Volumetric distribution of perivascular space in relation to mild cognitive impairment

Autor: Giuseppe Barisano, Wendy J. Mack, Ryan P. Cabeen, Haoyu Lan, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Malcolm S Crawford, Jeiran Choupan, Helena C. Chui, Nasim Sheikh-Bahaei, John M. Ringman, Farshid Sepehrband, Kirsten M. Lynch, Arthur W. Toga
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Neurobiol Aging
ISSN: 0197-4580
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.12.010
Popis: Vascular contributions to early cognitive decline are increasingly recognized, prompting further investigation into the nature of related changes in perivascular spaces (PVS). Using magnetic resonance imaging, we show that, compared to a cognitively normal sample, individuals with early cognitive dysfunction have altered PVS presence and distribution, irrespective of Amyloid-β. Surprisingly, we noted lower PVS presence in the anterosuperior medial temporal lobe (1.29 times lower PVS volume fraction in cognitively impaired individuals compared with those unimpaired, p < 0.0001), which was associated with neurofibrillary tau tangle deposition in the right entorhinal cortex (beta (SE) = −0.98 (0.4); p = 0.014), one of the hallmarks of early Alzheimer’s disease pathology. We also observed higher PVS volume fraction in centrum semi-ovale of the white matter, but only in female participants (1.47 times higher PVS volume fraction in cognitively impaired individuals compared with those unimpaired, p = 0.0011). Furthermore, we observed PVS changes in participants with history of hypertension (higher PVS volume fraction in the white matter and lower PVS volume fraction in the anterosuperior medial temporal lobe). Our results suggest that anatomically specific alteration of the PVS is an early neuroimaging feature of cognitive impairment in aging adults, which is differentially manifested in female.
Databáze: OpenAIRE