Gray Matter Volume Changes in Patients With Acute Eye Pain : A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study

PURPOSE: The present study was attempted to compare the differences in gray matter volume (GMV) between the acute eye pain (EP) patients and the healthy controls (HCs) using voxel-based morphometry (VBM), and to explore the relationship with clinical features and behavioral performance.

METHODS: A total of 24 patients (17 males, 7 females) with acute EP and 24 (17 males, 7 females) age-, sex-, and education-matched HCs were recruited from the Ophthalmology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans were conducted in all subjects. We analyzed the original three-dimensional (3D) T1 brain images by VBM and compared the GMV values with the HCs. The acute EP patients can be distinguished from the HCs by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

RESULTS: Compared with HCs, the acute EP patients had significantly lower GMV values in the brain regions of the left cerebellum posterior lobe, the left limbic lobe, the right insula, the left insula, the left thalamus, the left caudate, and the right cuneus. In addition, the WMV values of the whole brain in acute EP patients decreased slightly.

CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrated that the acute EP patients showed an abnormal reduction in GMV in some brain regions, which might provide valuable information for further exploration of underlying neural mechanisms. These abnormal brain regions may reflect the functional disorders of acute EP patients in somatosensory, motor, cognitive functions, and so on.

TRANSLATIONAL RELEVANCE: The VBM study provides a diagnostic method for identifying the cause of acute EP, additionally, a novel direction was presented for further exploration of underlying neural mechanisms of acute EP.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Translational vision science & technology - 8(2019), 1 vom: 28. Jan., Seite 1

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lan, Dong-Yi [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Pei-Wen [VerfasserIn]
He, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Qian-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Su, Ting [VerfasserIn]
Li, Biao [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Wen-Qing [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Yan-Chang [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Qing [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Jian-Wen [VerfasserIn]
Li, Qing-Hai [VerfasserIn]
Shao, Yi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Eye pain
Gray matter volume
Journal Article
Voxel-based morphometry

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Date Revised 31.03.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1167/tvst.8.1.1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM292558503