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Enlarged perivascular spaces and florbetapir uptake in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage

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Purpose

Enlarged perivascular spaces in the centrum semiovale (CSO-EPVS) have been linked to cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). To get insight into the underlying mechanisms of this association, we investigated the relationship between amyloid-β deposition assessed by 18F-florbetapir PET and CSO-EPVS in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).

Methods

We prospectively enrolled 18 patients with lobar ICH (suggesting CAA) and 20 with deep ICH (suggesting hypertensive angiopathy), who underwent brain MRI and 18F-florbetapir PET. EPVS were assessed on MRI using a validated 4-point visual rating scale in the centrum semiovale and the basal ganglia (BG-EPVS). PET images were visually assessed, blind to clinical and MRI data. We evaluated the association between florbetapir PET positivity and high degree (score> 2) of CSO-EPVS and BG-EPVS.

Results

High CSO-EPVS degree was more common in patients with lobar ICH than deep ICH (55.6% vs. 20.0%; p = 0.02). Eight (57.1%) patients with high CSO-EPVS degree had a positive florbetapir PET compared with 4 (16.7%) with low CSO-EPVS degree (p = 0.01). In contrast, prevalence of florbetapir PET positivity was similar between patients with high vs. low BG-EPVS. In multivariable analysis adjusted for age, hypertension, and MRI markers of CAA, florbetapir PET positivity (odds ratio (OR) 6.44, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.32–38.93; p = 0.03) was independently associated with high CSO-EPVS degree.

Conclusions

Among patients with spontaneous ICH, high degree of CSO-EPVS but not BG-EPVS is associated with amyloid PET positivity. The findings provide further evidence that CSO-EPVS are markers of vascular amyloid burden that may be useful in diagnosing CAA.

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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank the promoter of this study, CHU Toulouse.

Funding

This study was funded by Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Toulouse Teaching Hospital (CHU) (local grant 2011 to N.R.) and the Institut des Sciences et du Cerveau de Toulouse. Avid Radiopharmaceuticals provided funding for the PET scanning and supplied the florbetapir precursor. This work has been in part supported by a grant from the French National Agency for Research called “Investissements d’Avenir” No. ANR-11-LABEX-0018-01. This work was supported by CHU Toulouse for regulatory and ethical approval and compliance. Nicolas Raposo was supported by a Fulbright Scholarship and received an Arthur Sachs Scholarship from the Harvard University Committee on General Scholarship and a Philippe Foundation research grant.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Hôpital Pierre-Paul Riquet, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Place Baylac, 31059, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

    Nicolas Raposo, Mélanie Planton, Jean François Albucher, Lionel Calviere, Alain Viguier, François Chollet, Jean Marc Olivot & Jérémie Pariente

  2. Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France

    Nicolas Raposo, Mélanie Planton, Pierre Payoux, Patrice Péran, Jean François Albucher, Lionel Calviere, Alain Viguier, Anne Hitzel, François Chollet, Jean Marc Olivot, Fabrice Bonneville & Jérémie Pariente

  3. Department of Epidemiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Vanessa Rousseau

  4. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hôpital Pierre-Paul Riquet, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Pierre Payoux & Anne Hitzel

  5. Department of Neuroradiology, Hôpital Pierre-Paul Riquet, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Fabrice Bonneville

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Dr. Payoux reports personal fees from Lilly/Avid and from GE Heathcare. Dr. Albucher received consulting fees from Bayer and speaker honoraria from Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer, and Pfizer. Dr. Calviere received consulting fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and travel grant from Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer. Dr. Chollet served as a consultant for Institut de Recherche Pierre Fabre and has received speaker honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Boston Scientific. Dr. Olivot received consulting fees from AstraZeneca, Servier, and Boston Scientific and speaker honoraria from Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Pariente is an associate editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and has received speaker honoraria from Lilly, Roche, and Novartis. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Raposo, N., Planton, M., Payoux, P. et al. Enlarged perivascular spaces and florbetapir uptake in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 46, 2339–2347 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-04441-1

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