The cerebellar white matter lesions in dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy

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Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG nucleotide repeat expansion in atrophin 1. A previous report described cerebellar white matter lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in elderly-onset DRPLA patients, but this finding has not been fully investigated in a total population of DRPLA patients, including juvenile or early-adult onset patients. Herein, we attempted to determine the frequency, distribution pattern, and features of the cerebellar white matter lesions in 30 consecutive DRPLA patients. We also assessed the relationships between the cerebellar white matter lesions and clinical parameters and other MRI findings. The cerebellar white matter lesions were found in 43% of the 30 DRPLA patients, and in 70% of the late adult-onset DRPLA patients. In approx. Two-thirds of the patients with cerebellar white matter lesions, the lesions were localized in the paravermal area (paravermal lesions). Multiple logistic regression analyses revealed that the Fazekas grade of 'cerebral' white matter lesions was independently associated with 'cerebellar' white matter lesions. In conclusion, cerebellar white matter lesions are one of the distinctive MRI features in DRPLA patients, especially in patients with older age at onset. Cerebellar white matter lesions, as well as cerebral white matter lesions, might originate from the disease process of DRPLA itself, and they often have a characteristic distribution of paravermal lesions.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:416

Enthalten in:

Journal of the neurological sciences - 416(2020) vom: 15. Sept., Seite 117040

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sugiyama, Atsuhiko [VerfasserIn]
Sato, Noriko [VerfasserIn]
Kimura, Yukio [VerfasserIn]
Fujii, Hiroyuki [VerfasserIn]
Shigemoto, Yoko [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Fumio [VerfasserIn]
Tanei, Zen-Ichi [VerfasserIn]
Saito, Yuko [VerfasserIn]
Sasaki, Masayuki [VerfasserIn]
Takahashi, Yuji [VerfasserIn]
Matsuda, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Kuwabara, Satoshi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

DRPLA
Fazekas grade
Journal Article
MRI
Paravermal lesion
Peridentate lesion
White matter lesion

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Date Completed 14.05.2021

Date Revised 14.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jns.2020.117040

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NLM312871317