.
- 分析包括大脑体积,病变负载和dMRI指标 (DTI-RD,DKI-RK,SMI-f,SMI-p2).
- 使用EDSS,MSFC,9HPT,SDMT和疾病持续时间评估的临床结果;分析经过调整以考虑混因素和重复排除病变.
主要成果:
- dMRI指标显示与临床测量有广泛的关联,在病变排除后仍存在,涉及NAWM损伤.
- 特定的dMRI指标与不同的功能结果相关:9HPT与皮质脊髓管/光学辐射,MSFC与脑干/光学辐射.
- EDSS与指导管道扩散和下损伤负荷相关;疾病持续时间与灰质缩和指导管纤维分散相关.
结论:
- dMRI检测到NAWM损伤有助于MS的功能障碍,独立于缩和病变.
- SMI参数 (f,p2) 提供了轴突损失,脱和炎症的特异性.
- 结合扩散,体积和病变指标的多式成像对于MS监测和分层非常有价值.
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