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Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Deep Brain Structure Changes in Early Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Various Sleep Disorders
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive age-related movement disorder caused by dopaminergic neuron loss in the substantia nigra. Diffusion-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies—namely, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)—have been performed in the context of PD, either with or without the inv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025175/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35447994 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040463 |
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author | Jiang, Yanyan An, Hedi Xi, Qian Yang, Weiting Xie, Hongrong Li, Yang Huang, Dongya |
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description | Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive age-related movement disorder caused by dopaminergic neuron loss in the substantia nigra. Diffusion-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies—namely, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)—have been performed in the context of PD, either with or without the involvement of sleep disorders (SDs), to deepen our understanding of cerebral microstructural alterations. Analyzing the clinical characteristics and neuroimaging features of SDs in early PD patients is beneficial for early diagnosis and timely invention. In our present study, we enrolled 36 early PD patients (31 patients with SDs and 5 patients without) and 22 healthy controls. Different types of SDs were assessed using the Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder Questionnaire—Hong Kong, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, International Restless Legs Scale and PD Sleep Scale-2. Brain MRI examinations were carried out in all the participants, and a region-of-interest (ROI) analysis was used to determine the DTI-based fractional anisotropy (FA) values in the substantia nigra (SN), thalamus (Thal) and hypothalamus (HT). The results illustrate that SDs showed a higher prevalence in the early PD patients than in the healthy controls (86.11% vs. 27.27%). Early PD patients with nighttime problems (NPs) had longer courses of PD than those without (5.097 ± 2.925 vs. 2.200 ± 1.095; p < 0.05), and these patients with excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) or restless legs syndrome (RLS) had more advanced Hoehn and Yahr stages (HY stage) than those without (1.522 ± 0.511 and 1.526 ± 0.513, respectively; both p < 0.05). Compared with the early PD patients without probable rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (pRBD), those with pRBD had longer courses, more advanced HY stages and worse motor and non-motor symptoms of PD (course(years), 3.385 ± 1.895 vs. 5.435 ± 3.160; HY stages, 1.462 ± 0.477 vs. 1.848 ± 0.553; UPDRS, 13.538 ± 7.333 vs. 21.783 ± 10.766; UPDRS, 6.538 ± 1.898 vs. 7.957 ± 2.345; all p < 0.05). In addition, the different number of SD types in early PD patients was significantly inversely associated with the severity of damage in the SN and HT. All of the early PD patients with various SDs had injuries in the SN, in whom the damage was more pronounced in patients with NP than those without. Moreover, early PD patients with NP, RLS or pRBD had worse degrees of HT damage than those without. The current study demonstrated the pathophysiological features and neuroimaging changes in early PD patients with various types of sleep disorders, which will help in early diagnosis and therapy. |
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spelling | pubmed-90251752022-04-23 Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Deep Brain Structure Changes in Early Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Various Sleep Disorders Jiang, Yanyan An, Hedi Xi, Qian Yang, Weiting Xie, Hongrong Li, Yang Huang, Dongya Brain Sci Article Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive age-related movement disorder caused by dopaminergic neuron loss in the substantia nigra. Diffusion-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies—namely, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)—have been performed in the context of PD, either with or without the involvement of sleep disorders (SDs), to deepen our understanding of cerebral microstructural alterations. Analyzing the clinical characteristics and neuroimaging features of SDs in early PD patients is beneficial for early diagnosis and timely invention. In our present study, we enrolled 36 early PD patients (31 patients with SDs and 5 patients without) and 22 healthy controls. Different types of SDs were assessed using the Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder Questionnaire—Hong Kong, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, International Restless Legs Scale and PD Sleep Scale-2. Brain MRI examinations were carried out in all the participants, and a region-of-interest (ROI) analysis was used to determine the DTI-based fractional anisotropy (FA) values in the substantia nigra (SN), thalamus (Thal) and hypothalamus (HT). The results illustrate that SDs showed a higher prevalence in the early PD patients than in the healthy controls (86.11% vs. 27.27%). Early PD patients with nighttime problems (NPs) had longer courses of PD than those without (5.097 ± 2.925 vs. 2.200 ± 1.095; p < 0.05), and these patients with excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) or restless legs syndrome (RLS) had more advanced Hoehn and Yahr stages (HY stage) than those without (1.522 ± 0.511 and 1.526 ± 0.513, respectively; both p < 0.05). Compared with the early PD patients without probable rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (pRBD), those with pRBD had longer courses, more advanced HY stages and worse motor and non-motor symptoms of PD (course(years), 3.385 ± 1.895 vs. 5.435 ± 3.160; HY stages, 1.462 ± 0.477 vs. 1.848 ± 0.553; UPDRS, 13.538 ± 7.333 vs. 21.783 ± 10.766; UPDRS, 6.538 ± 1.898 vs. 7.957 ± 2.345; all p < 0.05). In addition, the different number of SD types in early PD patients was significantly inversely associated with the severity of damage in the SN and HT. All of the early PD patients with various SDs had injuries in the SN, in whom the damage was more pronounced in patients with NP than those without. Moreover, early PD patients with NP, RLS or pRBD had worse degrees of HT damage than those without. The current study demonstrated the pathophysiological features and neuroimaging changes in early PD patients with various types of sleep disorders, which will help in early diagnosis and therapy. MDPI 2022-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9025175/ /pubmed/35447994 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040463 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jiang, Yanyan An, Hedi Xi, Qian Yang, Weiting Xie, Hongrong Li, Yang Huang, Dongya Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Deep Brain Structure Changes in Early Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Various Sleep Disorders |
title | Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Deep Brain Structure Changes in Early Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Various Sleep Disorders |
title_full | Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Deep Brain Structure Changes in Early Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Various Sleep Disorders |
title_fullStr | Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Deep Brain Structure Changes in Early Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Various Sleep Disorders |
title_full_unstemmed | Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Deep Brain Structure Changes in Early Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Various Sleep Disorders |
title_short | Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Deep Brain Structure Changes in Early Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Various Sleep Disorders |
title_sort | diffusion tensor imaging reveals deep brain structure changes in early parkinson’s disease patients with various sleep disorders |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025175/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35447994 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040463 |
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