Age at symptom onset influences cortical thinning distribution and survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Purpose The lifetime risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) increases in the elderly, and greater age at symptom onset has been identified as a negative prognostic factor in the disease. However, the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are still poorly investigated. We hypothesized that older age at symptom onset would have been associated with greater extra-motor cortical damage contributing to worse prognosis, so we explored the relationship between age at symptom onset, cortical thinning (CT) distribution, and clinical markers of disease progression. Methods We included 26 ALS patients and 29 healthy controls with T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). FreeSurfer 6.0 was used to identify regions of cortical atrophy (CA) in ALS, and to relate age at symptom onset to CT distribution. Linear regression analyses were then used to investigate whether MRI metrics of age-related damage were predictive of clinical progression. MRI results were corrected using the Monte Carlo simulation method, and regression analyses were further corrected for disease duration. Results ALS patients exhibited significant CA mainly encompassing motor regions, but also involving the cuneus bilaterally and the right superior parietal cortex (p < 0.05). Older age at symptom onset was selectively associated with greater extra-motor (frontotemporal) CT, including pars opercularis bilaterally, left middle temporal, and parahippocampal cortices (p < 0.05), and CT of these regions was predictive of shorter survival (p = 0.004, p = 0.03). Conclusion More severe frontotemporal CT contributes to shorter survival in older ALS patients. These findings have the potential to unravel the neurobiological mechanisms linking older age at symptom onset to worse prognosis in ALS..

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:63

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Neuroradiology - 63(2021), 9 vom: 04. März, Seite 1481-1487

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Englisch

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Ferraro, Pilar M. [VerfasserIn]
Cabona, Corrado [VerfasserIn]
Meo, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Rolla-Bigliani, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Castellan, Lucio [VerfasserIn]
Pardini, Matteo [VerfasserIn]
Inglese, Matilde [VerfasserIn]
Caponnetto, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Roccatagliata, Luca [VerfasserIn]

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Age at onset
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Cortical thinning
Prognosis
Structural magnetic resonance imaging

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10.1007/s00234-021-02681-3

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