Souvik Sen1, Hongyu An2, Prema Menezes3, Jonathan Oakes3, Joseph Eron3, Weili Lin4, Kevin Robertson5, William Powers5. 1. Department of Neurology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Electronic address: Souvik.Sen@uscmed.sc.edu. 2. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. 3. Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 4. Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 5. Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals are at high risk for ischemic stroke. To investigate the physiological basis for this risk, we used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) in treatment-naive asymptomatic HIV-infected subjects and controls. METHODS: In treatment-naive asymptomatic HIV-infected subjects and age-, gender-, and race-matched controls, OEF was measured by MRI asymmetric spin-echo echo-planar imaging sequences and CBF was measured by MRI pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling. RESULTS: Twenty-six treatment-naive HIV-infected subjects and 27 age-, gender-, race-matched controls participated. Whole-brain, gray matter (GM), and white matter OEF were not different between the groups (all P > .70). Unexpectedly, HIV-infected subjects had significantly higher CBF in cortical GM (72.9 ± 16.2 mL/100 g/min versus 63.9 ± 9.9 mL/100 g/min; P = .01) but not in subcortical GM (P = .25). CONCLUSIONS: The observed increase in cortical GM CBF in treatment-naive HIV-infected subjects is unexpected, contrary to CBF decreases reported in HIV-infected subjects on treatment, and may represent an initial increase in metabolic activity due to an HIV-mediated inflammation.
BACKGROUND:Humanimmunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals are at high risk for ischemic stroke. To investigate the physiological basis for this risk, we used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) in treatment-naive asymptomatic HIV-infected subjects and controls. METHODS: In treatment-naive asymptomatic HIV-infected subjects and age-, gender-, and race-matched controls, OEF was measured by MRI asymmetric spin-echo echo-planar imaging sequences and CBF was measured by MRI pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling. RESULTS: Twenty-six treatment-naive HIV-infected subjects and 27 age-, gender-, race-matched controls participated. Whole-brain, gray matter (GM), and white matter OEF were not different between the groups (all P > .70). Unexpectedly, HIV-infected subjects had significantly higher CBF in cortical GM (72.9 ± 16.2 mL/100 g/min versus 63.9 ± 9.9 mL/100 g/min; P = .01) but not in subcortical GM (P = .25). CONCLUSIONS: The observed increase in cortical GM CBF in treatment-naive HIV-infected subjects is unexpected, contrary to CBF decreases reported in HIV-infected subjects on treatment, and may represent an initial increase in metabolic activity due to an HIV-mediated inflammation.
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