PURPOSE: Cognitive dysfunction is common in neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Memory is a commonly affected cognitive domain. Clinically, however, it is difficult to detect memory deficits. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether normal controls and SLE patients with and without memory deficit differ in terms of white-matter integrity. METHODS: Twenty SLE patients with memory deficit were compared to 47 SLE patients without memory deficit and 22 sex-, age-, and education-matched control individuals. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was performed in a 1.5-Tesla scanner. For tract-based spatial statistics analysis, a white-matter skeleton was created. A permutation-based inference with 5000 permutations with a threshold of p < 0.05 was used to identify abnormalities in fractional anisotropy (FA). The mean diffusivity (MD), radial diffusivity (RD) and axial diffusivity (AD) were also projected onto the mean FA skeleton. RESULTS: Compared to controls, SLE patients with and without memory deficit had decreased FA in: bilateral anterior thalamic radiation, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, superior longitudinal fasciculus, uncinate fasciculus, corticospinal tract, genu, and body of the corpus callosum. SLE patients with and without memory deficit also presented increased MD and RD values compared to controls in these areas. Comparison between SLE patients with and without memory deficit did not present significant differences in DTI parameters. CONCLUSION: DTI can detect extensive abnormalities in the normal-appearing white matter of SLE patients with and without memory deficit, compared to controls. However, there was no difference, in terms of white-matter integrity, between the groups of SLE patients.
PURPOSE:Cognitive dysfunction is common in neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Memory is a commonly affected cognitive domain. Clinically, however, it is difficult to detect memory deficits. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether normal controls and SLEpatients with and without memory deficit differ in terms of white-matter integrity. METHODS: Twenty SLEpatients with memory deficit were compared to 47 SLEpatients without memory deficit and 22 sex-, age-, and education-matched control individuals. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was performed in a 1.5-Tesla scanner. For tract-based spatial statistics analysis, a white-matter skeleton was created. A permutation-based inference with 5000 permutations with a threshold of p < 0.05 was used to identify abnormalities in fractional anisotropy (FA). The mean diffusivity (MD), radial diffusivity (RD) and axial diffusivity (AD) were also projected onto the mean FA skeleton. RESULTS: Compared to controls, SLEpatients with and without memory deficit had decreased FA in: bilateral anterior thalamic radiation, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, superior longitudinal fasciculus, uncinate fasciculus, corticospinal tract, genu, and body of the corpus callosum. SLEpatients with and without memory deficit also presented increased MD and RD values compared to controls in these areas. Comparison between SLEpatients with and without memory deficit did not present significant differences in DTI parameters. CONCLUSION: DTI can detect extensive abnormalities in the normal-appearing white matter of SLEpatients with and without memory deficit, compared to controls. However, there was no difference, in terms of white-matter integrity, between the groups of SLEpatients.
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