Structural brain abnormalities in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma: A study with 3T MR imaging

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 545-554

  Chen, Wei W ^a,b   Wang, Ningli ^a   Cai, Suping ^c   Fang, Zhijia ^b   Yu, Man ^b   Wu, Qizhu ^b   Tang, Li ^b   Guo, Bo ^b   Feng, Yuliang ^b   Jonas, Jost B ^d   Chen, Xiaoming ^b   Liu, Xuyang ^c   Gong, Qiyong ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84874692453     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9893     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Quigley HA. Open-angle glaucoma. N Engl J Med. 1993;328: 1097-1106.
2. Chaturvedi N, Hedley-Whyte ET, Dreyer EB. Lateral geniculate nucleus in glaucoma. Am J Ophthalmol. 1993;116:182-188.
3. Yücel YH, Zhang Q, Gupta N, Kaufman PL, Weinreb RN. Loss of neurons in magnocellular and parvocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus in glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:378-384.
4. Yücel YH, Zhang Q, Weinreb RN, Kaufman PL, Gupta N. Atrophy of relay neurons in magno-and parvocellular layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus in experimental glaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2001;42:3216-3222.
5. Luthra A, Gupta N, Kaufman PL, Weinreb RN, Yücel YH. Oxidative injury by peroxynitrite in neural and vascular tissue of the lateral geniculate nucleus in experimental glaucoma. Exp Eye Res. 2005;80:43-49.
6. Gupta N, Ang LC, Nöel de Tilly L, Bidaisee L, Yücel YH. Human glaucoma and neural degeneration in intracranial optic nerve, lateral geniculate nucleus, and visual cortex. Br J Ophthalmol. 2006;90:674-678.
7. Gupta N, Ly T, Zhang Q, Kaufman PL, Weinreb RN, Yücel YH. Chronic ocular hypertension induces dendrite pathology in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the brain. Exp Eye Res. 2007; 84:176-184.
8. Sasaoka M, Nakamura K, Shimazawa M, Ito Y, Araie M, Hara H. Changes in visual fields and lateral geniculate nucleus in monkey laser-induced high intraocular pressure model. Exp Eye Res. 2008;86:770-782.
9. Gupta N, Greenberg G, de Tilly LN, Gray B, Polemidiotis M. Atrophy of the lateral geniculate nucleus in human glaucoma detected by magnetic resonance imaging. Br J Ophthalmol. 2009;93:56-60.
10. Ito Y, Shimazawa M, Chen YN, et al. Morphological changes in the visual pathway induced by experimental glaucoma in Japanese monkeys. Exp Eye Res. 2009;89:246-255.
11. Garaci FG, Bolacchi F, Cerulli A, et al. Optic nerve and optic radiation neurodegeneration in patients with glaucoma: in vivo analysis with 3-T diffusion-tensor MR imaging. Radiology. 2009;252:496-501.
12. Kitsos G, Zikou AK, Bagli E, Kosta P, Argyropoulou MI. Conventional MRI and magnetisation transfer imaging of the brain and optic pathway in primary open-angle glaucoma. Br J Radiol. 2009;82:896-900.
13. Boucard CC, Hernowo AT, Maguire RP, et al. Changes in cortical gray matter density associated with long-standing retinal visual field defects. Brain. 2009;132:1898-1906.
14. Liu X, Chen X, Wang N. Is glaucoma a central nervous system disease: re-evaluation. Zhonghua Yan Ke Za Zhi. 2010;46: 1062-1065.
15. Qing G, Zhang S, Wang B, Wang N. Functional MRI signal changes in primary visual cortex corresponding to the central normal visual field of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2010;51:4627-4634.
16. Engelhorn T, Haider S, Michelson G, Doerfler A. A new semiquantitative approach for analysing 3T diffusion tensor imaging of optic fibres and its clinical evaluation in glaucoma. Acad Radiol. 2010;17:1313-1316.
17. Dai H, Mu K, Qi J, et al. Assessment of lateral geniculate nucleus atrophy with 3T MR imaging and correlation with clinical stage of glaucoma. Am J Neuroradiol. 2011;32:1347-1353.
18. Engelhorn T, Michelson G, Waerntges S, Struffert T, Haider S, Doerfler A. Diffusion tensor imaging detects rarefaction of optic radiation in glaucoma patients. Acad Radiol. 2011;18: 764-769.
