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Microstructural white matter alterations and hippocampal volumes are associated with cognitive deficits in craniopharyngioma

Fjalldal, S. LU ; Follin, C. LU ; Svärd, D. LU ; Rylander, L. LU orcid ; Gabery, S. LU ; Petersén LU ; van Westen, D. LU orcid ; Sundgren, P. C. LU orcid ; Björkman-Burtscher, I. M. LU and Lätt, J. LU , et al. (2018) In European Journal of Endocrinology 178(6). p.577-587
Abstract

CONTEXT: Patients with craniopharyngioma (CP) and hypothalamic lesions (HL) have cognitive deficits. Which neural pathways are affected is unknown.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there is a relationship between microstructural white matter (WM) alterations detected with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and cognition in adults with childhood-onset CP.

DESIGN: A cross-sectional study with a median follow-up time of 22 (6-49) years after operation.

SETTING: The South Medical Region of Sweden (2.5 million inhabitants).

PARTICIPANTS: Included were 41 patients (24 women, ≥17 years) surgically treated for childhood-onset CP between 1958-2010 and 32 controls with similar age and gender distributions. HL was found in 23... (More)

CONTEXT: Patients with craniopharyngioma (CP) and hypothalamic lesions (HL) have cognitive deficits. Which neural pathways are affected is unknown.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there is a relationship between microstructural white matter (WM) alterations detected with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and cognition in adults with childhood-onset CP.

DESIGN: A cross-sectional study with a median follow-up time of 22 (6-49) years after operation.

SETTING: The South Medical Region of Sweden (2.5 million inhabitants).

PARTICIPANTS: Included were 41 patients (24 women, ≥17 years) surgically treated for childhood-onset CP between 1958-2010 and 32 controls with similar age and gender distributions. HL was found in 23 patients.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Subjects performed cognitive tests and magnetic resonance imaging, and images were analyzed using DTI of uncinate fasciculus, fornix, cingulum, hippocampus and hypothalamus as well as hippocampal volumetry.

RESULTS: Right uncinate fasciculus was significantly altered (P ≤ 0.01). Microstructural WM alterations in left ventral cingulum were significantly associated with worse performance in visual episodic memory, explaining approximately 50% of the variation. Alterations in dorsal cingulum were associated with worse performance in immediate, delayed recall and recognition, explaining 26-38% of the variation, and with visuospatial ability and executive function, explaining 19-29%. Patients who had smaller hippocampal volume had worse general knowledge (P = 0.028), and microstructural WM alterations in hippocampus were associated with a decline in general knowledge and episodic visual memory.

CONCLUSIONS: A structure to function relationship is suggested between microstructural WM alterations in cingulum and in hippocampus with cognitive deficits in CP.

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European Journal of Endocrinology
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178
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11 pages
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Society of the European Journal of Endocrinology
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1479-683X
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10.1530/EJE-18-0081
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English
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  author       = {{Fjalldal, S. and Follin, C. and Svärd, D. and Rylander, L. and Gabery, S. and Petersén and van Westen, D. and Sundgren, P. C. and Björkman-Burtscher, I. M. and Lätt, J. and Ekman, B. and Johanson, A. and Erfurth, E. M.}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{06}},
  number       = {{6}},
  pages        = {{577--587}},
  publisher    = {{Society of the European Journal of Endocrinology}},
  series       = {{European Journal of Endocrinology}},
  title        = {{Microstructural white matter alterations and hippocampal volumes are associated with cognitive deficits in craniopharyngioma}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EJE-18-0081}},
  doi          = {{10.1530/EJE-18-0081}},
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