19. Engelhorn T, Michelson G, Waerntges S, et al. A new approach to assess intracranial white matter abnormalities in glaucoma patients: changes of fractional anisotropy detected by 3T diffusion tensor imaging. Acad Radiol. 2012;19:485-488.
20. Shimazawa M, Ito Y, Inokuchi Y, et al. An alteration in the lateral geniculate nucleus of experimental glaucoma monkeys: in vivo positron emission tomography imaging of glial activation. PLoS One. 2012;7:e30526.
21. Zhang YQ, Li J, Xu L, et al. Anterior visual pathway assessment by magnetic resonance imaging in normal-pressure glaucoma. Acta Ophthalmol. 2012;90:e295-e302.
22. Michelson G, Engelhorn T, Warntges S, et al. DTI parameters of axonal integrity and demyelination of the optic radiation correlate with glaucoma indices. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2013;251:243-253.
23. Zikou AK, Kitsos G, Tzarouchi LC, Astrakas L, Alexiou GA, Argyropoulou MI. Voxel-based morphometry and diffusion tensor imaging of the optic pathway in primary open-angle glaucoma: a preliminary study. Am J Neuroradiol. 2012;33: 128-134.
24. Ashburner J, Friston KJ. Voxel-based morphometry-the methods. Neuroimage. 2000;11:805-821.
25. Jayakumar PN, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN, Janakiramaiah N, Keshavan MS. Optimized voxel-based morphometry of gray matter volume in first-episode, antipsychotic-naive schizophrenia. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2005;29:587-591.
26. Hickman SJ, Toosy AT, Jones SJ, et al. Serial magnetization transfer imaging in acute optic neuritis. Brain. 2004;127:692-700.
27. Good CD, Johnsrude IS, Ashburner J, Henson RN, Friston KJ, Frackowiak RS. A voxel-based morphometric study of ageing in 465 normal adult human brains. Neuroimage. 2001;14:21-36.
28. Garaci FG, Bolacchi F, Cerulli A, et al. Optic nerve and optic radiation neurodegeneration in patients with glaucoma: in vivo analysis with 3-T diffusion-tensor MR imaging. Radiology. 2009;252:496-501.
29. Maguire EA, Gadian DG, Johnsrude IS, et al. Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000;97:4398-4403.
30. Mechelli A, Crinion J, Noppeney U, et al. Neurolinguistics: structural plasticity in the bilingual brain. Nature. 2004;431: 757.
31. Engel SA, Glover GH, Wandell BA. Retinotopic organization in human visual cortex and the spatial precision of functional MRI. Cerebral Cortex. 1997;7:181-192.
32. Dai H, Morelli JN, Ai F, et al. Resting-state functional MRI: Functional connectivity analysis of the visual cortex in primary open-angle glaucoma patients [published online ahead of print March 31, 2012]. Hum Brain Mapp. doi:10.1002/hbm.22079.
33. Johnson PB, Ferraina S, Bianchi L, Caminiti R. Cortical networks for visual reaching: physiological and anatomical organization of frontal and parietal lobe arm regions. Cereb Cortex. 1996;6:102-119.
34. Stoeckel C, Gough PM, Watkins KE, Devlin JT. Supramarginal gyrus involvement in visual word recognition. Cortex. 2009; 45:1091-1096.
35. Steinmetz MA, Constantinidis C. Neurophysiological evidence for a role of posterior parietal cortex in redirecting visual attention. Cereb Cortex. 1995;5:448-456.
36. Cavanna AE, Trimble MR. The precuneus: a review of its functional anatomy and behavioural correlates. Brain. 2006; 129:564-583.
37. Horwitz B, Rumsey JM, Donohue BC. Functional connectivity of the angular gyrus in normal reading and dyslexia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998;95:8939-8944.
38. Iwata F, Patronas NJ, Caruso RC, et al. Association of visual field, cup-disc ratio, and magnetic resonance imaging of optic chiasm. Arch Ophthalmol. 1997;115:729-732.
39. Numano T, Homma K, Hirose T. Diffusion-weighted threedimensional MP-RAGE MR imaging. Magn Reson Imaging. 2005;23:463-468.